ReleasesPlatform updates, new features, and improvements

A chronological summary of new features, improvements, and platform updates shipped to WebSignal.

2026

July 2026

• More monitors on Growth: The Growth plan now includes 75 monitors, up from 25, so you can keep an eye on far more of your sites and services without stepping up to Pro.
• Rename your workspace: You can now rename a workspace at any time from the members & settings screen, so its name can grow with your team or business.
• Personalised invitation emails: Workspace invitations now name the person who invited you, spell out the role you’ll receive, and show exactly when the invite expires, making them clearer and more trustworthy to accept.
• Smoother team onboarding: Fixed an issue that could stop a brand-new teammate from accepting a workspace invitation on their first sign-in. New members can now join in a single click, every time.
• Workspace & teams management polish: A consistent visual refresh across the Teams, Status Pages, and workspace settings screens, unified buttons, spacing, and layout for a cleaner, more predictable experience.
• Bug fixes, performance improvements, and reliability enhancements.

June 2026

• Teams & on-call scheduling: Organise your workspace members into teams and give each team an on-call rotation, daily or weekly, with a calendar of overrides for one-off swaps. Assign your service groups to a team, and when one of its monitors has an incident WebSignal now pages whoever is on call right now (by email, and SMS if they’ve added a number) instead of notifying everyone. The number of teams scales with your plan and on-call rotations are available from Growth upward.
• Workspaces & team collaboration: You can now invite teammates into a shared workspace and monitor together. Invite people by email and assign each member a role, Owner, Admin, Editor, Responder, or Viewer. Your monitors, action groups, status pages, and incidents are shared across the workspace, with what each person can do controlled by their role: Owners and Admins manage members and billing, Editors create and edit resources, Responders acknowledge and resolve incidents, and Viewers get read-only access.
• Email invitations: Workspace invitations now arrive as a branded WebSignal email with a secure, time-limited accept link, so a teammate can join in a single click.
• Reliable scheduled reports: Fixed an issue that prevented scheduled daily monitor reports from being generated. Your daily summaries now arrive as expected.
• Dashboard loads reliably on refresh: Resolved an issue where the dashboard overview and monitor list could appear empty after a hard browser refresh. Your monitors now load correctly every time.
• Status page polish: Fixed blank-page and theme-handling issues on public status pages for a smoother, more consistent experience for your visitors.
• Bug fixes, performance improvements, and reliability enhancements.

May 2026

• Public Status Pages: You can now create a public status page for your services. Add any of your service groups to a page, publish it under a custom URL slug, and your users can check live health at any time, no login required. Pages display real-time status indicators, 24-hour availability timelines per service group, and a configurable incident history. You can also control whether uptime percentages, latency estimates, and search engine indexing are enabled. Available on Growth and Pro plans.
• Operator status updates: Post manual updates directly to a status page to communicate planned maintenance, active investigations, or resolutions. Updates can be linked to an existing incident and displayed publicly with a status label (Investigating, Identified, Monitoring, Resolved).
• Service group rename: You can now rename service groups directly from the dashboard without having to delete and recreate them.
• Smarter alert thresholds: When a monitor is configured to alert only after multiple consecutive failures, individual failures below that threshold are now recorded as a “Degraded” incident in the dashboard. This gives you visibility into transient issues without triggering unnecessary alerts. A full alert only fires once your configured threshold is reached.
• More reliable recovery notifications: Fixed an issue that could cause a false “monitor recovered” notification immediately after a monitor was first created or re-enabled.
• Bug fixes and reliability improvements.

