Status pages are a valuable asset for any website or SaaS business – especially today when outages and downtime have never been more common and uptime expectations have never been higher. Whether your site is down or all systems are perfectly operational, hosted status pages provide external users and internal stakeholders with a single source of truth regarding uptime performance. When done well, status pages are elegant and custom-branded.

For more than 7 years, StatusGator has monitored the world’s status pages and aggregated the status of more than 1,000 cloud services into custom dashboards. With a quick glance, you can see the status of every service you depend on. But what if a website you depend on does not have a status page? What about internal tools, sites you host yourself, and other services without public status information?

Contact us to get access to our direct monitoring beta feature today! For more than 7 years, StatusGator has monitored the world’s status pages and aggregated the status of more than 1,000 cloud services into custom dashboards. With a quick glance, you can see the status of every service you depend on. But what if a website you depend on does not have a status page? What about internal tools, sites you host yourself, and other services without public status information?

A public status page conveys your service's health and availability to your internal and external users—fostering transparency and trust. We've launched a new status pages feature, adding support for custom domains and branding!

StatusGator’s Slack integration is one of our most popular features. Our users love getting real time notifictations of outages from all the cloud services they depend on. Plus, with a few quick clicks you can check the status of any service you monitor on StatusGator, using our /statuscheck slash command. Now, you can also get the status of all the services in your StatusGator dashboard with one quick command: /statuscheck list. This will list every service on your dashboard.

We all remember when Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram shut down in April of last year for a whole day. And while it was terrible for their company—it’s an educational moment for the rest of us to learn from. Facebook’s status page is self-hosted, and that puts their status pages at risk of the exact issue it’s designed to tell you about.

Since the pandemic struck, education has moved even further online. Many schools are now actively transforming their programs to ensure uninterrupted remote education of high quality. This means device deployments have commonly grown to 1-to-1 — every student now has a laptop. At the same time, budget constraints don’t allow buying subscription plans for all the software schools and educational institutions need. Sounds familiar?

In between online meetings and chat conversations, we've all embraced the digital way of life and work, and it is here to stay. We may not know any other way to operate businesses in a few years' time except the digital space. This way of life will require clear communication channels for businesses to connect with their users. Keeping that in mind, as well as your feedback in our community, we've shaped StatusIQ to help ease the incident communication process.

StatusGator now supports notifications via GoogleChat! If your Google Chat instance supports webhook integrations, you can instantly receive notices about outages and downtime from your favorite services, right inside a Google Chat Space. Here’s how.