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Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

v3.8 - 2024-12-09

Improvements

  • Rewrite the docker/fetchstatus.py script to reduce Docker container CPU use (#1071)
  • Update Dockerfile to use Python 3.13
  • Update CustomHeaderMiddleware to normalize email addresses to lower case (#1074)
  • Add data migration to convert existing user account emails to lower case
  • Update email alerts to mention failure reason (#1069)
  • De-emphasize the unsubscribe link in email notifications
  • In the checks list, move the "Add Check" button to the top of the page
  • Implement filtering by status in the checks list page
  • Increase ntfy.sh topic max length to 64
  • Implement support for path in SITE_ROOT, e.g. SITE_ROOT=http://example.org/hc (#1091)

Bug Fixes

  • Improve recipient address validation in the smtp listener (#1077)

v3.7 - 2024-10-21

Improvements

  • Increase outgoing webhook timeout from 10 to 30 seconds
  • Remove pruneflips management command (now cleaned up automatically)
  • Remove prunenotifications management command (now cleaned up automatically)
  • Update settings.py to read SECURE_PROXY_SSL_HEADER from env vars
  • Remove LINE Notify onboarding form (as LINE Notify is shutting down on Apr 1, 2025)
  • Make slider labels clickable in the "Update Period & Grace" dialog (#1039)
  • Update the Signal integration to retry on network errors

Bug Fixes

  • Update sqlite settings to avoid "Database is locked" errors (#1057)
  • Fix API to gracefully handle too long slugs

v3.6 - 2024-09-04

Security

  • Upgrade to Django 5.1.1 (it fixes a vulnerability in urlize which we do use)

Improvements

  • Implement concurrent sending and --num-workers argument in manage.py sendalerts
  • Upgrade from psycopg2 to psycopg 3.x

v3.5.2 - 2024-08-21

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the Docker healthcheck script to supply correct Host header (#1051)

v3.5.1 - 2024-08-20

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the Dockerfile for building arm/v7 docker image

v3.5 - 2024-08-20

Important: this Healthchecks release is using Django 5.1, which has dropped support for PostgreSQL 12. Therefore, the PostgreSQL image in the sample docker-compose.yml file has been updated from postgres:12 to postgres:16. PostgreSQL does not automatically upgrade its data files between major version upgrades, you will need to do this manually. Instructions: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/tree/master/docker#upgrading-database

Improvements

  • Improve performance of loading ping body previews (#1023)
  • Implement MS Teams Workflows integration (#1024)
  • Add "uuid" field in API responses when read/write key is used (#1007)
  • Update timezone dropdowns to show frequently used timezones at the top
  • Update the "Set Password" page to reject very weak passwords
  • Implement search by slug in the checks list (#1048)
  • Add support for $SLUG placeholder in webhook payloads (#1049)
  • Update Dockerfile to use HEALTHCHECK instruction and report container health (#1045)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Check.ping() to lock the check before updating (#1023)
  • Fix AJAX views to better handle user logging out

v3.4 - 2024-06-20

Improvements

  • Show status changes (flips) in check's log page (#447)
  • Implement dynamic favicon in the projects overview page (#971)
  • Add support for system theme (#978, @moraj-turing)
  • Improve Opsgenie notifications (include description, schedule, link etc.)
  • Update the Discord integration to disable channel on HTTP 404 responses
  • Update email notifications to include the timestamps of status flips
  • Update the Sign In page to hide "Email Link" option if SMTP is not configured (#922)
  • Update Slack integration to use channel name as the integration name (#1003)
  • Update Ping Details dialog to also show formatted datetimes (#975)
  • Add data migration to update legacy timezones to current canonical timezones

Bug Fixes

  • Fix hc.front.views.docs_search to handle words "AND", "OR", "NOT" as queries
  • Fix integrations to not disclose check's code in incident data
  • Fix integrations to include oncalendar schedules in notifications
  • Fix a bug in the log page that caused log events to sometimes load twice

v3.3 - 2024-04-03

Improvements

  • Add support for $NAME_JSON and $BODY_JSON placeholders in webhook payloads
  • Update the WhatsApp integration to use Twilio Content Templates
  • Add auto-refresh functionality to the Log page (#957, @mickBoat00)
  • Redesign the "Status Badges" page
  • Add support for per-check status badges (#853)
  • Add "Last ping subject" field in email notifications
  • Change the signup flow to accept registered users (and sign them in instead)
  • Implement event type filtering in the Log page (#873)
  • Implement dynamic favicon in the "Checks" and "Details" pages (#971, @princekhunt)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Gotify integration to handle Gotify server URLs with paths (#964)
  • Update notification templates to handle cases where check's last ping value is null
  • Make statsd metrics collection optional (to enable, set STATSD_HOST env var)

v3.2 - 2024-02-09

Improvements

  • Update Opsgenie instructions
  • Update Spike.sh instructions
  • Add system check to validate settings.SITE_ROOT (#895)
  • Add tooltips to tag buttons in the checks list screen (#911)
  • Improve Email - Keywoard Filtering docs (@mmomjian)
  • Split the grace time input field into value/unit input group (#945, @mickBoat00)
  • Add a system check to warn about MariaDB UUID migration (#929)