April 2026

• Service Groups: Monitors can now be organised into service groups for better visibility. Related monitors appear together on the dashboard so you get an at-a-glance view of each service’s health, and each group surfaces its own up/down status.
• Global Action Groups: Notification channels (email, SMS, webhook) are now managed as reusable action groups that can be shared across multiple monitors. Create a group once and attach it to as many monitors as you need.
• Webhook action groups: Webhook notification channels now have full create, edit, and delete management. Integrate with Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty, or any custom endpoint to receive downtime alerts wherever your team works.
• Accelerated re-checks: When a monitor enters a degraded or unavailable state, the scheduler automatically switches to 1-minute check intervals for faster recovery detection. Normal check intervals resume once the monitor recovers. This applies to all plans.
• Dashboard auto-refresh: The dashboard now automatically refreshes in the background so monitor statuses stay up to date without manually reloading the page.
• Missed checks visible in graphs: Availability and latency charts now highlight periods where scheduled checks couldn’t run, giving you a complete and honest picture of monitoring coverage.
• Saved dashboard preferences: Your dashboard layout and view preferences are now persisted across sessions, so you always return to the same setup.
• Latency monitor scheduling aligned to plan tier: Latency monitors now run on the same tier-based check frequency as HTTP monitors, keeping data collection consistent across all monitor types.
• Availability chart accuracy: Resolved an issue where monitors with many data points showed false gaps in the availability chart due to a query limit.
• Stripe billing reliability: Improved handling of subscription renewal and update webhook events for more reliable billing processing.
• Visual refresh: Updated button styles, app colour palette, and dropdown designs for a more polished and consistent look across the application.
• Bug fixes, performance improvements, and test coverage enhancements.

March 2026

• Developer documentation site: All-new docs site with dedicated pages for REST API and MCP references, release history, and on-page navigation.
• AI-powered integrations (MCP): Connect your monitoring data to AI assistants and automation tools using the Model Context Protocol. Access is gated by plan (read: Growth+, write: Pro+).
• AI discovery & device-code login: AI clients can automatically discover WebSignal’s capabilities and authenticate without a browser.
• Multi-monitor type support: Monitors now support HTTP Availability, SSL Certificate, Latency, DNS, and TCP/UDP check types with dedicated configuration.
• Monitor type badges: Dashboard monitor cards and incident views now display type-specific badges for quick identification.
• Incident auto-resolution: Incidents are automatically resolved when the monitor recovers, reducing manual workload.
• AI Configuration toggle: Enable or disable AI/MCP access directly from your account settings.
• Dark mode for docs: The documentation site now supports light and dark themes with automatic system preference detection.
• Bug fixes, performance improvements, and security enhancements.

February 2026

• Incident notes & acknowledgment: Add, edit, and delete notes on incidents. Acknowledge incidents to suppress repeat notifications.
• Incident detail page: Dedicated incident page with monitor report, event timeline, and contextual performance data.
• Incident date range filtering: Filter incidents by custom date ranges to quickly find what you need.
• Improved quick-view modal: Better loading states and responsive sizing when previewing monitor checks.
• Monitor limit display: Account page now shows a clear, color-coded monitor count against your plan limit.
• Platform performance improvements and security hardening.

January 2026

• Improved onboarding experience: Streamlined signup flow so you can start monitoring faster.
• More reliable email notifications: Alert emails are now processed asynchronously for faster, more reliable delivery.
• Bug fixes and reliability improvements across the platform.

2025

September – December 2025

• Redesigned web application: Faster, more responsive interface with improved navigation and real-time updates.
• Improved sign-in experience: Smoother, more secure authentication flow.
• Platform infrastructure upgrades for improved performance and reliability.

January – February 2025

• SMS alert support: Receive downtime alerts via SMS. Add and verify your phone number from account settings.
• More accurate monitor status: Improved detection of down/up transitions for fewer false positives.
• Improved alert emails: Refreshed email templates for incident alerts and reports.

2024

August – November 2024

• Major UI redesign: Refreshed dashboard with improved charts, data visualization, and a modern look.
• Incident management overhaul: New incident tracking system with improved status management and timeline views.
• Live dashboard updates: Real-time data refresh with automatic reconnection, so your dashboard always shows the latest status.
• Monitor ordering: Dashboard monitors sorted by enabled/disabled status for easier management.
• Usability improvements and bug fixes.

