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In the spirit of highlighting the importance of Status Pages and how they impact users, we gathered actual stories from various Uptime.com employees. A time in their lives where they landed on a company’s status page (outside of work) to investigate problems they were experiencing. Enjoy!

Now you can get your alerts on incidents anywhere you want! It's very probable that you already know Zapier, but if you don't know it, here's a brief intro. Zapier is one of everyone's favorite tools on the internet. It connects everything! You can easily connect systems that don't speak directly with each other or automate repetitive tasks with no code. That's one of the reasons we decided to create an integration. It was the easiest way to connect IsDown with the world 😁.

Not all status updates are published because of an incident or scheduled maintenance event. Sometimes, IT teams simply want to cast an informational status update without affecting the overall status.

StatusGator is a status data platform: We ingest data from almost 2,000 services by extracting and normalizing their official, public status page information. To monitor a service, you simply search through our list of thousands and its added to your dashboard. From there, you can filter to specific components of a service, such as products or regions. Now, you can subscribe to the same service more than once on a single StatusGator dashboard. What does this mean in practice?

Next to a large collection of checks, Oh Dear offers the ability to easily create beautiful status pages. This way, you can communicate the status of your sites and services to your users. Take a look at the Oh Dear powered status pages for Flare and Laravel. Today, we added the ability to view the status page as JSON (or XML if that is your thing). You just have to append /json (or /xml to the status page URL. So for the Laravel status page, you'll find the JSON at status.laravel.com/json.

With so much reliance on online services and applications these days, a status page is essential to a business, its support and IT teams. It’s a key component in your incident communication strategy. Communicating the status of your website or service to users (particularly customers) creates trust and keeps them updated—especially during downtimes. Plus, it saves you from sending out emails or using other time-consuming methods to provide status updates.

In the IT world, outages and service disruption are a fact of life. Stuff hits the fan… Stuff happens! And it can happen to any service provider – even the most well designed and managed SaaS applications and platforms. One of the reasons why stuff happens is failing to adhere to best practices. To minimize the potential for problems, here we run over some of the key points from the cloud platform management best practice playbook.

We’ve just released highly-requested feature for our public, aggregated status pages: Password protection. Now, StatusGator’s customizable, brandable, aggregated status pages can be protected behind a password. This feature is now available on our Venture plan. StatusGator is a status page aggregator. We make it easy to publish single page with the status of all your cloud vendors in one place.

Using Oh Dear you can create beautiful status pages. As from today, you can let your users also subscribe to updates on those status pages. In this blog post we'll tell you all about it.