Bug Fixes

  • Increase uWSGI buffer size to allow requests with large cookies (#925)
  • Fix crash when processing one-shot OnCalendar schedules
  • Fix the handling of ping bodies > 2.5MB (#931)
  • Fix crash when inviting team member but SMTP is not configured (@marlenekoh)

v3.1 - 2023-12-13

Improvements

  • Update logging configuration to write logs to database (to table logs_record)
  • Improve Pushover notifications (include tags, period, last ping type etc.)
  • Implement audo-submit in TOTP entry screen (#905)
  • Update the Splunk On-Call integration to disable channel on HTTP 404 responses
  • Update the Slack integration to disable channel when Slack returns 400 "invalid_token"
  • Update the Pushover integration to disable channel when Pushover reports invalid user
  • Update Twilio integrations to disable channel on "Invalid 'To' Phone Number"
  • Update the Signal integration to disable channel on UNREGISTERED_FAILURE
  • Upgrade to Django 5.0
  • Add support for systemd's OnCalendar schedules (#919)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix "Ping Details" dialog to handle email bodies not yet uploaded to object storage
  • Fix webauthn registration failure on Firefox with Bitwarden extension
  • Fix webauthn registration failure on Firefox < 119 with Ed25519 keys

v3.0.1 - 2023-10-30

Bug Fixes

  • Fix sending test notification to a group integration
  • Fix the Login form to not perform form validation in GET requests
  • Fix special character escaping in ntfy notifications
  • Fix "Edit ntfy integration" page to fill the existing token in the form
  • Fix "Delete Check" and "Update Check" API calls to handle concurrent deletes
  • Fix Signal transport to handle JSON-RPC messages with no ids
  • Fix DST handling in Check.get_grace_start()

v3.0 - 2023-10-16

This release drops support of Python 3.9 and below. The minimum required Python version is 3.10.

Improvements

  • Add Channel.last_notify_duration field, use it in "sendalerts" for prioritization
  • Update Telegram integration to treat "bot was blocked by the user" as permanent error
  • Add "Time Zone" field in notifications that use the "Schedule" field (#863)
  • Add bold and monospace text formatting in Signal notifications
  • Update hourly/daily email reminders to only show checks in the "down" state (#881)
  • Add support for ntfy access tokens (#879)
  • Improve ntfy notifications (include tags, period, last ping type etc.)
  • Add an "Account closed." confirmation message after closing an account
  • Add monthly uptime percentage display in Check Details page (#773)
  • Increase the precision of calculated downtime duration in check's details and reports
  • Increase bottom margin for modal windows to work around Mobile Safari issue (#899)
  • New integration: notification group (#894)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix "senddeletionnotices" to recognize "Supporter" subscriptions
  • Fix "createsuperuser" to reject already registered email addresses (#880)
  • Fix hc.accounts.views.check_token to handle non-UUID usernames (#882)
  • Fix time interval formatting in Check Details page, downtime summary table
  • Fix HTML escaping issue in Project admin

v2.10 - 2023-07-02

Improvements

  • Configure logging to log unhandled exceptions to console even when DEBUG=False (#835)
  • Make hc.lib.emails raise exceptions when EMAIL_ settings are not set
  • Decouple check's name from slug, allow users to set hand-picked slugs
  • Add /api/v3/ (adds ability to specify slug when creating or updating checks)
  • Update Dockerfile to use Debian Bookworm as the base
  • Implement optional check auto-provisioning when pinging by slug (#626)
  • Add support for the $EXITSTATUS placeholder in webhook payloads (#826)
  • Add API support for filtering checks by slug (#844)
  • Add support for Telegram topics (#852)
  • For cron checks, switch to using check's (not browser's) timezone to format dates
  • Upgrade to cronsim 2.5 (adds support for "LW" in the day-of-month field)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix DB connection timeouts in manage.py smtpd (#847)

v2.9.2 - 2023-06-05

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a crash in manage.py smtpd when stdin is not attached (#840)

