On January 19, 2017, a public posting to the mozilla.dev.security.policy newsgroup drew attention to a series of questionable website authentication certificates issued by Symantec Corporation’s PKI. Symantec’s PKI business, which operates a series of Certificate Authorities under various brand names, including Thawte, VeriSign, Equifax, GeoTrust, and RapidSSL, had issued numerous certificates that […]
SSL Monitoring – Common Issues
The following article contains an overview of common errors that are seen with SSL monitoring, as well as information on how to resolve them. If you see an issue with your certificate, but can’t find it in this list, please do get in touch with our support and we’ll assist […]
Mixed Content Monitoring
Mixed Content monitoring was added to our advanced SSL monitoring tool set on 08/02/2018. This functionality allows you to receive warnings in the case that Mixed Content is identified on a website being monitored with on of our SSL type tests. Mixed content occurs when the site is accessed over a […]
Maintenance Windows
What are Maintenance Windows? Maintenance windows are pre-defined periods where one or more tests will temporarily stop running, preventing any negative impact to your uptime percentage and alerts. When to use Maintenance Windows? You can set one up when you schedule a temporary downtime when you deploy changes or expect […]
Does StatusCake use AWS or Azure as part of it’s testing infrastructure?
We do not. Our probes are hosted in around 30 different data centres globally. We try to ensure a wide spread of providers to provide accurate monitoring, and the exact data centres we use change depending on performance and geographic changes. We do not use Amazon’s AWS or Microsoft Azure […]
What are your API rate limits?
For our latest API version found here: Ratelimits are applied to the API to prevent any one client degrading the overall system stability. StatusCake accounts without a subscription, or those on a free plan, can make a maximum of 60 requests per minute (rpm). Accounts with a paid subscription have […]
How many SSL tests can I have?
The Number of SSL tests you can have is limited per plan – you can see how many are offered on each plan below: Superior Plan: 50 SSL Tests Business Plan: 100 SSL Tests
Adding a New SSL Test
Basic SSL Setup In order to add a new SSL certificate to be monitored by StatusCake, just follow these steps: Click on the “SSL Monitoring” dropdown on the left navigation bar, and click “New SSL Test”. Enter the URL for the endpoint you’d like to monitor. Note: This must be […]
Status Page – Adding the DigitalOcean Integration
With our new DigitalOcean integration for Status Page you can now display service status and metric data directly from the droplets within your DO account! This is very easy to set up following the Guide below: On the DigitalOcean Side: Log in to your DigitalOcean account. Go to the API […]
Status Page – Uptime Robot Integration
This integration allows you to bring both Service and Metric data on to your Status Page directly from Uptime Robot, and is configured as shown below: