Posts tagged with ohdear
Sebastian De Deyne explains how the live updating on Oh Dear status pages works.
We were originally going to use Vue for the pages, so we could make the entire view reactive so we could easily fetch and update data with AJAX or websockets. I started building the status page view, but quickly became hesitant about the decision to use Vue. It didn’t feel like the right tool for the job.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
My buddy Mattias and I are running an uptime checker service called Oh Dear. Earlier this week, we've launched a new major feature: status pages.
In this blog post, I'd like to walk you through what status pages have to offer. We'll also dive deep in some technical details of the underlying Laravel app.
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You can use the Oh Dear! API to automatically perform health checks on your app after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
Read more [ohdear.app]
At the Oh Dear blog, my colleague Mattias explains how to use our service to verify that your site is still online after a deploy.
You can use our API to trigger an on demand run of both the uptime check and the broken links checker. If you add this to, say, your deploy script, you can have near-instant validation that your deploy succeeded and didn't break any links & pages.
Read more [ohdear.app]
On the Oh Dear! blog, Mattias Geniar explains how you can use our service to keep your Varnish cache warm.
Slow websites are annoying, right? We sure think so. One common solution is to introduce a caching proxy like Varnish to help cache pages and reduce your server load. The good news is, if you have Oh Dear!, you can let those 2 work together.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Oh Dear!, the monitoring service that my buddy Mattias and I run, now has the ability to auto import sites from Forge.
Forge recently introduced a feature called tags, whichs allows you to add custom tags to any server or site in Forge. We use those tags to determine which sites we should automatically add to your Oh Dear! Account. Every site or server tagged with oh-dear will be added. This allows you to still pick which sites should - or should not - get monitored.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Mattias explains a problem we recently encountered at Oh Dear with Telescope.
For Oh Dear!, we're using Laravel Telescope as a convenient way of tracking/displaying exceptions, runs, ... It stores its exceptions in the database, so you can easily view them again. It stores those in a TEXT field in MySQL, which is limited to 2^16 bytes, or 65536 bytes. Some of our exceptions tend to be pretty long, and they were hitting this limit.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
My buddy Mattias and I run a monitoring service called Oh Dear! We plan on regularly writing cool stuff on the technical and commericial challenges we face. Here's the first post on how we scale our queues.
Laravel offers a convenient way to create asynchronous background tasks using its queues. We utilize those heavily at Oh Dear! for all our monitoring jobs and in this post we'll share some of our lessons learned and what we consider to be best practices.
Read more [ohdear.app]
In a post on IndieHackers my buddy Mattias Geniar shares the backstory behind our SaaS called Oh Dear!. He touches upon how we started out, how we use the cool stuff in the Laravel ecosystem, how we try to grow the service, what are future goals are and much more!
We both got fed up with existing tools that didn't fit our needs precisely. Most came close, but there was always something — whether settings or design choices — that we just didn't like. Being engineers, the obvious next step was to just build it ourselves! Oh Dear! launched in private beta earlier this year and has been running in production for a few months now. It's already generating over $1,500 per month.
Read more [www.indiehackers.com]
Scott Helme, creator of securityheaders.io, wrote a good introduction to certificate transparency.
Certificate Transparency is an open framework for monitoring and auditing the certificates issued by Certificate Authorities in near real-time. By requiring a CA to log all certificates they generate, site owners can quickly identify mis-issued certificates and it becomes much easier to detect a rogue CA.
https://scotthelme.co.uk/certificate-transparency-an-introduction/
Oh Dear!, my side project leverages certificate transparency logs to send you a notification as soon as a new certificate is issued for your domain.
Together with Mattias I've been working on Oh Dear! for the last couple months. We launched it last week. If you want to try it out, just register and you'll get a trial period of 10 days. No credit card is needed.
I plan on writing a few technical posts on the whole project in the next couple of months. Right now you can already read this excellent article written by Paul Redmond about what Oh Dear! can do for you.
What differentiates Oh Dear from other uptime monitoring solutions, in my opinion, is the mixed content detection and SSL certificate monitoring. The web is moving to HTTPS, and your site’s availability can be affected by modern browsers when things go awry with your certificate.
https://laravel-news.com/oh-dear-app