Some of our users are constantly using our “Live status” page by their monitoring teams. Primarily for this reason we are introducing secondary backup web client which can be used to monitor “Live status” page even if there is issue or outage of primary web client. Backup web client is actively running on different datacenter and can be accessed by navigating to web2.appbeat.io (this is also displayed in application footer).

Today we published new version of AppBeat (1.3.4) which allows users to enable embeddable status images for each service. You can access this feature from “Public status / Embed Status”: Images are periodically updated with latest statuses by following rules: if there is no status change for your service then image is refreshed every 5 minutes if service status changes (from good to error, from warning to good, etc.) then we try to upload new status image as soon as possible (this is usually less than 30 seconds after you received your notification) Status images can be embedded to your internal dashboards or internet facing websites.

We have successfully migrated our web application from .NET Core RC1 to .NET Core RC2 and published it on test Linux instance (CentOS). Best of all: AppBeat binaries are 100% identical to those on Windows (same cross platform codebase!) and were simply copied to Linux… And it works! It works great! Here are some setup details for those who are interested. First, you have to install .NET Core runtime by following simple instructions on Microsoft .

If your technical support is using AppBeat Live status screen to monitor current performance and availability of your systems, we have new useful feature for you. You can now enable sound alarm which is automatically triggered when “Live status” icon turns red. This additionally minimizes chance for missed alarms (other notifications, such as Slack, PagerDuty, email, SMS are of course also dispatched as configured). You can enable / disable this feature by clicking bell icon as shown below:

Today we published AppBeat 1.3.0 which implements support for third-party notification providers (from Account / Integrations). We are also happy to announce that first provider to be implemented in AppBeat is PagerDuty (available to all users, even those on Free Plan). You can add PagerDuty to your AppBeat account by following these easy steps: click “Account / Integrations”: click on “PagerDuty” button to add new notification channel (you can add multiple PagerDuty notification types; ServiceKey can be obtained on your PagerDuty website): once you have tested and added your PagerDuty notification please click on “Services & Checks”.