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We have launched Request Mirror, a little free service to reflect HTTP requests. We've also open-sourced it: you can read the code in the ohdearapp/request-mirror.ohdear.app repo on GitHub. In this blog post I'd like to explain why we built it and how you can use it.

A few weeks ago, we massively improved the performance of the dashboard & website by optimizing some of our SQL queries. In this post, we'll share how we identified the queries that needed work. In the next post, we'll explore how we fixed each of them. We'll cover the basics and gradually work our way up to the more advanced/complex ways of identifying slow queries. In this post, you'll see: Let's go!

Today, we have launched our MCP server. MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standardized way for AI models to connect with external data sources and tools. If you use a tool like Claude Code, then this is how you can connect Oh Dear to it (you can create an API token in your account settings)

The past month we dedicated time and resources into optimising the speed and experience of our public website, our dashboard and our behind-the-scenes uptime checks that we perform. Overall, our website and dashboard feels about 2x to 3x faster. The biggest gains are for our users that have > 100 sites on their dashboard, they'll get a noticeably faster loading time. For those biggest users, the dashboard is quite litterally 10x faster.

As part of our big deploy that added ping and TCP monitoring, we’ve also shipped a small, but often requested feature: you can now choose the frequency of the check we run. By default, we check your website for uptime every minute. The Lighthouse check runs daily. Using our new feature, you can now, for instance, choose that the uptime check should run every 2 minutes, and the Lighthouse check every 5 days. You can choose the frequency at the settings of the check.