We've recently upgraded some of our server infrastructure from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 22.04 LTS and observed an almost 40% decrease in CPU usage for our PHP workloads.
Pretty impressive!
Full write-up with more data on our blog:
🚀We have launched a total redesign of our service!
Have a look:
Oh Dear is the most beautiful all-in-one monitoring tool for your entire website.
We offer monitoring for uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, status page and much more!
Here's a blogpost on how we use & scale our
@laravelphp
queues, which techniques we used (and which failed) and the system we eventually landed on.
Always up for improvements!
We are super excited to present our new logo & website today! 🥳
A fresh look & feel to propel us into 2020! 🚀
We've written about the design process & the changes on our blog.
"It's not you, it's them"
As an uptime monitor, we can confirm Facebook, Instagram & Whatsapp are having global issues. Nothing to do but sit back & let others fix it. 👏
(Unless you work at FB, in which case: good luck!)
We're giving away a year of monitoring! 🔥
Oh Dear is a beautiful uptime monitor that checks your SSL certificate, finds broken links & mixed content and soon does cron job monitoring as well.
To win: follow us, RT this tweet & we'll pick a lucky winner in 2 weeks! 🥳
💅 Our redesign is coming along quite nicely. Here are a couple of cool animations that we'll add to our website.
Powered by
@Alpine_JS
/
@tailwindcss
Hope to launch all of this in the next couple of months.
🧪 Today, we're launching our latest feature: DNS record monitoring!
This gives all our users the ability to receive alerts on DNS changes, back up all their DNS records and be able to respond instantly to any DNS problems.
Let's explore! ⤵️
We've already been using this for a couple of days to broadcast about 50 000 messages daily.
It's stable and it works great! 👍 We'll blog about our experience with it soon!
🔥 New Feature 🔥
We can now automatically monitor all your sites that are managed on
@laravelphp
Forge!
The best kind of monitoring is the one you don't have to think about, this is another step in that direction.
Did you know there's a
@CraftCMS
plugin that deeply integrates all our checks?
You can see and edit your broken links & mixed content directly from your Control Panel! 👏
🚀 We’re proud to introduce our newest major feature: Application Health Monitoring
You can now monitor the health of your application and server
All the details:
Docs:
We're giving away a year of monitoring! 🔥
Want to get a kick-ass uptime monitor, certificate checker & broken link finder (and soon: performance monitoring)?
To win: follow us, RT this tweet & we'll pick a lucky winner in 2 weeks! 🥳
Ho Ho Ho Dear! 🎅
A merry Christmas & happy holidays everyone! These are strange times, but we hope you get to (virtually?) celebrate with the people you love.
From Belgium,
Freek & Mattias
Just for Black Friday, we're doubling our prices!
Wait, what?
That's right! On your most important sales day of the year, our service will be twice as valuable. Totally makes sense. 🤓
We're doing our biggest giveaway ever: a brand new Macbook Air (M1) 🔥
How can you win? Just be an Oh Dear customer. Simple as that.
Old or new user, doesn't matter. If you're a client of ours, you have a chance to win! 🥳
How & when? Read it here 👇
As our holiday gift to all of you, we’ll disable all notifications (*) so you won’t be disturbed by pesky downtime alerts. 😘
Happy holidays everyone! 🥳
(*) OK not really, but we’ll cross our fingers you won’t have to be on-call or need to intervene. 😇
Because of the way we monitor for SSL certificates, we were able to identify a problem at a large, commercial CDN provider. 🤓
Read on for the technical bits on how we detected it! 👇
We're sad to see the free tier at Pingdom go away.
Looking for a rock-solid alternative for your uptime monitoring (that does a little more than just checking your homepage)? Give us a try! 🥳
🔥 We're excited to announce all our users now have access to detailed performance metrics for all of their websites!
Get extra insights into your app performance and troubleshoot more confidently. 💪
More details on our blog or the thread below:
We are excited to share our new Scheduled Task monitoring is now available to all Oh Dear users! 🥳
You'll be able to monitor cron jobs, scheduled tasks and queues & jobs!
