How we improved our service in 2020
In 2020 we slowly, but surely, improved our service. The UI has vastly improved and we added two major new features. Time for a recap!
Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud
The Place Where Modern Operations & Technology Come Together
How we added a favicons to our site list
Today we've added favicons to the site list you see when you log in to Oh Dear. Using the favicon, you quickly recognize a particular site. It also just looks nice visually. In this blog post, we'd like to share how we achieved this.
A fresh new dashboard look!
We just launched our brand new monitoring dashboard to all clients, giving a modern new look & feel to Oh Dear! There are plenty of improvements under the hood, so let's dive right in.
Scheduled task monitoring now available to all our users
After an intense testing period, we're excited to announce our scheduled task monitoring is now available to all our users!
How to monitor websites behind HTTP basic authentication
Oh Dear allows you to monitor any kind of website, even those behind HTTP basic authentication. In this guide, we'll cover the steps on how to monitor a website behind an HTTP basic authentication prompt.
Certificate lifetime limited to 1y since September 1st, 2020
Earlier this year, Apple announced that it would limit the lifetime of trusted certificates to 398 days. Shortly after, both Firefox and Chrome followed in their footsteps.
Deep integration with WordPress and Oh Dear
There is now a WordPress plugin that gives you deeper insights into broken links found, the performance of your site and the uptime statistics!
Adding action links to Oh Dear email notifications
Last week, we improved the email notifications sent by Oh Dear whenever something is down or broken. They now contain links that allow you to snooze further emails, essentially "silencing" the alert for a defined period of time.
Adding preventive revocation alerts to our certificate monitoring
As part of our SSL certificate monitoring, we check a lot of things. The usuals, like if it covers the right domain name or if it hasn't expired are, of course, already included. But SSL certificates can get quite complex. Sometimes, SSL certificates get revoked by the issuer. When that happens, browsers worldwide stop trusting them and will throw an invalid certificate warning.
Introducing new performance monitoring for your websites
We're excited to announce all Oh Dear users now have access to detailed performance metrics for all of their websites! Let us take you through a quick tour of the new performance monitoring.