March 2021 Summaries

A bug in a Playwright script caused an error log to overflow, resulting in data loss for one customer's account. The issue was triggered by "out of control" error generation, which normally does not cause problems. Effective monitoring and alerting mechanisms were lacking, requiring customer input to identify the issue. A quick fix was implemented to truncate the responsible payload, and additional logging and alerting measures have been added to prevent similar issues in the future.

Our product & dev team has been working on numerous updates over the last two months, launching several new features and enhancements to improve our platform's functionality. The Reporting feature allows users to view longer-term trends and export data as CSV. Customers can now run checks against staging or test environments using CI/CD and Deployments, with plans to further develop this feature in the coming months. We have also added support for the Osaka region, making it available on all plans. Additionally, we've made various enhancements, including adding environment URL parameters to command line triggers, providing access to Node.js default process.env.VARIABLE notation, and introducing a default user-agent header. Bug fixes include performance improvements to the home dashboard, updated tag selectors, and corrections to issues with variable resolution and UI bugs in the groups editor.