Uptime, a Refreshed Dashboard, and a Lot More

It's been a while since our last update — longer than we'd have liked. We wanted to explain why, and more importantly, show you what we've been building.

Why the silence

The truth is simple: this release took longer than planned because we didn't want to ship it half-baked. Uptime touches something people rely on to know when things break — that's not a module we were willing to rush. We'd rather be late and solid than on time and shaky. Thanks for bearing with us — here's what the wait got you.

Introducing Uptime

The biggest piece of this update is a brand new service: Uptime. It's made up of two components — Monitors and Status Pages — and together they cover everything from "is my server still alive" to "how do I tell my users about it."

Monitors

Monitors continuously check your infrastructure using a range of methods:

• Ping

• SMTP / POP3 / IMAP

• DNS

• TCP / UDP ping

• URL checking, hosted directly on Flowtag

When a monitor detects an outage, Flowtag automatically creates an incident — a shared space where you and your team can discuss what's happening, track the timeline, and coordinate a response, all in one place.

Status Pages

Status Pages let you share that information with the people who actually depend on your app — your end users. You can:

• Automate reports by connecting a status page directly to your monitors

• Or write and publish updates manually, on your own terms

Status pages aren't just for incidents, either — you can also use them to announce planned maintenance windows, so users know downtime is coming before it happens.

And because we know status pages are as much about branding as they are about function, they now come in four themes:

• Vanilla

• Lavender

• Lily

• Orchid

Vanilla

Lavender

Lily

Orchid

A refreshed dashboard

The dashboard got a visual overhaul, and the headline addition is a brand new homepage — a proper landing spot when you log in, instead of dropping straight into a single module.

Faster search

We rebuilt the search engine under the hood, so finding what you need across your projects is noticeably faster.

Notifications, reworked

Notifications also got attention this round:

• A refreshed look across the board

• Push notifications

  , connectable right from your browser

• Do Not Disturb mode

  — flip it on when you're heading out on vacation and want to actually disconnect, without worrying about being paged

A new look for the blog

Even this blog got a refresh — you're looking at it right now.

A new contact page

We also added a dedicated contact page, so reaching us no longer means digging for an email address.

What's next

That's the update. Uptime has been the biggest single addition to Flowtag since launch, and we're glad to finally have it in your hands. As always, we'd love to hear what you think — reach out and let us know.