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A Way Out of Email Hell: Statuspage for Incident Management

At eBay, we believe collaboration and communication are key to achieving our company goals. Come to this lightning talk to learn how we improved communication inside eBay using Statuspage as the main tool to announce maintenance and inform employees about incidents. This session will present Statuspage best practices to drastically reduce the amount of emails, Slack messages, and phone calls when things inevitably go wrong.

New Feature Spotlight:StatusKeeper welcomes SMS/text notifications to your hosted status page!

Email arrives constantly; when we’re in the office or “on the go”. More than occasionally a new email might be briefly overlooked if we’re working another task or it just gets lost in the “noise”. Whatever the case, they don’t always get the attention that an incoming text message might.

New Feature Spotlight: Notification Attachments

Continuing deeper exploration of some of our exciting new features, today I’ll be presenting Notification Attachments and demonstrating how your status page can, once again, hopefully make your job a little easier. We recently had a customer ask: “Is there a way to show a maintenance page instead of [just] an icon if the web services are down?”. Further investigation revealed he was looking for the ability to provide more information to his users regarding the nature of a system outage.

Pingdom & Custom Metrics now on Statuspal

We’re happy to announce the general availability of Pingdom & custom metrics on Statuspal. This means that your are now able to configure two new types on metrics (on top of monitored service metrics), metrics coming from your Pingdom account and metrics that you can manually push periodically, both types of metrics will look similar in your status page. Example Pingom metrics chart You should be able to find a new menu “Metrics” under your status page’s dashboard.

New Feature Spotlight: Scheduled Notifications

As you may be aware, we recently rolled out some exciting new features to your off-site status page. In the coming weeks, I’ll be highlighting some of these and taking a closer look at how each may be used to enhance your experience with StatusKeeper and hopefully make your job a little easier.

StatusHub Draft Mode

We are pleased to announce a new feature! The potential to improve internal and external incident communication is limitless. We are always looking for opportunities to make StatusHub better; therefore, feedback and feature suggestions from our customers have helped us learn how to help you. To that end, we’d like to introduce you to our newest feature: Draft Mode.