ReleasesPlatform updates, new features, and improvements

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

2026

September 2026

• Slack and Microsoft Teams alerts: Send alerts straight to the channel your team already works in. Available on Growth, Pro and Enterprise, alongside SMS and webhooks: 3 Slack and 3 Teams channels on Growth, 10 of each on Pro, and 50 of each on Enterprise.
• Clearer plan comparison: The pricing page now reads as a ladder. Each paid plan states what it adds to the one below it rather than repeating the whole list, so it is easier to see what an upgrade actually gets you. Check regions, Slack and Teams channel counts are all listed per plan for the first time.

August 2026

• Multi-region monitoring: Your monitors can now run their checks from up to 8 global locations: North Europe (included with every monitor), East US, West US, Brazil, Singapore, Australia, India, and Japan. Choose the regions for each monitor from the add and edit screens and see at a glance how your service looks from where your users actually are. The number of additional regions scales with your plan: 2 on Growth, 5 on Pro, and 7 on Enterprise.
• Per-region latency breakdown: The monitor report now draws a separate latency line for each check region, alongside a breakdown listing the average, 95th, and 99th percentile response times per region, so a slow route from one part of the world can’t hide inside a global average.
• Smarter availability timeline: The availability strip on the monitor report now shows a constant number of uniform time slices whatever time window you choose, aggregating older checks as the window widens. A partial state highlights periods where some regions failed while others stayed healthy, and the time-range selector now navigates the report window correctly.
• Service group cards list every monitor: Dashboard group cards now show the URLs of all monitors in the group (the first two, with an expander for the rest), and each one links straight to that monitor’s report.
• Move monitors between service groups: Reorganise your dashboard without recreating anything. Pick any set of monitors in a group, move them to another service group, and optionally delete the old group once it’s empty; the monitors keep running throughout.
• Slack and Microsoft Teams alerts: Send alerts straight to the channel your team already works in. Add a Slack or Teams channel from the Action Groups screen, paste the channel’s webhook URL, and send a test message to confirm it works before you save. Alerts arrive as formatted messages naming the monitor, its status, the URL, when it happened, and why the check failed, with the time shown in each reader’s own timezone. Available on Growth plans and above.
• Configurable check timeouts: Tune how long a check waits for a response before counting as down, from 5 to 60 seconds per monitor. The default stays at 15 seconds. Available on Growth plans and above.
• Flexible response body checks: A body check can now match when the response contains your expected text (the new default), matches it exactly, or matches a regular expression. That makes it practical to watch for a health sentinel or version string inside a full page, rather than needing the entire body to match. Existing monitors keep their current exact-match behaviour.
• Status page email subscribers: Visitors can now subscribe to a status page and be emailed when you post an update or when an incident affects the services it covers. Subscribing uses double opt-in, so an address is only added once its owner confirms it, and every message carries its own unsubscribe link. The subscribe form sits in a compact box at the foot of the page.
• Branded status pages: On paid plans you can upload your own banner image to the top of a status page, and subscriber emails now arrive as branded HTML rather than plain text. Pages without a custom banner fall back to a WebSignal logo that matches the page’s light or dark theme.
• Quicker status page setup: The name and the URL slug are both optional now. Leave the slug blank and one is generated from the name, and a page without a name no longer renders an empty title. Operator updates have moved into an Actions menu and the Systems editor has been tidied up.
• Status page updates now appear publicly: Updates you post to a status page are shown in an Incident History section on the page itself, controlled by the “show incident history” toggle. Previously they were only emailed to subscribers.
• Clearer failure reasons: Reports and alerts now tell you what actually went wrong, distinguishing timeouts, DNS failures, TLS failures, connection refusals, and unexpected status codes or content, instead of showing the same generic network message for every one. A check that never got a response no longer displays an invented status code.
• Monitors with no expectations no longer report down: A monitor left without expected status codes or an expected body now means “up if it responds” rather than failing every check, and the app no longer lets you save a monitor into that state by accident.
• Checks keep to their schedule: A group of scheduling fixes means your monitors are checked when they should be. Check deadlines are now anchored so a monitor’s cadence stops drifting later and later over time, a monitor with more than one check type wakes on its shortest interval, the accelerated re-checks that follow a failure now decay back to normal and are capped rather than running on indefinitely, and a concurrency limit that could leave most monitors waiting on a busy worker has been lifted.
• Easier Action Group setup: The name field no longer arrives prefilled with “ActionGroup”, changing the channel type no longer steals focus while you are typing, and names are now checked on the server as well as in the browser so an invalid name is caught wherever it comes from.
• Create Team works first time: Fixed a problem where the Create Team button closed the very form it was meant to open, and another where the form could submit before the page had finished loading.
• Expired invitations can be re-issued: A workspace invitation that has already expired can now be sent again, instead of leaving the invitee with no way in.
• Your own User-Agent is respected: A User-Agent header you set on a monitor now overrides WebSignal’s default instead of being ignored.
• Sessions recover on their own: If your sign-in expires while you have the dashboard open, WebSignal now quietly signs you back in and returns you to the page you were on, instead of leaving a blank screen.
• No false downtime during our releases: Checks that were in flight while we deploy are no longer recorded as failures on your monitors; they simply run again.
• Bug fixes, performance improvements, and reliability enhancements.

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.