Server releases

  • Upgrading a self-hosted box to 1.2.0

    The install guide says an upgrade is a binary swap and a restart, and that a release needing more says so on this blog. 1.2.0, coming from 1.1.0, needs more. This post is the whole …

  • A new look for public status pages, and what 1.1.0 changes on yours

    A status page now answers “is it down, and where?” before the reader scrolls. It is live on pingtower.com. A self-hosted box’s public status pages change the …

  • Status pages, incidents and browser checks.

    Pingtower started as the part that wakes a person up. The last few weeks filled in what happens around that page: checks that test a whole sign-in instead of one URL, an incident …

  • Upgrading a self-hosted box to Release 1

    The install guide says an upgrade is a binary swap and a restart, and that a release needing more says so on this blog. Release 1 needs more. This post is the whole list. 1. Take a …

  • Ask your AI assistant what's firing.

    pingtower.com now runs a Model Context Protocol server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT or any other MCP client to one of your teams, and the questions you used to answer with a handful of …

  • A live Logs tab, cleaner team changes, and fairer delivery.

    TestFlight build 38 is out, and pingtower.com is running the server it pairs with. Most of what changed is things you’ll notice; a fair share of it is things you …

  • The probe agent learns to watch from inside.

    The addons agent has one job: watch your infrastructure from a box that isn’t part of it, so an outage your app can’t log still becomes an alert. That job hasn’t …

  • Pingtower is live. The app is in review.

    Update, August 30: the app cleared review — the public TestFlight beta is open to everyone. Details in the follow-up post. As of today, Pingtower is a real service you can sign up …