v2.9.1 - 2023-06-05

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the GHA workflow for building arm/v7 docker image

v2.9 - 2023-06-05

Improvements

  • Switch from CssAbsoluteFilter to CssRelativeFilter (#822)
  • Add statsd metric collection in hc.lib.s3.get_object()
  • Upgrade to cronsim 2.4
  • Update Signal notification template to include more data
  • Add Profile.deletion_scheduled_deleted field, and UI banner when it's set
  • Add support for specifying MessagingServiceSid when sending SMS and WA messages
  • Update the smtpd management command to use the aiosmtpd library
  • Add Rocket.Chat integration (#463)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a race condition when pinging and deleting checks at the same time
  • Fix the checks list to preserve filters when changing sort order (#828)

v2.8.1 - 2023-04-11

Bug Fixes

  • Fix django-compressor warning with github_actions.html

v2.8 - 2023-04-11

Improvements

  • Add GitHub Actions examples
  • Update the Dockerfile to use Python 3.11
  • Update the Ping Details dialog to show the "HTML" tab by default (#801)
  • Add a "Switch Project" menu in top navigation
  • Update Trello onboarding form to allow longer Trello auth tokens (#806)
  • Remove L10N markup from base.html, and associated translations
  • Add Arduino usage example
  • Upgrade to Django 4.2
  • Add email fallback for Signal notifications that hit rate limit
  • Make warnings about no backup second factor more assertive
  • Add cron expression tester and sample expressions in the cron cheatsheet page

Bug Fixes

  • Fix notification query in the Log page

v2.7 - 2023-03-06

Improvements

  • Add last ping body in Mattermost notifications (#785)
  • Improve the error message about rejected private IPs
  • Update Docker image's uwsgi.ini to use SMTPD_PORT env var (#791)
  • Update Telegram notification template to include more data
  • Add CSRF protection in the signup view

Bug Fixes

  • Fix URL validation to allow hostnames with no TLD ("http://example") (#782)
  • Add handling for ProtocolError exceptions in hc.lib.s3.get_object
  • Fix a race condition in Check.ping method
  • Fix the SameSite and Secure attributes on the "auto-login" cookie
  • Fix the "Test" button in the Integrations screen for read-only users
  • Add form double submit protection when registering a WebAuthn key

v2.6.1 - 2023-01-26

Improvements

  • Improve Prometheus docs, add section "Available Metrics"

Bug Fixes

  • Fix a crash in the "createsuperuser" management command (#779)

v2.6 - 2023-01-23

Improvements

  • Improve layout in "My Checks" for checks with long ping URLs (#745)
  • Add support for communicating with signal-cli over TCP (#732)
  • Add /api/v2/ (changes the status reporting of checks in started state) (#633)
  • Update settings.py to read the ADMINS setting from an environment variable
  • Add "Start Keyword" filtering for inbound emails (#716)
  • Add rate limiting by client IP in the signup and login views

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the Signal integration to handle unexpected RPC messages better (#763)
  • Fix special character encoding in Signal notifications (#767)
  • Fix project sort order to be case-insensitive everywhere in the UI (#768)
  • Fix special character encoding in project invite emails
  • Fix check transfer between same account's projects when at check limit
  • Fix wording in the invite email when inviting read-only users
  • Fix login and signup views to make email enumeration harder

v2.5 - 2022-12-14

Improvements

  • Upgrade to fido2 1.1.0 and simplify hc.lib.webauthn
  • Add handling for ipv4address:port values in the X-Forwarded-For header (#714)
  • Add a form for submitting Signal CAPTCHA solutions
  • Add Duration field in the Ping Details dialog (#720)
  • Update Mattermost setup instructions
  • Add support for specifying a run ID via a "rid" query parameter (#722)
  • Add last ping body in Slack notifications (#735)
  • Add ntfy integration (#728)
  • Add ".txt" suffix to the filename when downloading ping body (#738)
  • Add API support for fetching ping bodies (#737)
  • Change "Settings - Email Reports" page to allow manual timezone selection

