We’ve just rolled out a new Check Now feature for Website and Ping monitors! This lets you manually check the current status of your monitor instantly, right from the admin board. Whether you’re monitoring a Website or using a Ping monitor, this option provides the most up-to-date status when you need it. To access the Check Now feature, simply go to your Monitors page, find the Website or Ping monitor you’d like to check, and click the three dots icon next to it.

We’ve made some updates to the status page layout, allowing users to easily access important monitor details like Uptime History and Components across all layout types, including the 2-column and 3-column views.

We’ve made an upgrade to the “Check for Content” feature in our website monitors! Previously, users could select just one location at a time from US West, US East, EU West, and AU East via radio buttons. Now you can monitor your content from multiple locations instead of just one. By choosing multiple regions you can ensure that transient network issues don’t cause your monitor to go down unexpectedly.

StatusGator is the world’s best status page aggregator: We aggregate the status of thousands of cloud services and hosted applications from their official status pages. But everyone knows official status pages are often behind and in those critical moments before the status page is updated, you might be thinking “Is it just me? Or is it really down?” StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals solves that by alerting you before providers even acknowledge the incident.

We’re excited to announce a new feature designed for our customers with multiple boards and status pages – introducing the Status Page Selector! Now, users can switch between different status pages directly from a single page. This is especially useful for companies that need separate status pages for different products, departments, or teams.

We’re excited to announce a new addition to StatusGator’s robust monitoring suite: Ping Monitoring. Along with service and website monitoring, you can now set up ping monitors to check the status of your network or other critical infrastructure. This new feature gives you more ways to ensure your systems are running smoothly by adding lightweight, real-time checks of systems that are not web-based.

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We’ve added a new option to help you customize your status page even further – you can now upload a separate logo specifically for dark mode! This ensures your logo looks great, no matter which theme your users are viewing. To set this up, simply go to the Status Page Settings and head to the Appearance section. There, you’ll find the option to upload a logo tailored for dark mode.

We’ve got a great new feature for your website monitors: timeout configuration! Now, you can fine-tune your monitors by setting a custom timeout – the maximum amount of time (in seconds) you’re willing to wait for a response before considering the service down. You can choose from predefined options of 5, 15, 30, or 60 seconds, allowing for flexibility based on your needs. This feature gives you more control over how sensitive your website monitors are to slow networks.

With the fall season well underway here in the northern hemisphere, the StatusGator team has been donning our hoodies and getting down to business on some long-requested features. We’ve got some fresh updates and features that we think you’ll really like — giving you even more control and insight over your monitors.