Today we published AppBeat 1.3.5 with following features: added context menus for services, checks and contacts for more clean user interface when you right click on check in “Service & Checks / Checks”, there is new “Failure/success notes…” option. This allows you to include additional instructions for your support staff for each check and is included in sent notifications. “Account / Personalization” - possible to customize notification subject and short message (SMS) template “Account / Integrations” - added dynamic webhook provider which supports request customization - can be used with any notification provider that supports JSON payload check name is now included by default in notification subject and short message “Account / Security” - current password must be entered before changing to new password other minor improvements Context menu support: !

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 .

To make everything fully transparent we have added “Incidents” section into our Help module. Here you can find all AppBeat operation issues that were detected, with detailed description what went wrong, how service was affected and how could we prevent similar issue in future.