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the most recent ping lookup in the "Ping Details" dialog
  • Fix binary data handling in the hc.front.views.ping_body view
  • Fix downtime summaries in weekly reports (#736)
  • Fix week, month boundary calculation to use user's timezone

v2.4.1 - 2022-10-18

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the GHA workflow for building arm/v7 docker image

v2.4 - 2022-10-18

Improvements

  • Add support for EMAIL_USE_SSL environment variable (#685)
  • Switch from requests to pycurl
  • Implement documentation search
  • Add date filters in the Log page
  • Upgrade to cronsim 2.3
  • Add support for the $BODY placeholder in webhook payloads (#708)
  • Implement the "Clear Events" function
  • Add support for custom topics in Zulip notifications (#583)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the handling of TooManyRedirects exceptions
  • Fix MySQL 8 support in the Docker image (upgrade from buster to bullseye) (#717)

v2.3 - 2022-08-05

Improvements

  • Update Dockerfile to start SMTP listener (#668)
  • Implement the "Add Check" dialog
  • Include last ping type in Slack, Mattermost, Discord notifications
  • Upgrade to cron-descriptor 1.2.30
  • Add "Filter by keywords in the message body" feature (#653)
  • Upgrade to HiDPI screenshots in the documentation
  • Add support for the $JSON placeholder in webhook payloads
  • Add ping endpoints for "log" events
  • Add the "Badges" page in docs
  • Add support for multiple recipients in incoming email (#669)
  • Upgrade to fido2 1.0.0, requests 2.28.1, segno 1.5.2
  • Implement auto-refresh and running indicator in the My Projects page (#681)
  • Upgrade to Django 4.1 and django-compressor 4.1
  • Add API support for resuming paused checks (#687)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the display of ignored pings with non-zero exit status
  • Fix a race condition in the "Change Email" flow
  • Fix grouping and sorting in the text version of the report/nag emails (#679)
  • Fix the update_timeout and pause views to create flips (for downtime bookkeeping)
  • Fix the checks list to preserve selected filters when adding/updating checks (#684)
  • Fix duration calculation to skip "log" and "ign" events

v2.2.1 - 2022-06-13

Improvements

  • Improve the text version of the alert email template

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the version number displayed in the footer

v2.2 - 2022-06-13

Improvements

  • Add address verification step in the "Change Email" flow
  • Reduce logging output from sendalerts and sendreports management commands (#656)
  • Add Ctrl+C handler in sendalerts and sendreports management commands
  • Add notes in docs about configuring uWSGI via UWSGI_ env vars (#656)
  • Implement login link expiration (login links will now expire in 1 hour)
  • Add Gotify integration (#270)
  • Add API support for reading/writing the subject and subject_fail fields (#659)
  • Add "Disabled" priority for Pushover notifications (#663)

Bug Fixes

  • Update hc.front.views.channels to handle empty strings in settings (#635)
  • Add logic to handle ContentDecodingError exceptions

v2.1 - 2022-05-10

Improvements

  • Add logic to alert ADMINS when Signal transport hits a CAPTCHA challenge
  • Implement the "started" progress spinner in the details pages
  • Add "hc_check_started" metric in the Prometheus metrics endpoint (#630)
  • Add a management command for submitting Signal rate limit challenges
  • Upgrade to django-compressor 4.0
  • Update the C# snippet
  • Increase max displayed duration from 24h to 72h (#644)
  • Add "Ping-Body-Limit" response header in ping API responses

Bug Fixes

  • Fix unwanted localization in badge SVG generation (#629)
  • Update email template to handle not yet uploaded ping bodies
  • Add small delay in transports.Email.notify to allow ping body to upload
  • Fix prunenotifications to handle checks with missing pings (#636)
  • Fix "Send Test Notification" for integrations that only send "up" notifications

v2.0.1 - 2022-03-18

Bug Fixes

  • Fix the GHA workflow for building arm/v7 docker image

v2.0 - 2022-03-18

This release contains a backwards-incompatible change to the Signal integration (hence the major version number bump). Healthchecks uses signal-cli to deliver Signal notifications. In the past versions, Healthchecks interfaced with signal-cli over DBus. Starting from this version, Healthchecks interfaces with signal-cli using JSON RPC. Please see README for details on how to set this up.

Improvements

  • Update Telegram integration to treat "group chat was deleted" as permanent error
  • Update email bounce handler to mark email channels as disabled (#446)
  • Update Signal integration to use JSON RPC over UNIX socket
  • Update the "Add TOTP" form to display plaintext TOTP secret (#602)
  • Improve PagerDuty notifications
  • Add Ping.body_raw field for storing body as bytes
  • Add support for storing ping bodies in S3-compatible object storage (#609)
  • Add a "Download Original" link in the "Ping Details" dialog

