Today we've launched a new version of our status page designed to convey more relevant data to you and to make the status page itself more resilient and accessible in emergencies.
So first of all, the page has a brand new address, previously our status page was at proxycheck.io/status which meant it could potentially become inaccessible if our entire website were to be down. This has now been changed to status.proxycheck.io which as a sub-domain can be operated independently of our normal service cluster.
The second big change is we now show status history. The image above illustrates the new pill-style history graph showcasing the past 3-day status of our API in increments of one hour. Each pill can show multiple colors at once with the size of the color indicating the service status and how long that status occurred. When hovering your cursor over a pill you'll receive an interface similar to the one on the right below featuring current status, latency and any specific service messages.
On the left above you can also see smaller status panels for specific server nodes. If you view the new status page you'll actually notice that the most important statuses are at the top and shown larger with more visible history and as we get down to the less important things like individual service nodes we display them more densely.
You may also notice that some services not relevant to customers have been replaced on the new status page with more appropriate services such as email services and the Custom List downloader service.
One last thing to mention about the design is that all the displayed dates and times are localised to you as and when you view the page making it much simpler to determine when events occurred without needing to look at unfamiliar timezones.
Before we decided to make our status page (absolutely everything about this feature is custom) we looked at many commercial and open-source solutions and although many of them could accomplish what we needed none of them fit the design aesthetic of our website or they didn't display the exact information we needed in the way we wanted it shown.
That's why we chose to design this ourselves, the flexibility that building things yourself affords can not be overlooked and that extends to even small things like making sure the hover-tooltip stays on the screen when you get near a browser window edge which was something we found even some commercial status products didn't offer.
So that's the update for today we hope you enjoy the new status page and will bookmark it for your convenience and as always have a wonderful week!