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We’re excited to announce the launch of the StatusGator Chrome extension, a new way to check the status of websites and online services directly from your browser. Whether you’re troubleshooting an issue, wondering if a website is down, or looking for more information about an ongoing incident, the extension gives you instant access to service status information with a single click. Simply install the extension and start checking the status of websites and services as you browse.

We’re excited to announce the launch of the StatusGator browser extension, now available for both Chrome and Firefox. Whether you’re troubleshooting an issue, wondering if a website is down, or looking for more information about an ongoing incident, the extension gives you instant access to service status information with a single click. Simply install the extension and start checking the status of websites and services as you browse.

We’re excited to introduce monitor metadata, a new feature available in the General tab of monitor settings. You can now add custom key/value metadata to monitors, making it easier to organize resources and add operational context to alerts and integrations.

We’re excited to announce expanded functionality for the StatusGator Boards API. You can now create new boards, update existing boards, and delete boards directly through the API. Previously, the Boards API only supported listing boards and retrieving board details. With these new capabilities, you can automate the complete board lifecycle – from provisioning new boards to managing ownership and cleaning up boards that are no longer needed.

On June 3, 2026, Shopify experienced a widespread service disruption that affected merchants and customers across multiple regions. Users reported storefront failures, admin dashboard issues, API connectivity problems, and authentication errors that disrupted ecommerce operations for several hours. While the outage did not affect every Shopify customer, reports quickly began arriving from around the world, indicating a significant platform issue.

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.