Bug Fixes

  • Fix unwanted special character escaping in notification messages (#606)
  • Fix JS error after copying a code snippet
  • Make email non-editable in the "Invite Member" dialog when team limit reached
  • Fix Telegram bot to handle TransportError exceptions
  • Fix Signal integration to handle UNREGISTERED_FAILURE errors
  • Fix unwanted localization of period and grace values in data- attributes (#617)
  • Fix Mattermost integration to treat 404 as a transient error (#613)

v1.25.0 - 2022-01-07

Improvements

  • Implement Pushover emergency alert cancellation when check goes up
  • Add "The following checks are also down" section in Telegram notifications
  • Add "The following checks are also down" section in Signal notifications
  • Upgrade to django-compressor 3.0
  • Add support for Telegram channels (#592)
  • Implement Telegram group to supergroup migration (#132)
  • Update the Slack integration to not retry when Slack returns 404
  • Refactor transport classes to raise exceptions on delivery problems
  • Add Channel.disabled field, for disabling integrations on permanent errors
  • Upgrade to Django 4
  • Bump the min. Python version from 3.6 to 3.8 (as required by Django 4)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix report templates to not show the "started" status (show UP or DOWN instead)
  • Update Dockerfile to avoid running "pip wheel" more than once (#594)

v1.24.1 - 2021-11-10

Bug Fixes

  • Fix Dockerfile for arm/v7 - install all dependencies from piwheels

v1.24.0 - 2021-11-10

Improvements

  • Switch from croniter to cronsim
  • Change outgoing webhook timeout to 10s, but cap the total time to 20s
  • Implement automatic api_ping and api_notification pruning (#556)
  • Update Dockerfile to install apprise (#581)
  • Improve period and grace controls, allow up to 365 day periods (#281)
  • Add SIGTERM handling in sendalerts and sendreports
  • Remove the "welcome" landing page, direct users to the sign in form instead

Bug Fixes

  • Fix hc.api.views.ping to handle non-utf8 data in request body (#574)
  • Fix a crash when hc.api.views.pause receives a single integer in request body

v1.23.1 - 2021-10-13

Bug Fixes

  • Fix missing uwsgi dependencies in arm/v7 Docker image

v1.23.0 - 2021-10-13

Improvements

  • Add /api/v1/badges/ endpoint (#552)
  • Add ability to edit existing email, Signal, SMS, WhatsApp integrations
  • Add new ping URL format: /{ping_key}/{slug} (#491)
  • Reduce Docker image size by using slim base image and multi-stage Dockerfile
  • Upgrade to Bootstrap 3.4.1
  • Upgrade to jQuery 3.6.0

Bug Fixes

  • Add handling for non-latin-1 characters in webhook headers
  • Fix dark mode bug in selectpicker widgets
  • Fix a crash during login when user's profile does not exist (#77)
  • Drop API support for GET, DELETE requests with a request body
  • Add missing @csrf_exempt annotations in API views
  • Fix the ping handler to reject status codes > 255
  • Add 'schemaVersion' field in the shields.io endpoint (#566)

v1.22.0 - 2021-08-06

Improvements

  • Use multicolor channel icons for better appearance in the dark mode
  • Add SITE_LOGO_URL setting (#323)
  • Add admin action to log in as any user
  • Add a "Manager" role (#484)
  • Add support for 2FA using TOTP (#354)
  • Add Whitenoise (#548)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix dark mode styling issues in Cron Syntax Cheatsheet
  • Fix a 403 when transferring a project to a read-only team member
  • Security: fix allow_redirect function to reject absolute URLs

v1.21.0 - 2021-07-02

Improvements

  • Increase "Success / Failure Keywords" field lengths to 200
  • Django 3.2.4
  • Improve the handling of unknown email addresses in the Sign In form
  • Add support for "... is UP" SMS notifications
  • Add an option for weekly reports (in addition to monthly)
  • Implement PagerDuty Simple Install Flow, remove PD Connect
  • Implement dark mode

Bug Fixes

  • Fix off-by-one-month error in monthly reports, downtime columns (#539)

v1.20.0 - 2021-04-22

Improvements

  • Django 3.2
  • Rename VictorOps -> Splunk On-Call
  • Implement email body decoding in the "Ping Details" dialog
  • Add a "Subject" field in the "Ping Details" dialog
  • Improve HTML email display in the "Ping Details" dialog
  • Add a link to check's details page in Slack notifications
  • Replace details_url with cloaked_url in email and chat notifications
  • In the "My Projects" page, show projects with failing checks first

