On September 8th we deployed AppBeat 1.4.3 which brings you more detailed logging for your web monitors. If error occurs we will save server response (HTTP body with header) and send you unique link where you or your support team can view it. Previously you would receive just HTTP status code. Detailed logs can now help you to diagnose root cause of problem more quickly. They also allow you to keep historic track of incidents (please see note below about how long we keep your detailed logs).

We are continuing with our rapid development and last week new version was published (1.4.2). In this version we introduced new powerful report - Logs & Performance, and published final version of downtime report. Here are some screenshots of new features. Performance statistics & hourly averaged response time chart for your periodic check: Filtering monitoring logs: As you may noticed, we now also allow you to filter logs and calculate downtime reports by “service group”.

Yesterday we published new AppBeat version with improved downtime report. We also added service timeline where you can visually track details about downtimes: List of all changes for version 1.4.1: improved “Downtime overview” report (added more filters and options, added uptime/downtime timeline, more accurate service downtime calculation - if multiple checks on same service fail at same time, we now automatically exclude overlapping intervals) update “Service groups” tab moved to “Services & Checks” removed removed “Uptime” component from “Statistics & Logs” (replaced by more powerful “Downtime overview” report)

It is true! It is so powerful and useful feature that we use it as much as possible. Here is recent code snippet which uses “Linq magic”, resulting in much smaller and more readable code: Thank you LINQ team!

Yesterday we rolled out new version of AppBeat which brings fully customizable website monitoring (as promised in previous post): List of all changes: more friendly wizard for creating new checks update web monitor is now fully customizable (you can post data, change protocol version, IP version, send custom headers, …) update DNS monitor can now accept IPv4 or IPv6 address of DNS server used for querying removed “Automated Web Testing” early preview is now removed from UI because we received enough initial feedback.