Curious? Find out more in our blogpost or in this thread. 👇
Some major peering/transit provider are having issues, mostly in Europe. We're seeing lots of intermittent up/down alerts across all sites.
It's not you & you likely can't do anything about it. 😢
The internet is a series of tubes after all, and some tubes are having issues.
Want to get started running automated testing of your Laravel application with Gitlab?
We're releasing our pipeline configuration for everyone to use. 🔥
If you look in your dashboard now, you'll see little favicons for every site in the list. 👌
Curious how that's implemented? Here's a deep-dive into the code showing all the internal bits of Oh Dear! 😎
We've got good news for all our users: we're adding the ability to receive site notifications via postcards! 💌
Our focus has been too much on the "digital" lately, we're sorry we missed this hole in our line-up. Please forgive us! 🙏
🙌 When our users have great feature ideas, we implement them pretty fast. Somebody wanted to monitor the password protection on a site, and we’ve made that possible
👍 If you have a good idea to improve our service, let us know. We’re listening!
It appears Cloudflare is having issues worldwide. If you're not aware of any problems on your site, now's a good time to consider an uptime monitor like ours. 😇
💅 We’ve redesigned our status pages!
They are now looking more beautiful than ever.
A status page can now show 60 days worth of uptime history!
Here's the status page of
@flareappio
as an example:
Blogpost:
Hope you like it!
Have you tried the Oh Dear WordPress plugin yet?
This kind of integration gives you direct access to find & repair your broken links, see uptime stats and monitor the performance of your site - all from the WP dashboard! 👍
🔥 Today, we're launching our status page feature for all our users!
You can create as many status pages as you'd like, pick the sites to show & customize it any way you see fit.
We're super excited to share this feature with everyone! 🥳
We launched another small improvement to our dashboard.
We assume that most sites are using https, so we want optimise for that.
Instead of displaying “
http://”
or “
https://“
underneath the url of every site, we now only display “
http://“
for those non-https sites.
We are currently experiencing DNS monitoring problems as a result of a large amount of incoming DNS traffic (aka: a DDoS).
Mitigations are in place now, the false positive notifications are resolved.
For further updates, please see our status pages:
Yesterday we notified all affected users of the Let's Encrypt mass revocation.
Today, we'll share the technical details of we identified all those domains.
Prepare for PHP, Bash & some serious server power! 🚀
1️⃣ more today until we launch our redesign!
Here’s a screenshot of our current homepage, it’s going to look very different tomorrow 💅
We’re also going to increase our prices. If you want to have the old price, subscribe now, and you’ll keep that lower price 👍
Fun fact: we actually *do* have a Christmas gift this year for all our customers.
Want to find out what it is? Make sure you're a (paying 😉) customer by Christmas! 🙏
I had no idea that
@OhDearApp
had Christmas swag. I dig it.
It can probably be linked to your OhDear account to make the LED flash when your certificate is about to expire 🤔
We found ourselves in the unique spot to test & deploy the new `laravel-websockets` package by
@marcelpociot
&
@freekmurze
. 🛰
Switching from our NodeJS implementation was super easy. Here's what we think →
🔓 When you are monitoring sites as an agency, you might want to give your client access to the sites your are monitoring for them.
👨💻 We’re currently working on a granular permission system that makes this possible
🏁 ETA a few weeks
Are you running a WordPress site and monitoring it through
@OhDearApp
?
Try out this new plugin to bring all the metrics and reporting from us directly into your WordPress dashboard! 🥳
This makes it super simple to find and edit your broken pages. Thanks,
@kryptoniteWP
! 💪
🎅 Ho ho ho Dear!
🥳 Merry Christmas & happy holidays everybody!
🎄 Have a great time spending time with friends and family!
✅ We hope you won’t get an alert from us during that time.
From Belgium,
Freek & Mattias
Can you believe we already performed more than 75 million checks? 💪
ICYMI: we recently launched yearly subscriptions:
Please help us make that maximum id in the runs table go even higher 😀
👀 To be sure that your services are running smoothly in 2021, we can keep an eye out for any problems.
