News and Updates

Mar 21, 2023

You can now save notes on a site

We implemented a small, but valuable feature requested by some of our users.

Mar 20, 2023

Redesigning Oh Dear: a case study

Digital With You published an in-depth case study on how they helped us redesign Oh Dear

Mar 9, 2023

Behind The Scenes Of Oh Dear

Here's a recording of a talk on the Oh Dear internals given at Laracon India.

Mar 9, 2023

Changing the owner of the team can now be done in our UI

You don't need to contact support anymore to change the owner of a team.

Feb 19, 2023

You can now add tags to your sites

Tags allow to add a bit of meta information to your site.

Feb 17, 2023

Status pages can now be displayed in multiple languages

We've got some good news for users that have a multi-lingual audience.

Feb 4, 2023

Our API tokens can now be scoped by site or status page

When creating a token, you can now pick the sites and status pages it should have access to.

Jan 22, 2023

Lighthouse SEO monitoring is now available at Oh Dear

We're proud to announce we have added a new check to our service: Lighthouse SEO. Using this check you can detect (and get solution suggestions) for SEO and performance problems.

Oct 3, 2022

We have redesigned our entire service

As of today, Oh Dear is in a brand new jacket. We've totally redesigned Oh Dear's UI. Our app doesn't only look better, but we've also made it much easier to use.

Aug 18, 2022

A preview of our upcoming redesign

One of our goals for this year is to bring the UI of Oh Dear to the next level. Behind the scenes, our team is working hard on a complete rewrite of our marketing website and app. In this blog post, we'd like to give you a preview of the redesign.

Jul 16, 2022

Making sure routes and config files are cached in a Laravel app

We can now notify you if your Laravel app hasn't cached routes or config in production

Jun 15, 2022

You can now monitor your domain name using Oh Dear

We're proud to introduce our domain name check. In this blog post, we explain why you need it, and how it works behind the scenes.

May 20, 2022

Building Oh Dear’s new design: Creating a color system, why and how

In this post I go into more detail on why and how we implemented a tailwind-like color system which supports all the colours used throughout the redesign.

May 19, 2022

Easily navigate Oh Dear using the command palette

We've made it much easier to navigate around in our UI

May 11, 2022

Status pages can now be viewed as JSON or XML

Next to a large collection of checks, Oh Dear offers the ability to easily create beautiful status pages. This way, you can communicate the status of your sites and services to your users. Today, we added the ability to view the status page as JSON or XML

May 6, 2022

Building Oh Dear’s new design: Implementing the design

In this blog post we'd like to show you how we are implementing the redesign of the Oh Dear frontend.

May 5, 2022

Status page subscriptions are now available

Using Oh Dear you can create beautiful status pages. As from today, you can let your users also subscribe to updates on those status pages.

Apr 8, 2022

Building Oh Dear’s new design: Project setup

This is the first blog post of a series about how the new design for the Oh Dear website and application frontend is being built. The goal is to share the progress and the knowledge gained along the way, and give you an insight of what is about to come.

Mar 14, 2022

Introducing Nick and Sean to the Oh Dear team

We're growing the team at Oh Dear with two very strong additions: Nick and Sean.

Dec 14, 2021

How we improved our service in 2021

Let's look at how we improved our service in the past year.

Dec 14, 2021

You can now monitor the health of your application and server

We've proud to announce that have added a major new feature to Oh Dear: Application Health monitoring.

Nov 23, 2021

You can now monitor your DNS records using Oh Dear

We can now notify you of changing DNS records and let you know when we've detected a problem with your nameservers.

Oct 7, 2021

You can now customise how we handle redirects

We've made some improvements on how we handle redirects. In this blog post you'll read all the details.

Oct 1, 2021

Introducing our new interactive Telegram notifications

Let's take a look at our shiny new Telegram notifications.

Sep 29, 2021

Let's Encrypt DST Root CA X3 certificate set to expire

One of Let's Encrypts' oldest root certificates, DST Root CA X3, expires later tonight. Learn more about what this means.

Sep 18, 2021

We've increased our performance by decreasing the number of queries

To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base.

Sep 16, 2021

Monitoring password protected sites using Oh Dear

You can now specify which status response code we should consider as ok

Sep 13, 2021

Introducing our new support bubble

To make it more easy for our users to pass us feature request and report bugs, we've introduced a little support bubble at the bottom of every page.

Aug 14, 2021

We now support Pushover's priority messages

Adding support for Pushover's priorities is a minor feature, but a useful one for our customers using this service.

May 3, 2021

Introducing advanced user management for large teams

We've launched new features that made user management more flexible for large teams.

May 3, 2021

Sites can now be grouped

To better emphasise that some of that monitored sites are related, you can now use groups

Mar 31, 2021

Introducing private status pages

You can now mark status pages as private, guarding them from the outside world unless you have the secret passphrase.

Mar 2, 2021

User, team and billing sections have been revamped

When you log into your account, you'll notice some subtle and not so subtle changes.

Feb 28, 2021

Microsoft Teams notifications now available in Oh Dear

We've added Microsoft Teams notifications to Oh Dear for uptime, certificate, performance and broken links alerts.

Feb 9, 2021

Snooze notifications until the next workday

All notifications can now be snoozed until the start of the next workday.

Feb 4, 2021

We're giving away a MacBook Air (M1) to one of our users!

In two months time, we'll be giving away a new MacBook Air (M1) to one of our clients. Curious how this works? Let's dive in!

Feb 3, 2021

Introducing monthly site reports

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.

Feb 1, 2021

Making our Laravel test suite ready for parallel testing

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. Here's how we made this test suite four times faster.

Jan 4, 2021

Adding even more uptime check locations to Oh Dear

We're starting this new year strong with an additional 8 locations to check your websites from!

Dec 26, 2020

How we improved our service in 2020

Let's take a look back at the features we added an improvements we made to our service in 2020

Dec 3, 2020

How we added a favicons to our site list

If you logged in to Oh Dear in the past month, you might have noticed that we now display a site's favicon. Here's how we achieved that

Nov 27, 2020

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!

Nov 24, 2020

Enjoy our Black Friday Deals

We've got two nice Black Friday deals lined up for you!

Sep 24, 2020

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!

Sep 7, 2020

How to monitor websites behind HTTP basic authentication

Oh Dear allows you to monitor any kind of website, even those behind HTTP basic authentication.

Sep 6, 2020

Certificate lifetime limited to 1y since September 1st, 2020

Since September 1st, most browsers only accept certificates that have a lifetime of maximum 1yr.

Aug 19, 2020

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!

Jul 13, 2020

Adding action links to Oh Dear email notifications

Email notifications now contains links to snooze further emails

Jul 6, 2020

Adding preventive revocation alerts to our certificate monitoring

Sometimes, we get a head-start when it comes to alerting on certificate revocations. From now, we'll be able to alert our users in a more standardised way of this happens.

Jun 9, 2020

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!