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By Colin Bartlett
GitHub was hit by a major global outage on August 17, 2026 that began with its infamous “Unicorn” error page and ended with a long tail of Copilot failures, lasting about seven and a half hours in total. StatusGator sent an Early Warning Signal at 13:35 UTC, five minutes before GitHub confirmed the incident on its status page at 13:40 UTC. User reports kept flowing until 20:12 UTC, well after the main site had recovered, because Copilot stayed broken for hours.
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By Colin Bartlett
A DNS failure at Proofpoint broke email delivery for organizations around the world on August 14, 2026. Records for pphosted.com stopped resolving, so inbound and outbound mail routed through Proofpoint bounced or stalled for nearly four hours. StatusGator flagged the incident with an Early Warning Signal at 12:48 UTC, about an hour before Proofpoint acknowledged it publicly on its status page at 13:50 UTC. Here is what happened, who it hit, and how some teams kept mail moving.
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By Valeria Kurolapova
We’ve made a small improvement to our Incident IQ integration: users can now dismiss the outage announcement bar. When the outage announcement bar is enabled, Incident IQ can automatically display an alert at the top of your portal whenever a monitored service experiences an outage. With this update, you can add a close button so users can dismiss the announcement once they’ve seen it.
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By Colin Bartlett
We’ve made a small but useful update to our Digital Signage integrations in StatusGator. You can now configure Allowed IP addresses for your digital signage integrations. This lets you restrict access to specific public IP addresses – for example, the network used by screens in your office, operations center, or other shared space. Simply add one or more IP addresses when configuring the integration, and StatusGator will limit access accordingly.
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By Colin Bartlett
StatusGator now monitors more than 10,000 services. Cloud platforms, AI tools, payment providers, communication apps, developer infrastructure, school software, business SaaS: if your team depends on it, there is a good chance we are already checking its status page. We started in 2015 with a few hundred providers and one idea, that nobody should have to keep multiple vendor status pages bookmarked to find out why the office suddenly cannot log in.
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By Colin Bartlett
When a service your organization depends on stops working, you need to know whether the problem is internal or caused by a third-party provider. Connecting StatusGator to Claude gives you a faster way to find out. You can ask Claude what is down, investigate provider incidents, review affected components, and analyze historical uptime using data from your StatusGator account.
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By Andy Libby
The StatusGator MCP server now supports a simpler way to connect, making it compatible with more of the AI tools you already use, including ChatGPT and Claude.
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By Valeria Kurolapova
Managing a growing list of monitors should be fast and straightforward. That’s why we’re introducing Bulk Actions, a new way to organize and manage multiple monitors at once in StatusGator. Instead of updating monitors individually, you can now select several monitors and group, duplicate, or delete them in just a few clicks.
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By StatusGator
On May 7 and 8, 2026, a thermal event in a single AWS data center hall knocked out power to EC2 instances and EBS volumes in a single Availability Zone in us-east-1. Within hours, more than 150 cloud services went down, including Coinbase, Reddit, HubSpot, and Atlassian's suite of tools, Jira, Confluence, and Trello among them. For teams without a structured cloud outage response workflow, the next several hours looked familiar: Slack DMs asking "is it down for you too?", tab-switching between status pages, and incident commanders repeating the same update in three different channels.
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By Valeria Kurolapova
We’ve shipped another round of updates to help you get more value from StatusGator. From Bulk Import and monitor dependencies to new Zoom Rooms, Rise Vision, and OptiSigns integrations, here’s what’s new this month.
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