💰 Use this coupon code when subscribing to get 20% off for every bill we send you in 2021:
STAY-SAFE-IN-2021
(Coupon valid for a couple of days)
We've identified 2.3% of our monitored domains that would have been affected by
@letsencrypt
revocation tomorrow.
The clients have all been informed and can hopefully take swift action!
We revamped all our notification screens, making it even easier to manage which alerts get sent to which destinations (Slack, SMS, Webhooks, ...). 🥳
And there's now a dedicated "test" button, to make sure your webhook URL or API keys work! 💯
🤑 Until the end of the week you can use this coupon to get a 30% discount on your first three months when subscribing:
BLACK-WEEK-2020
We’ve also temporary reinstated our 5 EUR plan. This will only be available for the next couple of days. Subscribe now!
Our downtime reporting gives you all the info you need to troubleshoot:
- a CLI version to reproduce our call (curl)
- a fast way to trigger a re-check from Oh Dear (multi-location)
- all the response headers we received
When it's down, you need everything at your fingertips.
We've been extending our server infrastructure in the last few weeks, which means we have some new IPs where we do monitoring from.
You can now find the IPv4 and IPv6 addresses as plain text, JSON and CSV values on our site!
We're starting the year strong with a whopping 8 new locations you can use to check your website uptime from! 🥳
You can now monitor from Seoul, Singapore, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Bahrain, London, Sao Paulo and Cape Town.
More details 👇
We're super excited to announce an integration of Oh Dear! in
@tidewaysio
!
You can now correlate downtime alerts directly with your application exceptions and errors. 🥳
We're sending out a lot more alerts in the past 30 minutes, there appear to be some network connectivity errors between major data centers worldwide.
It's unlikely you can do anything about it though, hang tight! 🤞
🥳 We’re doing a nice promo tocelebrate today’s
@LaraconOnline
When you subscribe to Oh Dear, today you can use this coupon code to get 30% discount for your first three months!
OHDEAR-LOVES-LARACON-ONLINE-2021
As we reach the end of 2020, now feels like a good time to look back and see what we accomplished throughout this year 🥳
The long-form version is on our blog:
Or read the thread below 👇
"The Market Lacked the Tool We Wanted. So We Built it Ourselves."
Want to read more about the origin story of how we built Oh Dear? We got interviewed by
@IndieHackers
and shared some more details. 🤘
We've just launched a new feature: maintenance periods! 🚀
Make sure no one gets alerted unnecessary whenever you do deploys or maintenance on your website. 🥳
We send out monthly uptime reports to all our customers.
Here’s the report from
@driesvints
‘ account (we asked his permission to tweet it).
So close to 100%… Better luck next month Dries. We will be watching your sites!
We're doing our biggest giveaway ever: a brand new Macbook Air (M1) 🔥
How can you win? Just be an Oh Dear customer. Simple as that.
Old or new user, doesn't matter. If you're a client of ours, you have a chance to win! 🥳
How & when? Read it here 👇
We are getting closer and closer to the start of our open beta. Here's how the current site overview screen looks like.
Subscribe to our mailinglist to get notified when you can try our service out for yourself:
Happy holidays everyone! 🎄
We're seeing the first "NET::ERR_CERT_REVOKED" errors in the wild, as a result of the mass-revocation of DigiCert and others.
If you're seeing this, test the site in . If we show the revocation warning, talk to your SSL provider to get it re-issued asap!
An awesome example of awesome people building awesome products, who also realise their customers aren't just numbers. Small things matter. ❤️
@OhDearApp
@freekmurze
@mattiasgeniar
We're starting the week with
#blackfriday
sales! We'll share several discount codes this week. The earlier you get in, the bigger the discount! 🎂
First code is valid for 2 days and gives a 15eur discount for all new customers: BLACKFRIDAY-OD-N15D
Start monitoring today! 😎
We've got 5
@LaraconOnline
tickets to give away!
But ... we would like to give this to those who otherwise can't afford to attend. How would we go about giving this away without getting too personal into peoples' lives?
We'd love to hear tips on a fair distribution method! 🙏
🔐 We’ve made our user management much more powerful!
You can now give your team members access to specific sites. There’s also a new guest role for people that shouldn’t add new sites to your account.
More info: