If we look at the number of sites that our users monitor, we can split our user base into two large groups. Teams in the first group only monitor one or a couple of sites. The second group monitors 30 or more sites. We've just launched new features that make user management more flexible for large teams. In this blog post, we'd like to tell you all about it.
When you log into your account, you'll notice some subtle and not so subtle changes. We slightly updated our theme, you'll see more rounded corners and tweaked colours of various things in our UI.
We've added Microsoft Teams notifications to Oh Dear for uptime, certificate, performance and broken links alerts!
When a site is down, Oh Dear sends a notification every hour. Since last year, our notifications can be snoozed for a fixed amount of time (5 minutes, 1 hour, 4 hours, one day). In the evenings and weekends, you might not want to receive repeated notifications. That's why we've added a nice human touch: all notifications can now be snoozed until the start of the next workday. You can choose this new options in the snooze settings of a check.
Today, we're introducing a new major feature: monthly site reports. In such a report, you got a bird's eye summary of everything we know of a site in a particular month. We've gone the extra mile and added the ability to mail these reports to people outside of your team automatically. If you're an agency and manage sites for your clients, you could use this feature to send a monthly report of all broken links to your client. In this blog post, we'll tell you all about the feature.
To make sure that our service is working correctly, we have a suite of automated tests. The test suite is executed when we make changes and deploy something to production. Using the new parallel testing feature that recently landed in Laravel, we managed to run our testsuite about four times faster. Here is the test output when running all tests sequentially. The time needed is 4m28s. And here's the test output when using parallel testing. It only took 1m05s.
We're starting this new year strong with an additional new 8 locations to check your websites from! We've just finished adding uptime capacity in the following locations. That's 8 new locations to configure any website monitoring from! In all our previous locations, we've increased our server capacity to support our continued growth.
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!
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.
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.