May – June 2024

• Availability report graphs: Interactive availability charts with time-range navigation.
• Multiple email alert groups: Configure multiple email alert channels per monitor to notify different teams.

April 2024

• Availability reports: On-demand availability reports with detailed outage breakdowns and uptime percentage calculations.

March 2024

• 30-day free trial: Extended free trial from 14 to 30 days for paid plans.
• Performance improvements and platform upgrades.

January – February 2024

• Email reports: On-demand and scheduled email reports with availability statistics and charts.
• Custom HTTP headers: Add, edit, and delete custom HTTP headers for monitor requests.
• Redesigned alert emails: Improved notification templates for incidents and reports.
• Reliability improvements and bug fixes.

2023

September – December 2023

• Improved API: Restructured API endpoints for consistency and better developer experience.
• Pagination: Server-side pagination for monitors, incidents, and availability data.
• Improved onboarding: Streamlined signup process with better error handling.
• Terms of service & privacy policy: Legal pages and GDPR-compliant cookie consent.
• Quick test: Run ad-hoc availability checks directly from the monitor edit screen.
• Better incident detection: More accurate downtime detection and reporting.

July – August 2023

• Custom HTTP headers: Support for custom request headers on monitor checks.
• Monitor editing improvements: Enhanced edit form with better validation and UX.
• Improved failure detection: Better detection of network-level failures during availability checks.

June 2023

• Free trial for paid plans: 14-day free trial for Growth and Pro plans with automatic expiration handling.
• Subscription management: Manage your plan, payment methods, and billing directly from your account.
• No credit card required: Sign up for the free Starter plan without providing payment information.

May 2023

• Flexible check intervals: Check intervals tied to subscription tier (Starter: 1 hr, Growth: 15 min, Pro: 1 min).
• Delete monitors: Remove monitors without losing historical data.
• Delete your account: Full account deletion workflow for complete data removal.

April 2023

• Rebrand to WebSignal: New name, new domain, fresh look.

March 2023

• Multiple checks per monitor: Run multiple check types against a single URL.
• UI improvements: Updated colour scheme, improved typography, and new tooltip components.
• In-app changelog: Track platform updates directly from the app.
• Alert recipient limits: Plan-based limits on the number of email alert recipients.

January – February 2023

• Subscription plans & payments: Purchase Starter, Growth, or Pro plans directly from the app with secure checkout.
• Product & pricing management: Transparent pricing tiers with feature-based gating.
• Uptime statistics: Dashboard now displays uptime percentage, last-online time, and availability scatter charts.
• Loading spinners: Visual feedback on page loads for a smoother user experience.
• Bug fixes, validation improvements, and checkout refinements.

2022

November – December 2022

• User authorization: Secure per-user access so each account only sees its own monitors.
• Edit & delete monitors: Full lifecycle management for monitors from the dashboard.
• Real-time status updates: Live monitor status pushed to the dashboard as checks complete.
• Email alert notifications: Receive an email when your website goes down, with duplicate suppression to avoid alert fatigue.
• Account types: Foundation for subscription tiers with per-plan feature access.
• Test notifications: Send a test alert to verify your notification setup is working.
• Form validation, layout improvements, and bug fixes.

October 2022

• Background monitoring engine: Automated scheduled checks run in the background to monitor your sites 24/7.
• Monitor check worker: Dedicated worker process that performs HTTP availability checks and records results.
• Local development support: Run the full monitoring stack locally for testing and development.
• Dashboard improvements: Localised timestamps, better formatting, and uptime status displays.

September 2022

• API & web application launch: Core REST API and web dashboard for managing website monitors.
• Add & manage monitors: Create monitors and view their status from a central dashboard.
• CI/CD pipeline: Automated build, test, and deployment pipeline for rapid iteration.
• User authentication: Secure sign-in with identity provider integration.

August 2022

• Project inception: WebSignal monitoring platform created, initial proof of concept for website uptime monitoring.