PieMonitor Status Pages & A Horror Story

Another Tuesday, another Pie.host update!

Last week, we continued improving PieMonitor, our per-minute uptime monitoring service for websites, databases, WebSockets, and other services.

This week's updates focus on giving you more visibility into your monitored infrastructure, not just whether something is up or down, but also whether the supporting pieces around it are approaching expiry.

What We Shipped

Public Status Pages for PieMonitor

PieMonitor now supports status pages for your monitors.

You can create a status page for a single monitor or group multiple monitors together. This gives you a simple way to share the current health of your services with your team, customers, or anyone who needs visibility into your infrastructure.

For example, if you're running an API, website, and WebSocket service, you can group those monitors into one status page and give users a single place to check whether everything is operational.

SSL & Domain Expiry Monitoring

PieMonitor can now keep an eye on two things that are easy to forget until they cause a problem: SSL certificates and domain registrations.

The monitor checks SSL certificate expiry and domain expiry so you can catch upcoming expirations before they turn into an outage.

This is particularly useful for websites and APIs where an expired certificate can suddenly make an otherwise healthy service inaccessible to users.

We Made a Horror Story 👻

We also made something a little different.

If you've ever wondered what happens when you don't monitor your infrastructure until it's too late, we created a short horror story for you.

It's fun, slightly painful, and unfortunately based on problems that can actually happen to production systems.

Check it out: PieMonitor Horror Story

Small Improvements

Alongside these updates, we continued making smaller improvements and fixes across Pie.host to keep the platform reliable and easier to use.

We're building PieMonitor around a simple idea: infrastructure problems are much easier to deal with when you know about them before your users do.

Try PieMonitor and see what you can catch before it becomes a production incident.