--- title: "Blog" description: "Announcements and stories from the Spectate team." url: https://spectate.net/blog last_updated: 2026-11-05 --- # Spectate blog > Announcements and stories from the Spectate team. - 2026-10-25: [Introducing Spectate 2](https://spectate.net/blog/introducing-spectate-2.md): We rebuilt Spectate from scratch. Here's why, what changed, and what it means for you. - 2025-01-23: [Let's Encrypt is ending support for email notifications](https://spectate.net/blog/lets-encrypt-is-ending-support-for-email-notifications.md): Let's Encrypt recently announced they will discontinue their certificate expiration notification emails on June 4, 2025. This decision marks the end of a long-standing feature that many organizations have relied upon to manage their SSL certificates. - 2024-12-02: [DevOps and Observability Conferences to attend in 2025](https://spectate.net/blog/devops-and-observability-conferences-to-attend-in-2025.md): As the DevOps and observability landscape continues to evolve, staying current with industry trends and best practices becomes crucial. Here's our guide to the most interesting conferences in 2025 where you can share knowledge, network with peers, and explore the latest innovations in monitoring and observability. - 2024-10-06: [Introducing Spectate's new (more affordable) pricing](https://spectate.net/blog/introducing-spectates-new-more-affordable-pricing.md): Reliability just became more affordable. We have simplified our pricing even more and, yes you read that right, made it even cheaper. - 2024-09-29: [Introducing SSO with Google, GitHub and Microsoft](https://spectate.net/blog/introducing-sso-with-google-github-and-microsoft.md): We're excited to announce that Spectate now supports Single Sign-On (SSO) with three of the most popular identity providers: Google, GitHub, and Microsoft. - 2024-09-16: [A refreshed platform interface](https://spectate.net/blog/a-refreshed-platform-interface.md): Recently, we introduced you to the new Spectate rebrand. We are excited to announce we have also released a completely refreshed user interface! - 2024-05-27: [Recap of Spotlight Week 2024 Q2](https://spectate.net/blog/spotlight-week-2024-q2-recap.md): Last week was an exciting one for us at Spectate, as we unveiled a series of updates and integrations during our first-ever Spotlight Week. From new branding to enhanced alerting and incident management, we're excited to have shared these features with you. - 2024-05-24: [Connect your status page with Intercom](https://spectate.net/blog/spotlight-week-day-four-connect-your-status-page-with-intercom.md): We're back with another exciting announcement for Spotlight Week! Today, we're introducing you to our new Intercom integration, designed to reduce support burden during incidents. - 2024-05-23: [Improved alerting and incident management](https://spectate.net/blog/spotlight-week-day-three-improved-alerting-and-incident-management.md): We're continuing Spotlight Week after yesterday's announcement of the general availability of our Infrastructure Monitoring. Today, we're excited to put our enhanced alerting and incident management in the spotlights! - 2024-05-22: [Infrastructure monitoring is now in general availability](https://spectate.net/blog/spotlight-week-day-two-infrastructure-monitoring-is-now-in-general-availability.md): After an extensive period of testing with users like you, we are very excited to announce that infrastructure monitoring is now in general availability! - 2024-05-21: [Introducing Spectate's new look and website](https://spectate.net/blog/spotlight-week-day-one-introducing-a-new-look-and-website.md): We're excited to kick off our first-ever Spotlight Week, a week-long celebration of innovation and progress at Spectate! Each day, we'll be shining a spotlight on new features, updates, and announcements that showcase our commitment to making monitoring and incident management easier and more efficient. - 2023-11-30: [Announcing Spectate's affiliate program](https://spectate.net/blog/announcing-spectates-affiliate-program.md): We're excited to announce our brand-new affiliate program. Make money by referring users to Spectate and earn a 25% commission, lifetime! - 2023-08-02: [Introducing our free Hobby plan](https://spectate.net/blog/introducing-our-free-hobby-plan.md): We're excited to announce that starting today, Spectate is free to use. With our free Hobby plan, we're aiming to be more accessible to hobby and freelance developers and system administrators. It allows you to become even more familiar with Spectate and the variety of features it offers. - 2023-04-19: [We're live on Product Hunt 🚀](https://spectate.net/blog/were-live-on-product-hunt.md): It's official, Spectate is live and has been launched on Product Hunt! I am super excited to introduce you to Spectate, our all-in-one platform for monitoring, alerting, incident management, and status pages. - 2023-04-05: [Pricing & Producthunt launch announcement](https://spectate.net/blog/pricing-and-producthunt-launch-announcement.md): We're glad to announce our Producthunt launch and pricing. Since September, Spectate was free to use during the technical preview and later open beta phase. During this time, we have received immensely valuable feedback from all of you. Listening to feedback is something we'll never stop doing - as it makes Spectate even better bit by bit. - 2023-02-23: [Announcing the public beta](https://spectate.net/blog/announcing-the-public-beta.md): We are thrilled to announce the public beta of Spectate, a next-gen monitoring and incident management platform. Initially built as an internal tool, Spectate has now been expanded to enable public use.