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New roadmap & feature request hub

We’re excited to announce that StatusGator has officially moved to a new platform for collecting feature requests, organizing our roadmap, and keeping you updated on what we’re building. This new system makes it easier than ever to share ideas, vote on improvements, and follow the progress of the features that matter most to you.

Incident IQ: Outage announcement bar

Our Incident IQ integration just got better. Meet the Outage Announcement Bar, a simple way to surface live outage details inside Incident IQ. This new feature makes it even easier for users, support teams, and administrators to stay aware of service disruptions the moment they happen. This update builds on our existing Incident IQ integration, which already syncs outage reports from your StatusGator status page into Incident IQ.

Stop Manual Checks: Automating DORA Compliance for Cloud Dependencies

Financial services organizations face increasing pressure to comply with the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) while managing complex cloud infrastructures. Manual compliance checks for third-party dependencies are no longer sustainable. This guide explores how to automate DORA third-party risk management, ensuring continuous compliance without the overhead of manual processes.

Third-Party Vendor Status Monitoring: Automate Visibility and Accountability

Modern IT teams rely on dozens, or even hundreds, of third-party SaaS tools. From Workday and Cloudflare to Slack, Zoom, and GitHub, your business depends on these services to function. When a vendor outage occurs, the consequences are immediate: internal tools fail, support tickets spike, and leadership demands answers. Recent events, like the widespread Cloudflare outage in November 2025, highlight how quickly things can spiral out of control.

Building Your DORA Register: Map Critical ICT Third-Party Providers

The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) requires financial institutions to maintain a comprehensive register of their critical ICT third-party providers. This register isn't just a compliance checkbox, it's a strategic tool for managing operational risk and ensuring business continuity. Building an effective DORA register requires systematic identification, classification, and continuous monitoring of your SaaS dependencies.
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Early IT Outage Alerts in Action: 20+ Major Cloud Incidents of 2025

The IT cloud outages in 2025 are already shaping up to be a wake-up call for IT teams, MSPs, and developers worldwide. Even the most reliable services can experience disruptions, impacting workflows, customer experience, and business continuity. While major providers often take time to acknowledge incidents publicly, StatusGator's Early Warning Signals empower organizations to detect outages in real time, sometimes hours before official confirmation.

The Internet broke again. StatusGator can help

November 18, 2025 — Cloudflare is back online after a sweeping global outage disrupted millions of people across the world. For several hours, websites, apps, APIs, and entire business operations were knocked offline. IT teams everywhere were once again scrambling to make sense of the chaos. Outages are no longer rare. Every week it feels like another provider takes down a huge portion of the internet.

StatusGator earns SOC 2 Type 2 certification

We are absolutely thrilled to share some momentous news: StatusGator has officially achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification! This isn’t just another checkbox on a compliance list – it’s a powerful validation of our dedication to safeguarding your data and delivering the reliable service you depend on.

Outage map now available in your StatusGator board

We’re excited to introduce a helpful new update to your StatusGator experience – the service outage map is now built directly into your StatusGator account. StatusGator has displayed outage heatmaps on our public website’s service landing pages. These maps helped users understand where issues were being reported across the globe. Now, we’ve taken that same valuable visibility and placed it inside your board.

Google Workspace outage on November 12: How StatusGator detected it first

On November 12, 2025, users around the world faced difficulty accessing Google Workspace products including Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets, and Google Slides. While the outage did not impact every user, it was widespread and disruptive. StatusGator detected the incident early using real user data and issued an Early Warning Signal long before Google officially acknowledged the issue.