Bug Fixes

  • Fix downtime summary to handle months when the check didn't exist yet (#472)
  • Relax cron expression validation: accept all expressions that croniter accepts
  • Fix sendalerts to clear Profile.next_nag_date if all checks up
  • Fix the pause action to clear Profile.next_nag_date if all checks up
  • Fix the "Email Reports" screen to clear Profile.next_nag_date if all checks up
  • Fix the month boundary calculation in monthly reports (#497)

v1.19.0 - 2021-02-03

Improvements

  • Add tighter parameter checks in hc.front.views.serve_doc
  • Update OpsGenie instructions (#450)
  • Update the email notification template to include more check and last ping details
  • Improve the crontab snippet in the "Check Details" page (#465)
  • Add Signal integration (#428)
  • Change Zulip onboarding, ask for the zuliprc file (#202)
  • Add a section in Docs about running self-hosted instances
  • Add experimental Dockerfile and docker-compose.yml
  • Add rate limiting for Pushover notifications (6 notifications / user / minute)
  • Add support for disabling specific integration types (#471)

Bug Fixes

  • Fix unwanted HTML escaping in SMS and WhatsApp notifications
  • Fix a crash when adding an integration for an empty Trello account
  • Change icon CSS class prefix to 'ic-' to work around Fanboy's filter list

v1.18.0 - 2020-12-09

Improvements

  • Add a tooltip to the 'confirmation link' label (#436)
  • Update API to allow specifying channels by names (#440)
  • When saving a phone number, remove any invisible unicode characters
  • Update the read-only dashboard's CSS for better mobile support (#442)
  • Reduce the number of SQL queries used in the "Get Checks" API call
  • Add support for script's exit status in ping URLs (#429)
  • Improve phone number sanitization: remove spaces and hyphens
  • Change the "Test Integration" behavior for webhooks: don't retry failed requests
  • Add retries to the the email sending logic
  • Require confirmation codes (sent to email) before sensitive actions
  • Implement WebAuthn two-factor authentication
  • Implement badge mode (up/down vs up/late/down) selector (#282)
  • Add Ping.exitstatus field, store client's reported exit status values (#455)
  • Implement header-based authentication (#457)
  • Add a "Lost password?" link with instructions in the Sign In page

Bug Fixes

  • Fix db field overflow when copying a check with a long name

v1.17.0 - 2020-10-14

Improvements

  • Django 3.1
  • Handle status callbacks from Twilio, show delivery failures in Integrations
  • Removing unused /api/v1/notifications/{uuid}/bounce endpoint
  • Less verbose output in the senddeletionnotices command
  • Host a read-only dashboard (from github.com/healthchecks/dashboard/)
  • LINE Notify integration (#412)
  • Read-only team members
  • API support for setting the allowed HTTP methods for making ping requests

Bug Fixes

  • Handle excessively long email addresses in the signup form
  • Handle excessively long email addresses in the team member invite form
  • Don't allow duplicate team memberships
  • When copying a check, copy all fields from the "Filtering Rules" dialog (#417)
  • Fix missing Resume button (#421)
  • When decoding inbound emails, decode encoded headers (#420)
  • Escape markdown in MS Teams notifications (#426)
  • Set the "title" and "summary" fields in MS Teams notifications (#435)

v1.16.0 - 2020-08-04

Improvements

  • Paused ping handling can be controlled via API (#376)
  • Add "Get a list of checks's logged pings" API call (#371)
  • The /api/v1/checks/ endpoint now accepts either UUID or unique_key (#370)
  • Added /api/v1/checks/uuid/flips/ endpoint (#349)
  • In the cron expression dialog, show a human-friendly version of the expression
  • Indicate a started check with a progress spinner under status icon (#338)
  • Added "Docs > Reliability Tips" page
  • Spike.sh integration (#402)
  • Updated Discord integration to use discord.com instead of discordapp.com
  • Add "Failure Keyword" filtering for inbound emails (#396)
  • Add support for multiple, comma-separated keywords (#396)
  • New integration: phone calls (#403)

Bug Fixes

  • Removing Pager Team integration, project appears to be discontinued
  • Sending a test notification updates Channel.last_error (#391)
  • Handle HTTP 429 responses from Matrix server when joining a Matrix room

v1.15.0 - 2020-06-04

Improvements

  • Rate limiting for Telegram notifications (10 notifications per chat per minute)
  • Use Slack V2 OAuth flow
  • Users can edit their existing webhook integrations (#176)
  • Add a "Transfer Ownership" feature in Project Settings
  • In checks list, the pause button asks for confirmation (#356)
  • Added /api/v1/metrics/ endpoint, useful for monitoring the service itself
  • Added "When paused, ignore pings" option in the Filtering Rules dialog (#369)

