Improving our broken links checker & mixed content reporting

We're excited to announce that we've shipped some nice improvements to our broken links & mixed content checks. These checks both make use of the crawler that powers those features.

Trigger an on demand uptime & broken links check after a deploy

You can use our API to easily trigger an uptime and broken links check. If you add this to your deploy script, it can find broken links within minutes after your deploy.

Crawling internal vs. external URLs is now a setting

We've added a setting that allows you to choose if we should crawl all internal URLs or the external URLs too.

Extending uptime monitoring with POST, PUT & PATCH methods

Next to our standard uptime monitoring through GET requests, we've added support for POST, PUT & PATCH methods too.

We're a featured .app domain on Google's Registry

We're proud to have been listed on Google's 1 year anniversary post about the launch of the .APP top level domain.

Using Oh Dear! to keep your Varnish cache warm

Oh Dear! can crawl your sites twice a day. With some custom headers, you can let our crawls fetch new content from your servers and keep your Varnish cache warm for other users.

Adding a Friendly Name to your sites

We've added the ability to show a "friendly name" for your sites, instead of the domain and the URL associated with it.

Introducing our public tools section: try Oh Dear! without an account

We've added a new section to our site that allows you to test all of the Oh Dear! functionality without creating an account.

You can now specify to who we should send your invoice

We've added custom billing field that determine where your invoices will be sent to.

Why full service agency Marbles choose Oh Dear! for its uptime monitoring

We reached out to one of our earliest customers, Marbles, to ask why they decided to move from Pingdom and use our service instead.

Oh Dear! integration in Tideways

Tideways has integrated Oh Dear! in its profiler to easily correlate downtime events with your application exceptions and performance.

Adding uptime capacity for our mates down under

We've added additional servers to improve our monitoring for our Australian customers.

Our Gitlab CI pipeline for Laravel applications

We're releasing our Gitlab CI configuration that anyone can use to automate their automated testing workflow for Laravel applications.

Transitioning from laravel-echo-server to laravel-websockets

We made the move from a nodejs-powered websocket server to a full PHP implementation.

Redesigning parts of our homepage

We launched a redesigned homepage and quite a few tweaks to the overall look & feel of Oh Dear!. In this post we'll highlight some of those changes.

Just for Black Friday, we're doubling our prices

On the most important sales day of the year, you want your site to be online. Therefore, our service is twice as valuable.

Introducing the Oh Dear! plugin for Laravel Nova

Today we released our free tool for Nova applications. It allows you to display the results of our checks in your own admin interace.

Automatic monitoring of Laravel Forge managed sites

We've launched a cool feature for our users on the Laravel Forge platform: automatic monitoring of any of your sites and servers managed through Laravel Forge!

How to size & scale your Laravel Queues

We share details on how we have set up our Laravel queues, how we determined our worker counts and which queues we use.

The start of the Oh Dear! blog

The first blogpost on the Oh Dear! blog: we're excited to share more about our internals!