StatusCast Updates Status Page Service

2019 Q2 Highlights:

• Successful completion of SOC 2 attestation
• The implementation of over 30 new features and enhancements designed to improve the service

StatusCast 2019 Q2 Release

Announcements

• StatusCast achieves SOC 2 Compliance
• StatusCast releases a new API developer site

New Features

• Support for displaying over 200 (and growing) external cloud providers directly on your status page.
• New email integrations with SendGrid, MailGun, and Mandrill allowing customers to use their own private email accounts for high speed email sending.
• New or enhanced integrations with DataDog, PagerDuty, Microsoft Teams, Okta, and Google Single-Sign-On.
• Linked Components
• Added ability to set parent component’s status to less critical status of child component if status bubbling is turned on.
• New administration reports for auditing notifications, subscribers, and uptime history
• New API call to invalidate web sessions
• Allow enterprise accounts to specify their own reply-to email address during incident notification.
• Generic Webhook integrations for customer performance and uptime monitors.
• Support for local browser timezone/locale.
• Customizable maintenance auto closure messages.
• New macros for displaying parent components within email templates.
• Added a password macro to user email templates
• New API support for JWT refresh tokens.

Enhancements

• Ability to set and display an icon next to each component.
• Ability for status page to automatically filter and show only subscribed-to components for authenticated users.
• Added a date range to let users select a specific date range in the Uptime History page.
• Added an option on Uptime History page to hide incidents that don’t cause downtime.
• Added an option to let users export the results of the uptime history report.
• Added an option to let users select multiple components in the uptime history report.
• As an API user I would like to get a list of ‘All components’ only subscribers
• Ability to add tags to subscribers for custom organization and grouping.
• Allow administrators to send notifications for posts with no notification history.
• Update the dashboard grid widget to provide the option to hide or show cloud components
• Updated the component list widget to provide the option to hide or show cloud components
• Added a new default status page theme called ‘StatusCast’.
• Added a responsive option to the dashboard grid widget to improve mobile experience.
• Enhanced Subscribers API to include component subscriptions.
• Added a layout option for the current status widget to display the “full path” of an affected component

Bugs

• Deleting a component does not remove the corresponding component subscriptions.
• Removing a subscriber from a component removes all their subscriptions
• Date notification completed on dashboard is double converting the time
• When adding a new status page to your account it’s getting set as inactive
• Status pages or admin panel doesn’t load in IE 11
• CSV import failures not notifying end users
• Return URL not actually sending user back to the appropriate page
• Hidden components are visible in the subscribe modal on the status page
• Subscribing with only a phone number throws an error on status pages
• Admin uptime history report always shows 100% even when the status page version shows downtime.