News and Updates

Oct 17, 2024

In & outside business hour notifications

Whether you want to be notified during work hours, after-hours, or 24/7 you now have the flexibility to configure your notifications to fit your team's unique needs.

Oct 14, 2024

New Broken links UI

In addition to alerting you when you need it we have given our Broken Links feature a UI makeover! With this update it's now easier than ever to identify internal/external broken links as well as fixed and removed links.

Oct 8, 2024

Tag notifications

Oh Dear's new Tag Notifications feature lets you manage alerts more efficiently by assigning notification settings at the tag level. This ensures your notifications stay up-to-date, reduces manual management, and keeps the right people informed across multiple sites and environments.

Sep 3, 2024

Incident Template Library

Ready-to-use incident templates ensure clear, consistent messaging to keep your users informed at every stage.

Sep 3, 2024

New feature: Status Page Update Templates

We’re making it easier for you to keep your users informed with our new Status Page Update Templates. Save time and reduce stress by applying consistent, pre-made templates for your status updates - perfect for high-pressure situations!

Aug 30, 2024

History Filters

New filters on the History page and a new dedicated Team History view makes it easier than ever for you to track monitors across multiple sites.

Aug 30, 2024

Update to Microsoft Teams Notifications

We've rolled out a new Microsoft Teams integration to ensure you stay connected with all your website monitoring alerts. Learn how to set it up and keep your team informed without missing a beat!

Jul 1, 2024

Sitemap monitoring is now available at Oh Dear

Making sure every link in your sitemap is valid

Jun 9, 2024

Improving our broken link tests

We recently tackled a bug in our crawler service that caused false positives due to mocked test responses

Jun 6, 2024

You can now manage notification preferences via our API

Create, update and delete notification configurations using the API. Perfect for automating the sites you manage with Oh Dear.

Apr 22, 2024

Every second counts in our UI

We now show downtime duration in seconds

Apr 22, 2024

Improving our Multi-Factor Authentication

You can now view MFA secret key and team members with MFA enabled

Feb 28, 2024

Reducing PHP's CPU usage by nearly 40% by upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04

We observed an almost 40% reduction of CPU usage in our PHP servers by upgrading from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.

Feb 20, 2024

How to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

We're upgrading our servers from Ubuntu 20.04 to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. In case anyone's ever in a similar position, these are the steps we're taking to complete the upgrades.

Jan 26, 2024

Introducing our beautiful status badges

We now offer easily embeddable status badges that show the status of your site or status page

Jan 21, 2024

Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production

Our application check can make sure your Laravel application is healthy.

Jan 1, 2024

Laravel Pulse cards to show response times, scheduled jobs, broken links

Today, we released the ohdearapp/ohdear-pulse package which contains Laravel Pulse cards to show you the status of your scheduled jobs, any broken links you have in your Laravel app, and uptime / response times stats

Jan 1, 2024

Two smallish improvements to our DNS check

Our DNS check becomes a little bit more powerful

Dec 19, 2023

Our Lighthouse check has been upgraded to Lighthouse v11

A lot of new audits have been added

Oct 26, 2023

Our DNS check can now monitor hidden CNAME records

CNAME are a crucial part of any modern web app

Oct 1, 2023

Our uptime check can now verify the absence of a string

Our uptime check just got a little bit more powerful.

Jul 28, 2023

Make money by referring customers through our new affiliate program

Earn consistent monthly revenue by promoting Oh Dear to your online audience.

Jul 26, 2023

Better handling of bounced emails

You'll now immediately know if your email address is wrong

Jul 23, 2023

You can now log in faster using Google and GitHub

Logging in now only takes a single click

Jul 2, 2023

Our uptime check can now verify response headers

In the "Responses" section of the uptime settings page, you can specify which headers we should verify.

Jun 12, 2023

We can now notify you through PagerDuty

For larger teams that need a lot of flexibility on who needs to be notified when, our PagerDuty integration will be very handy.

Jun 11, 2023

Our redesigned status pages can now show uptime history

Our status pages got a major upgrade!

Jun 4, 2023

Our broken links check has been improved

We've made a nice quality-of-life improvement to that Broken Links Report.

May 12, 2023

You can now add notes to downtime periods

Using this little feature you can add the reason why your site was down

May 10, 2023

Our Opsgenie integration is now available

We've launched our Opsgenie integration. In this blog post, we'll tell you all about it

Apr 13, 2023

Our broken links check now highlights application errors

Today, we're introducing a third category in our report

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.