Blog Lessons learned in 10 years of uptime monitoring This is what I’ve learned in 10 years of running an uptime monitoring business detecting over 2 million outages for over 4k users around the world…
Blog Document. Don't create. Reading through the Traffic Secrets book by Russell Brunson I found out about a very interesting tip of Gary Vaynerchuk: Document. Don’t create.
Blog How to build a CSS-only responsive website navigation Inspired by Dirk Olbrich’s Hugo Starter Theme with Tailwind CSS this works by displaying a regular navigation bar on landscape tablets and desktop resolutions, but changes into a nice dropdown on mobile resolutions.
Blog Migrating our Blog back to our website It’s been over 10 years now since Monitive exists and I find it somehow romantic to have the whole trail of adventures and challenges laid out in a single, public place.
Changelog Maintenance Releases A series of small releases aimed at fixing everything that we could find worth fixing or improving.
Changelog Introducing SMS Packages As I mentioned last year, we’ll be providing unlimited SMS alerts to all customers at no extra cost, even though we pay for them, up to the end of January 2021.
Changelog Maintenance Release: Timeout outage fix FIXED: Some websites that went down by timing out did not trigger an outage.
Changelog PDF Reports You can now generate custom PDF reports that you can download, archive or send to your auditor and customers.
Changelog Enable or disable monitors from the list A useful UX improvement is the ability to enable or disable monitors directly from the monitors list, on landscape tablets and desktop.
Changelog New Help screen and monitoring locations list The Help screen has been redone, in a more useful and organized manner.
Changelog Refresh PagerDuty Integration We had a loophole in the PagerDuty integration, where if you added more services in PagerDuty after connecting it to Monitive, you couldn’t bring in the new PagerDuty services without loosing the configuration.
Blog Why we ditched Lumen PHP Lumen PHP it a perfect candidate for building scalable and high-performance APIs. Until it isn’t.
Changelog Custom Uptime Reports You can no create customized uptime reports, for any set of monitors and any particular time frame.
Changelog Weekly and Monthly Reporting Preferences Each week we’re sending an uptime report to the team owner with the previous week statistics including uptime, downtime and response time.
Changelog Team Management policy updates Whenever there’s a team involved, things can easily go south.
Changelog New: Maintenance Window feature Sometimes, downtime is intentional, even for Internet services.
Changelog TCP Port monitoring, Team Management, PagerDuty & Webhooks Major update adding four new features to the new Monitive.
Changelog Check down monitors every minute When you have the Custom Interval monitoring feature enabled, you can set your monitors to be monitored every 1, 5, 30 minutes or even 6 or 24 hours.
Changelog In-app news and updates Since the news and updates page (formerly Changelog) is now up-to-date with everything that happens around the new Monitive, we’re also displaying the latest news in the Monitive web-app.
Blog Close to wrapping up 2020 There are 6 weeks left of 2020, which means it’s about time we wrap this year up, focus on what’s most important, and leave the nice-to-have endeavors for next year.
Changelog Six new HTTP features released New HTTP monitoring features released today, wrapping up pretty much all the HTTP requirements for a powerful, flexible yet simple monitoring solution for HTTP and HTTPS monitoring.
Blog How do you make your customers feel? There are a lot of tools, apps and services. If you’ve been following Product Hunt, you already know that startups and new apps are being launched every single day.
Changelog Test monitor before save Isn’t it frustrating to add a monitor just to see that your settings weren’t right and it will immediately be reported as down?