Bug Fixes

  • "Get a single check" API call now supports read-only API keys (#346)
  • Don't escape HTML in the subject line of notification emails
  • Don't let users clone checks if the account is at check limit

v1.14.0 - 2020-03-23

Improvements

  • Improved UI to invite users from account's other projects (#258)
  • Experimental Prometheus metrics endpoint (#300)
  • Don't store user's current project in DB, put it explicitly in page URLs (#336)
  • API reference in Markdown
  • Use Selectize.js for entering tags (#324)
  • Zulip integration (#202)
  • OpsGenie integration returns more detailed error messages
  • Telegram integration returns more detailed error messages
  • Added the "Get a single check" API call (#337)
  • Display project name in Slack notifications (#342)

Bug Fixes

  • The "render_docs" command checks if markdown and pygments is installed (#329)
  • The team size limit is applied to the n. of distinct users across all projects (#332)
  • API: don't let SuspiciousOperation bubble up when validating channel ids
  • API security: check channel ownership when setting check's channels
  • API: update check's "alert_after" field when changing schedule
  • API: validate channel identifiers before creating/updating a check (#335)
  • Fix redirect after login when adding Telegram integration

v1.13.0 - 2020-02-13

Improvements

  • Show a red "!" in project's top navigation if any integration is not working
  • createsuperuser management command requires an unique email address (#318)
  • For superusers, show "Site Administration" in top navigation, note in README (#317)
  • Make Ping.body size limit configurable (#301)
  • Show sub-second durations with higher precision, 2 digits after decimal point (#321)
  • Replace the gear icon with three horizontal dots icon (#322)
  • Add a Pause button in the checks list (#312)
  • Documentation in Markdown
  • Added an example of capturing and submitting log output (#315)
  • The sendalerts commands measures dwell time and reports it over statsd protocol
  • Django 3.0.3
  • Show a warning in top navigation if the project has no integrations (#327)

Bug Fixes

  • Increase the allowable length of Matrix room alias to 100 (#320)
  • Make sure Check.last_ping and Ping.created timestamps match exactly
  • Don't trigger "down" notifications when changing schedule interactively in web UI
  • Fix sendalerts crash loop when encountering a bad cron schedule
  • Stricter cron validation, reject schedules like "At midnight of February 31"
  • In hc.front.views.ping_details, if a ping does not exist, return a friendly message

v1.12.0 - 2020-01-02

Improvements

  • Django 3.0
  • "Filtering Rules" dialog, an option to require HTTP POST (#297)
  • Show Healthchecks version in Django admin header (#306)
  • Added JSON endpoint for Shields.io (#304)
  • senddeletionnotices command skips profiles with recent last_active_date
  • The "Update Check" API call can update check's description (#311)

Bug Fixes

  • Don't set CSRF cookie on first visit. Signup is exempt from CSRF protection
  • Fix List-Unsubscribe email header value: add angle brackets
  • Unsubscribe links serve a form, and require HTTP POST to actually unsubscribe
  • For webhook integration, validate each header line separately
  • Fix "Send Test Notification" for webhooks that only fire on checks going up
  • Don't allow adding webhook integrations with both URLs blank
  • Don't allow adding email integrations with both "up" and "down" unchecked

v1.11.0 - 2019-11-22

Improvements

  • In monthly reports, no downtime stats for the current month (month has just started)
  • Add Microsoft Teams integration (#135)
  • Add Profile.last_active_date field for more accurate inactive user detection
  • Add "Shell Commands" integration (#302)
  • PagerDuty integration works with or without PD_VENDOR_KEY (#303)

Bug Fixes

  • On mobile, "My Checks" page, always show the gear (Details) button (#286)
  • Make log events fit better on mobile screens

v1.10.0 - 2019-10-21

Improvements

  • Add the "Last Duration" field in the "My Checks" page (#257)
  • Add "last_duration" attribute to the Check API resource (#257)
  • Upgrade to psycopg2 2.8.3
  • Add Go usage example
  • Send monthly reports on 1st of every month, not randomly during the month
  • Signup form sets the "auto-login" cookie to avoid an extra click during first login
  • Autofocus the email field in the signup form, and submit on enter key
  • Add support for OpsGenie EU region (#294)
  • Update OpsGenie logo and setup illustrations
  • Add a "Create a Copy" function for cloning checks (#288)
  • Send email notification when monthly SMS sending limit is reached (#292)

Bug Fixes

  • Prevent double-clicking the submit button in signup form
  • Upgrade to Django 2.2.6 – fixes sqlite migrations (#284)

v1.9.0 - 2019-09-03

Improvements

  • Show the number of downtimes and total downtime minutes in monthly reports (#104)
  • Show the number of downtimes and total downtime minutes in "Check Details" page
  • Add the pruneflips management command
  • Add Mattermost integration (#276)
  • Three choices in timezone switcher (UTC / check's timezone / browser's timezone) (#278)
  • After adding a new check redirect to the "Check Details" page

