Getting on the same page

In 2021, most companies have a status page set up to make it easier to publicly communicate the real-time status of their service to their customers.

However, when you're in the heat of an incident, it can be challenging to remember to update it. Where did we put the login, who has the right permissions, where do I go to update it? These are things we've been asked about time and time again by customers.

To help make things easier, we've brought one of the most popular status page providers out there - statuspage.io - right into your incident channels. Type /incident statuspage to notify customers of new incidents, provide updates to ongoing ones, and to let them know when the impact is over.

To get started using this for your incidents, head over to our shiny new documentation which takes you through how to install and use it.

Statuspage has a great feature inbuilt that allows you to pre-fill the impact, update text, and affected components. This makes it less stressful when figuring out what to write. We don't currently support this, but we hope to have it out in a couple of weeks. If this is something you'd like to see, let us know!.

What we shipped

• 👷🏽‍♀️ We're prototyping using slash commands to interact with the bot. This provides us with a lot more powers out of the box. We're seeing what it feels like first, before rolling it out more widely. Watch this space! 👀
• 👷🏽‍♀️ On the very rare occassion that we crashed, we'd return the default Heroku 'app crashed' page. We now return something more beautiful, and witty. We hope you never see it 🙈.
• 🐛 When adding an Opsgenie integration, we weren't as thorough as we liked with checking that you were on the right tier to have API access enabled (grumble, grumble). We now check that at integration time - sorry for the hassle, Ravelin!