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DNS record checks
Hi,
I have implemented a simple php script on one of my servers to take a query via GET method and returns the requested DNS record.
The site is restricted to updown.io servers and uses a URL in the following format :https://webserver.com/lookup.php?T=A&D=google.co.uk&R=IP
This uses the following fields :
T - Type of record to return eg. MX/A/TXT
D - Domain to check eg. google.co.uk
R - Record field to return. eg. ip for ip address
The server code simple checks if the record type is a valid one we accept, checks the domain name is in a valid format…16 votesThanks for the suggestion, I’ve just merged this with another one about DNS check. This is something we’re thinking about but is not planned yet.
In the meantime what you made is a great workaround, if other users are interested I encourage them to leave a comment here with a way to contact them so you may give them the URL of your service if you want.
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STARTTLS check for SMTP servers
Ath the moment SMTP ports may be checked for responsiveness but not for valid connections. Interesting would be:
- check if there is really a SMTP server
- check for STARTTLS
- check for valid certificate / expiring certificate
- check for MTA-STS/DANE
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Nothing!
Do not give in to feature creep :-)
15 votesThanks ☺
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Allow custom headers in webhook requests
It would be great if you could sent custom headers (and values) in webhook requests. This would allow you to add an API-key as a header which you can check in the system receiving the webhooks to validate it is actually the updown-io services sending the request.
Currently this is do-able by adding a GET-parameter with a key to the webhook URL, but sending custom headers would be a more preferable option.
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Custom CSS for Public Status Pagess
It would be nice to have either page specific or account wide custom stylesheet applied to the public status pages. Specifically, I'd use it to draw more attention to the translation dropdown and to eliminate some whitespace.
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JSON version of the status page
Having a JSON version of the status page allows any possible integration with 3rd party tools/dashboards. Lowers the amount of API requests required to get similar content (even though I think not all of the information that is currently visible on the status page is also available using the existing API). Probably you want to put it behind the API key except maybe for public status pages.
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iOS Application
iOS app with push notifications
14 votesWe don't want to invest any time or money in this for now. We already provide fast and robust push-notification friendly channels (e.g. Telegram, Slack, SMS) and the website is responsive.
One of our clients did start working on a third party app though, so you may give it a try using this TestFlight link.
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Multiple email addresses for the weekly report
I'd like to be able to enter multiple email addresses for the weekly report. For example, certain department managers would like to receive a weekly report of the checks, but not be disturbed every time a check goes up or down.
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Russia?
Add a new check point in Russia. Moscow and Novosibirsk.
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Negative monitoring
I would like to have checks which fail when something is there which shouldn't be there. For example a http endpoint which should only be available through https.
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Add blacklist monitoring
Having a blacklist monitor to check for IP / domain / mail blacklisting would be great.
Some big web companies are hosting thousand of users and shared IPs are regularly blacklisted due to phishing or malware distribution.Similar services:
https://www.site24x7.com/tools/blacklist-check.html
https://www.inmotionhosting.com/support/tools/blacklist-check/12 votes -
Integration with Geckoboard
Geckboard is a popular system to display a variety of metrics via a dashboard for the room. I understand this can probably be done with the API, but if you did a direct integration with them I'm sure you'd see your sign-ups increase since you'd be on their integration list.
Just my 2 cents worth. :)
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Label (alias) for notification recipients
For notification recipients both sms and email it would be very useful to be able to label these with an alias/display name (especially for sms recipients)
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Weekly reports via Slack
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Weekly reports via SlackIt's wonderful to have weekly reports sent by email. It would be awesome to have the option to send them to Slack as well. If we could choose email and/or Slack for reports (like for the alerts) it would be ideal.
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Just keep making it awesome!
Updown.io is one of the best services I have EVER interacted with! Thank you!
11 votesWill do ☺
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Break down the time taken by redirects since they're often a key part of the user experience
Currently updown.io breaks out the time of normal requests into:
- name lookup;
- connection;
- tls handshake; and
- response time
but shows redirects as a single block of time. It would be useful to see redirects broken out the same way.
Users often type naked domains, like example.com, into browsers. That might lead to this sequence of redirects:
http://example.com/ -> https://example.com https://example.com/ -> https://www.example.com(HSTS preload requires the first redirect; you can't go straight from http://example.com/ to https://www.example.com.)
Depending on how you're handling both http and naked domains the time for the redirects can be much greater than the time of…
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Add African Location
It would be awesome to have a server in Africa so that updown.io would cover every continent on this planet.
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Voice Call Alerts
Alert via automated voice call to multiple numbers
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Better expired SSL certificate notifications
Notifications about expired certificates can be improved (made more noticable) in 2 ways:
1. Display expired certificates as downtime (or use some other highlighting) in weekly reports (and other periodic reports).
2. Send repeated notifications for expired certificates (as it is done for downtime).8 votes -
Signal as an alert channel
It would be great to have Signal (https://signal.org) as an Alert Channel. Other services support this so it might be possible (e.g. https://healthchecks.io/). I find this very convenient as Signal is very popular here (and also cheaper than SMS I suppose).
8 votes
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