Bug Fixes

  • Fix javascript code to construct correct URLs when running from a subdirectory (#273)
  • Don't show the "Sign Up" link in the login page if registration is closed (#280)

v1.8.0 - 2019-07-08

Improvements

  • Add the prunetokenbucket management command
  • Show check counts in JSON "badges" (#251)
  • Webhooks support HTTP PUT (#249)
  • Webhooks can use different req. bodies and headers for "up" and "down" events (#249)
  • Show check's code instead of full URL on 992px - 1200px wide screens (#253)
  • Add WhatsApp integration (uses Twilio same as the SMS integration)
  • Webhooks support the $TAGS placeholder
  • Don't include ping URLs in API responses when the read-only key is used

Bug Fixes

  • Fix badges for tags containing special characters (#240, #237)
  • Fix the "Integrations" page for when the user has no active project
  • Prevent email clients from opening the one-time login links (#255)
  • Fix prunepings and prunepingsslow, they got broken when adding Projects (#264)

v1.7.0 - 2019-05-02

Improvements

  • Add the EMAIL_USE_VERIFICATION configuration setting (#232)
  • Show "Badges" and "Settings" in top navigation (#234)
  • Upgrade to Django 2.2
  • Can configure the email integration to only report the "down" events (#231)
  • Add "Test!" function in the Integrations page (#207)
  • Rate limiting for the log in attempts
  • Password strength meter and length check in the "Set Password" form
  • Show the Description section even if the description is missing. (#246)
  • Include the description in email alerts. (#247)

v1.6.0 - 2019-04-01

Improvements

  • Add the "desc" field (check's description) to API responses
  • Add maxlength attribute to HTML input=text elements
  • Improved logic for displaying job execution times in log (#219)
  • Add Matrix integration
  • Add Pager Team integration
  • Add a management command for sending inactive account notifications

Bug Fixes

  • Fix refreshing of the checks page filtered by tags (#221)
  • Escape asterisks in Slack messages (#223)
  • Fix a "invalid time format" in front.views.status_single on Windows hosts

v1.5.0 - 2019-02-04

Improvements

  • Database schema: add uniqueness constraint to Check.code
  • Database schema: add Ping.kind field. Remove "start" and "fail" fields
  • Add "Email Settings..." dialog and "Subject Must Contain" setting
  • Database schema: add the Project model
  • Move project-specific settings to a new "Project Settings" page
  • Add a "Transfer to Another Project..." dialog
  • Add the "My Projects" page

v1.4.0 - 2018-12-25

Improvements

  • Set Pushover alert priorities for "down" and "up" events separately
  • Additional python usage examples
  • Allow simultaneous access to checks from different teams
  • Add CORS support to API endpoints
  • Flip model, for tracking status changes of the Check objects
  • Add /ping/<code>/start API endpoint
  • When using the /start endpoint, show elapsed times in ping log

Bug Fixes

  • Fix after-login redirects (the "?next=" query parameter)
  • Update Check.status field when user edits timeout & grace settings
  • Use timezone-aware datetimes with croniter, avoid ambiguities around DST
  • Validate and reject cron schedules with six components

v1.3.0 - 2018-11-21

Improvements

  • Load settings from environment variables
  • Add "List-Unsubscribe" header to alert and report emails
  • Don't send monthly reports to inactive accounts (no pings in 6 months)
  • Add search box in the "My Checks" page
  • Add read-only API key support
  • Remove Profile.bill_to field (obsolete)
  • Show a warning when running with DEBUG=True
  • Add "channels" attribute to the Check API resource
  • Can specify channel codes when updating a check via API
  • Add a workaround for email agents automatically opening "Unsubscribe" links
  • Add Channel.name field, users can now name integrations
  • Add "Get a List of Existing Integrations" API call

Bug Fixes

  • During DST transition, handle ambiguous dates as pre-transition

v1.2.0 - 2018-10-20

Improvements

  • Content updates in the "Welcome" page.
  • Added "Docs > Third-Party Resources" page.
  • Improved layout and styling in "Login" page.
  • Separate "Sign Up" and "Log In" forms.
  • "My Checks" page: support filtering checks by query string parameters.
  • Added Trello integration

Bug Fixes

  • Timezones were missing in the "Change Schedule" dialog, fixed.
  • Fix hamburger menu button in "Login" page.

v1.1.0 - 2018-08-20

Improvements

  • A new "Check Details" page.
  • Updated django-compressor, psycopg2, pytz, requests package versions.
  • C# usage example.
  • Checks have a "Description" field.