Creating Changelogs / product updates

Hi everyone!

I need to create a status page and a changelog/release notes for a software’s website.

For the status page, I’m wondering if there’s a way to connect it to the system so that updates are pushed automatically or a way to push the updates to the website?

Here are some examples of what I’m looking for:

Any advice or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!

Hi Sabrina, two possibilities come to mind.

If the changelog is sourced from a public github repo, there is a JSON feed you can query to extract recent releases.

Just take your Github public repo URL and reform it like this-

https://api.github.com/repos/(organization)/(repo)/releases

If you want more information and a more convenient way to display it, I’d look into setting up an automation from your source control management system that writes the content into the CMS.

From there you can display it much more conveniently.

Thank you! I understand the changelog can be done easily through CMS

But can a status page also be created through automation + CMS? I was looking at solutions like this: Public Status Page | Better Stack

but I was wondering if it could be done natively in webflow or if there is a better/more common way on doing this

If you’re trying to use someone else’s status page, you can likely just IFRAME if

If the status reflects your own SaaS service uptime, than it’s generally tied to a monitoring service and a help-desk console so that the team can indicate when problems have been reported, identified, etc.

Webflow’s is a good example of this;

You can build the design easily in Webflow, but depending on what you want to show ( past incidents log? ), and whether you want automated monitoring to indicate problems it detects, you’d have to weigh the options.

I generally want automated monitoring, so I’d generally use a 3rd party solution. Betterstack looks pretty good.

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This is perfect, thank you!!