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How StatusCast makes managing incidents smarter in Slack

These days, more and more IT teams spend much of their workday in Slack. It’s essentially a second virtual home. For those employees who find Slack their main source of communication, it stands to reason that you need to access tools, bots, apps, and more – directly within the Slack environment. You shouldn’t have to leave your home to get your work done, and you shouldn’t have to leave Slack to communicate with and update your team and your clients.

Introducing our Zapier Integration

Now you can get your alerts on incidents anywhere you want! It's very probable that you already know Zapier, but if you don't know it, here's a brief intro. Zapier is one of everyone's favorite tools on the internet. It connects everything! You can easily connect systems that don't speak directly with each other or automate repetitive tasks with no code. That's one of the reasons we decided to create an integration. It was the easiest way to connect IsDown with the world 😁.

Now Monitor with Even More Granularity

StatusGator is a status data platform: We ingest data from almost 2,000 services by extracting and normalizing their official, public status page information. To monitor a service, you simply search through our list of thousands and its added to your dashboard. From there, you can filter to specific components of a service, such as products or regions. Now, you can subscribe to the same service more than once on a single StatusGator dashboard. What does this mean in practice?

New Feature: Adding more options to informational status updates

Not all status updates are published because of an incident or scheduled maintenance event. Sometimes, IT teams simply want to cast an informational status update without affecting the overall status. Now, with StatusCast’s newly released option, you can opt for informational updates to have no effect on your status.

Status pages can now be viewed as JSON or XML

Next to a large collection of checks, Oh Dear offers the ability to easily create beautiful status pages. This way, you can communicate the status of your sites and services to your users. Take a look at the Oh Dear powered status pages for Flare and Laravel. Today, we added the ability to view the status page as JSON (or XML if that is your thing). You just have to append /json (or /xml to the status page URL. So for the Laravel status page, you'll find the JSON at status.laravel.com/json.