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title: "Spectate 2: on-call, escalation branches and a new dashboard"
description: "A rebuilt Spectate: on-call schedules, escalation paths that branch, new monitor types, failure screenshots, the Slack app, much better status pages and simpler pricing."
url: https://spectate.net/changelog/spectate-2
last_updated: 2026-10-25
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# Spectate 2: on-call, escalation branches and a new dashboard

> A rebuilt Spectate: on-call schedules, escalation paths that branch, new monitor types, failure screenshots, the Slack app, much better status pages and simpler pricing.

Spectate 2 is live. We rebuilt the platform from the ground up: a new API, new checkers, a new dashboard and new status pages. Your monitors, hosts, status pages, incidents and history came along.

## On-call and escalations

- **On-call schedules** with rotation layers, handoff times, weekday and time windows, and overrides. See who's on call now and for the next two weeks.
- **Escalation paths** as a visual flow: notify a channel, page whoever is on call, wait, open an incident.
- **Branches** split a path on severity, working hours, the alert's source or its labels. Steps can wait until working hours begin.
- **Phone calls with press 1 to acknowledge**, SMS, and Telegram with acknowledge buttons.
- **Alert sources**: Grafana, Prometheus Alertmanager, Sentry, a generic webhook and email fire alerts through the same paths.

## Monitoring

- New monitor types: **TCP** (with TLS and banner checks), **DNS** (record values and "answer changed" alerts), and **SMTP, IMAP and POP3**.
- **Certificate chains** are now checked from our checkers, intermediates included, with alerts for hostname mismatches, untrusted chains and issuer changes.
- **Failure snapshots**: when a website goes down, the checker that saw it keeps the response and takes a screenshot from the same region.
- Alert emails, Slack, Teams, Discord, Telegram and Pushover messages now explain what went wrong and include a **chart** of the response times around the failure.
- A new open-source **host agent** with an offline spool and signed updates. Agents you already run keep working.

## Incidents and Slack

- The **Slack app** opens a channel for every incident, keeps the timeline in sync both ways, and lets you publish to your status page from Slack.
- Roles, severities, a stage tracker and postmortems on every incident.

## Status pages

- Component status now follows **incident impact timelines** and maintenance windows, with exact start and end times in the uptime bars.
- **8 themes, 8 fonts** and your own colours, with text kept readable.
- **Six languages** for visitors, chosen from their browser.
- **Private pages** with an access link, password protection, a Statuspage-compatible JSON API, live share images and a status favicon.
- Visitors can **report a problem**, and you get an alert when traffic to your page spikes.

## A calmer dashboard

The new dashboard is quiet until something is wrong: a ⌘K palette with search, keyboard shortcuts and light and dark mode.

## Pricing

Plans are now priced per monitor, with your whole team included from the Team plan. See [pricing](https://spectate.net/pricing). Paying customers from the old platform keep their plan until the end of their paid period; we'll email you before anything changes.