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New in StatusCast: Incident Detail Pages

When your status page is buzzing with lots of information (and we hope it is!) you may find that viewing everything on a single page can be a bit overwhelming. For many of your end-users they may only be interested in a single type of incident or maybe a few components. Today we’ve added a new Incident Details page to help end-users get to the point and see data that’s relevant to them. Here’s how it works.

StatusCast Updates Status Page Service

StatusCast is always working to improve how IT Managers and Helpdesk Teams keep users apprised of system statuses during incidents and scheduled downtime. As a leading provider of corporate and SaaS status pages, we interview users and managers to better understand the status page landscape and use that information to constantly improve our corporate status board service.

Statuspal as Alternative to AdminLabs

It’s always sad to see products shut down, even if they are our competitors, so it’s the case of AdminLabs, as some new customers have brought to our attention. So we want to let any previous users of AdminLabs know, you’re welcome here at Statuspal, let us help you have a smooth transition to the only hosted status pages provider as feature rich, that provides native monitoring features right within your status page dashboard.

Features review from 2017

This is the second edition of our features review from the past few years, here we will share some features that were created or updated in 2017. We are currently moving content from our old blog platform so all features mentioned here are not new but it is always good to take a fresh look at things. And as we are always upgrading & enhancing features, some of the items have been edited to reflect the current state.

Features review from 2016

In this post we want to share some features that were created or updated back in 2016. We are currently moving content from our old blog platform so while you might already know these features it is always good to take a fresh look at things. And as we are always upgrading & enhancing features, some of the items have been edited to reflect the current state.

Deploying a Cachet Status Page to DigitalOcean

If you’ve considered having a status page for your service but are discouraged by the pricing of status page services – consider running an open source status page system like Cachet. This post explains how to install and configure a Cachet status page on the popular DigitalOcean hosting platform. You can run Cachet on DigitalOcean for as little as $5/ month.

Introducing Subscribers for status pages

Your users are now able to subscribe to your status page to receive emails every time you publish an update during incidents! This feature, alongside the Incidents one, is only available starting the Pro plan. If you're on the basic plan, let me know in the chat or by email if you want to try out those new features!