Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

We’ve been busy shipping new features and enhancements to help you monitor critical services more effectively, investigate incidents faster, and customize your StatusGator experience. This month’s updates include historical outage reports, our new Datadog integration, expanded monitoring coverage in Asia Pacific, improved email branding options, and performance upgrades for monitor metrics. We also crossed a major milestone with more than 8,000 services now monitored by StatusGator.

In May 2026, StatusGator detected 854 Early Warning Signals across SaaS, cloud, developer, and infrastructure services. Of those incidents, 695 were never acknowledged by providers, while 159 were eventually confirmed on official status pages. Throughout the month, StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals continued to surface emerging outages before many providers published updates, giving teams valuable time to investigate and respond.

We’ve rolled out a small but useful improvement to the Status Page → General settings. Previously, the Support contact field in the footer only accepted: Based on feedback from our users, the field now also supports phone numbers. Status pages in StatusGator already offer a variety of customization options – including custom branding, layouts, monitor visibility, subscriber settings, and privacy controls.

Your Datadog dashboards tell you what’s happening inside your infrastructure. StatusGator helps you understand what’s happening with the vendors and services your business depends on. Now you can bring both together.

StatusGator now monitors more than 8,000 services now! From cloud platforms and AI tools to communication apps, payment providers, developer infrastructure, and business software, we continue expanding our monitoring coverage every day so teams can track everything that matters in one place.

We’ve rolled out an update to the Monitor metrics view to improve both performance and visibility into response time trends for website and ping monitors.

In Q1 2026, we introduced a new SolarWinds Observability integration, started preparing the upcoming Status API for release, and spent time learning directly from MSPs at CloudFest 2026 about the operational challenges shaping modern incident communication.

On May 22, 2026, merchants using Shopify experienced a brief but widespread disruption that affected access to product pages, collections, and administrative tools. While the outage lasted less than an hour, it created immediate challenges for businesses that rely on Shopify to manage inventory, update products, and operate online stores. StatusGator detected the developing incident at 10:20 UTC using Early Warning Signals, 18 minutes before Shopify officially acknowledged the outage at 10:38 UTC.

An error budget is the acceptable amount of unreliability permitted by your SLO over a defined time window. It is not a target. It is not a stretch goal. It is a hard ceiling that, when breached, should trigger a pre-agreed organizational response — feature freezes, postmortems, or infrastructure investment. The formula is blunt: Error Budget = 1 - SLO Target Error Budget (time) = (1 - SLO Target) × Window Duration For a 30-day window: That last number should make you uncomfortable.