We're excited to announce that we've shipped some nice improvements to our broken links & mixed content checks. These checks both make use of the crawler that powers those features. When we first launched Oh Dear!, we decided to limit the crawls to the first 1.000 unique pages we find. This was mostly a protection for infinite loops, since those are really hard to detect.

You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages. Our API allows you to trigger an on demand run for every check we do. But, it's an API - so it requires a set of IDs. First, let's find the different checks your site has.

We've added a setting that allows you to choose if we should crawl all internal URLs or the external URLs too.

Next to our standard uptime monitoring through GET requests, we've added support for POST, PUT & PATCH methods too.

We're proud to have been listed on Google's 1 year anniversary post about the launch of the .APP top level domain.

Slow websites are annoying, right? We sure think so. One common solution is to introduce a caching proxy like Varnish to help cache pages and reduce your server load. The good news is, if you have Oh Dear!, you can let those 2 work together.

We've added the ability to show a "friendly name" for your sites, instead of the domain and the URL associated with it. For each website, you can configure the display name that we should use to present the website.

We launched a cool new feature that everyone can enjoy: public versions of all the checks available within Oh Dear! Now you can try Oh Dear! without even creating an account.

We've added a small but useful feature to Oh Dear! last month, which allows you to customize the recipient of your invoices.

We reached out to one of our earliest customers, Marbles, to ask why they decided to move from Pingdom and use our service instead. If you're in doubt whether or not to give us a try, maybe they can convince you.