Lucian

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📍 Timisoara

Security Release v1.36.2

Today we had an OTP attack causing a lot of SMS messages being sent in a short time. This update is the main protection of this ever occurring again. The attack started yesterday at 19:33 UTC and ended at 22:26 UTC. For security reasons we are not going

Recent checks details on hover

Recent checks details on hover

We're excited to announce a small but mighty enhancement to our recent checks table on the "view monitor" page. Now, when you hover over the location column, you'll see a tooltip that displays the city, country, and area. It will also display the status

2023: Looking both ways...

2023: Looking both ways...

As a small business, we at Monitive understand the importance of being mindful of both the past and the future. We've been in the uptime monitoring business for almost 13 years now and we are proud to say that in 2022, we had a decent financial performance. As

(Re)Start a Pro Trial period

(Re)Start a Pro Trial period

Starting today, if you signed up for a free account, you were definitely missing out on the Pro features that we give for free for a 15-day trial period. That's why, starting now, if you have a phone number in your account, you can jump-start your free 15

Improved alerting rules flexibility

Improved alerting rules flexibility

This release brings some pretty cool updates to the add/edit monitor box, including a major revamp of the alerting rules - the settings of a monitor that determine who gets alerted, when they get alerted and how they get alerted. On the Add / Edit Monitor dialog you might notice

Maintenance Release API v1.35.3

This release fixes some important issues that we discovered recently, so it's more of an under-the-hood update. Very important one, nevertheless. API Updates Added * More tests for Alerting rules, which are getting an upgrade in the client web-app (#905) Removed * The Ambassador System, which was a way to

Maintenance Release v1.35.1 v0.37.4

This is mainly addresses stability issues and includes media used in the Black Friday special campaign. API v1.35.1 Updates Added * Promotional media support in the weekly/monthly newsletter and email recovery alert (#883) Changed * Tests now using database transactions instead of migrations (#851) * Updated a few tests to

Locations endpoint and sample monitor

Added a simpler way to list the IPs where we're checking the websites from, so our users can easily script in whitelisting or other network automations. The always-up-to-date list of monitoring locations is, from now on, available at https://api1.monitive.com/locations. A secondary improvement is the

Maintenance Release v1.33.1 v0.37.1

This release is addressing some issues that we had to fix and also cleaning up our code by removing some components that have been retired. API v1.33.1 Updates Added * Secondary email confirmation message, when a user signed up but didn't confirm their email (#813) * SMS reminder

Phone number verification

Phone number verification

With this release, we're enabling signups again, so if you've been waiting to get your Monitive account, now is the time. We've taken several steps towards ensuring that all signups in our system are valid, by verifying phone numbers when signing up for free

Maintenance Release v1.32.0

This is a stability and security update involving several packages upgrades and bugfixes. Starting with this release, we've started a series of updates targeting confirming accounts (including emails and alerting options). More about this soon. API v1.32.0 Updates Added * Email confirmation date is now stored in

Maintenance Release v1.31.4

This is a stability and security update. API v1.31.4 Updates Fixed * When failing to create a short URL for and SMS alert, send the SMS alert without the short link. (#751) Changed * (internal) API tests and unit tests take less than 15 minutes to run (#752). Security * Updated

Maintenance Release v1.31.3

This is mainly a security update, plus two minor updates. API v1.31.3 Updates Fixed * Allow team owner to revoke an invitation issued by a team member (#744) Changed * Migrate to a new Movalio account for the email automations & newsletters (#749) Security * Updated composer packages (#743, #745)

2022: Let's do this!

2022: Let's do this!

Happy new year! 🎉 It's 2022, and even though not much has changed in the past year, I'm happy to know that Monitive is running smoothly and brings value to our customers. For the first quarter of 2022 our main focus is fixing issues, either bugs we

PagerDuty Alerts

PagerDuty + Monitive Integration Benefits * Notify on-call responders based on alerts sent from Monitive. * Send root cause information and outage information link along in the triggered event. * Create escalation and on-call schedules in PagerDuty based on your company workflows. * Incidents will automatically resolve in PagerDuty when the monitored service has recovered.

Maintenance Release v1.31.2

A few back-end updates of packages, to get safely through the holidays. API v1.31.2 Updates Security * Updated composer packages (#736, #738, #739, #740)

Maintenance Release v0.36.3

This is a set of small fixes, addressing issues that were around for a while. Admin v0.36.3 Updates Fixed * Avoided redundant navigation to current location, error thrown when clicking on the logo on the Dashboard page (#301) * Check for dataLayer existence when firing GTM (#296) * If user loads

Demo Account release

Demo Account release

Starting today, any visitor of monitive.com can automatically sign into a demo account and see what Monitive is all about. Check it out – https://app.monitive.com/#/demo-account API v1.31.1 Updates Fixed * Read-only users should be able to list the Status Pages (#734) Security * Updated composer packages

Demo account support

Demo account support

The new feature in this release is support for a read-only demo account, where a visitor of monitive.com can access with just one click. This is an active, live account, monitoring several websites, where any user can get a feel of how Monitive looks and works. Besides the demo

Quick-test Improvements

These releases bring some under-the-hood improvements and fixes to quick-tests, alerting system, custom reports and user management. API v1.30.0 Updates Added * Calculate percentile & top percentile for any quicktest executed (#690) Fixed * Skipping Twilio alert during Silent Hours generates error (#683) * Email validation errors might prevent user to

Webhook alerts migrated to recipients

Webhook alerts migrated to recipients

Starting today, the webhook alerts are manageable from the Recipients screen, along with all the other alert types. API v1.29.0 Updates Changed * Webhook alerts migrated to recipients via notifications system (#662) * Webhook request structure changed (BREAKING CHANGE) Added * Added internal logging to investigate check misfires patterns (#688) Security

SMS & Phone Call Alerts as Recipients

SMS & Phone Call Alerts as Recipients

This release migrates the SMS and Phone Call alerting settings from a monitor, from being user-bound to being managed in the Recipients screen. Now you can add as many SMS and Phone Call recipients you need, and set them up as alerting recipients on any of your monitors. Admin v0.

Website requirement for Free Signups

Website requirement for Free Signups

This release adds the website input box in the Forever free signup page. Previously you could sign up without a website, which resulted in many accounts created without anything to monitor. Since Monitive is only useful when it monitors something, we're now requiring a website for the free

Fix Email alert selection in add/edit monitor

Admin v0.31.1