What’s new

The out-of-the-box PagerDuty integration allows users to send their Uptrends alerts directly to PagerDuty. As part of this update, the message we send to PagerDuty will now include the custom message configured in the escalation levels of your alert definitions. You can find the message under Message in the Custom details of the PagerDuty alert.

Until now you had to be an administrator within the Uptrends app to be able to create, edit, and apply monitor templates because using monitor templates can have a big impact. On the other hand, you may want to give some operators the permission to use monitor templates without giving them access to other administrator rights.

The solution is the newly added permission setting for monitor templates. This is a system-wide setting tied to operator groups or operators. Check out the instructions in the knowledge base article Permissions for granting or revoking permissions. Please note that only administrators have the right to change permissions.

To enable two-factor authentication, you can scan the QR code using your preferred authenticator app. If scanning isn’t possible (for example, the preferred password manager does not support this feature), you can now switch to manual input by clicking the link below the code. A new panel will display the six-digit code and other data from the QR code, split into relevant parts.

We are introducing timeline screenshots, also known as filmstrips, for transactions. This feature will be specifically tailored for transactions with extra metrics.

The filmstrip checkbox will replace the existing screenshot checkbox. Transactions with screenshot actions will remain unchanged, and the screenshot action(s) will remain in place. The option to enable a step-action for a single screenshot will still be accessible via Control action Screenshot. Please note, filmstrips will cost one transaction credit, unless there is already one screenshot in the step, in which case the filmstrip is free.