Monitoring
Status Pages
Pricing
Today we’ve made some changes to our Domain and SSL features to make your monitoring set ups more effective, and cover a wider range of use-cases.
Hostname field added to SSL. You can now add a custom hostname to the settings of your SSL test. This is very handy in cases where you need to test with a unique hostname or a specific IP, which is great for bypassing a proxy or dealing with the presence of a load balancer. Existing tests will need to be updated and this setting enabled in order to take advantage of this feature.
We’ve also added the ability to define a custom user agent for the SSL tests. You can set this to whatever you want for development or security purposes, if you do choose to leave this blank then our default StatusCake user agent will be used.
API support for this and the hostname function will be coming soon.
New TLD’s added to our list of supported Domains.
Adding one of these domains will allow you to get the full set of data including expiry and extended WHOis info. If there’s a domain you’d like to see supported that isn’t just yet – please get in touch with our friendly team via live chat, or send us an email at [email protected].
Share this
3 min read On Wednesday 19 August, Monzo had an outage. DownDetector logged more than 3,000 reports by midday. Monzo’s own statement was direct about what it did next: it activated Monzo Stand-in, its fully independent backup bank, while it investigated an issue affecting customers. By the end of the day, Monzo said the issue was resolved and
3 min read GitHub’s incident on 17 August 2026 ran from 13:28 to 21:15 UTC, seven hours and forty-seven minutes. At peak, web and API traffic saw error rates of around 20%, while archive and raw-content downloads reached roughly 50%. SAML and OIDC authentication, SCIM and Team Sync were affected alongside Git operations, Actions, Pages, Issues, Pull Requests
3 min read Adding a new website, launching a customer portal, or handing a service to a new team should be straightforward. Setting up monitoring is part of that job, but it is easy for a manual step to be missed when information is spread across several systems. StatusCake now integrates with viaSocket, giving teams a way to connect
7 min read A website may be standing and still be in trouble. It may answer a request, return a cheerful 200 OK, and yet load slowly enough that visitors begin to lose patience. Its certificate may be nearing expiry. Its domain records may have changed. A server may be filling its disk in the background, patient and
6 min read StatusCake tells you that something might be broken. Hermes can check whether it really looks broken, decide who should hear about it, send the email, and keep the record for tomorrow morning’s summary.
3 min read The allure of OpenClaw is undeniable. You deploy a highly autonomous, self-hosted AI agent, give it access to your repositories and inboxes, and watch it reason through complex workflows while you sleep. It is the dream of the ultimate 10x developer tool realized. But as any veteran DevOps engineer will tell you: running an LLM-backed
Find out everything you need to know in our new uptime monitoring whitepaper 2021
