Incident Timeline
See incidents, deployments, and check status plotted visually across time, grouped by project.
Timeline is a visual, bird's-eye view of everything happening across your workspace over a chosen window of time. Instead of a list, you get a horizontal chart: every check's status is drawn as a colored bar, with incidents and deployments marked on top of it — all grouped by project.
Timeline vs. Overview
Incidents Overview is a searchable list built for triage — find a specific incident, filter by state, and work through what's open right now.
Timeline is for seeing the shape of things over time — spotting patterns like an outage that keeps happening right after every deploy, or several checks going down at once. It's especially useful for retrospectives and spotting recurring problems.
What you'll see
Open Incidents > Timeline in the side rail. Checks are grouped under their project, and each check gets its own row:
- Colored bars show what the check's status was at every point in time — healthy, down, late, paused, or new.
- Small markers on top of a check's row mark incidents and deployments that happened for that check.
- A thin red line marks the current time, so you can see at a glance how far into the window "now" falls.
A legend at the bottom of the page explains every color.
Hover over any bar or marker to see the details in a tooltip — the status and how long it lasted, or the incident's title and state, or the deployment's version.
Choosing a time range
Pick a preset range
Use the range dropdown in the top-right of the toolbar to jump to a common window:
- 1 hour
- 6 hours
- 24 hours
- 7 days
- 30 days
Use Today to snap back to the current time. Next to it, two arrow buttons step the whole window backward or forward one full window at a time.
Zoom and pan for a custom view
You're not limited to the presets. Hold Ctrl (or Cmd on a Mac) while scrolling — or pinch on a trackpad — over the chart to zoom in or out, centered on wherever your cursor is. A plain scroll just scrolls the list of checks up and down. To pan, swipe or shift-scroll horizontally to move left and right through time. The date label at the top updates as you go, and the range dropdown shows Custom once you've zoomed past a preset.
Filter to one project
Use the All projects dropdown on the left of the toolbar to narrow the view down to a single project. Clear it to go back to seeing everything.
Collapse projects you don't need right now
Click a project's header row (the bold row with the check count next to it) to collapse or expand its checks. This is useful when you only want to focus on one or two projects out of many.
Showing alert activity
Toggle Show alerts in the toolbar to overlay a marker every time an alert notification was sent for a check. This is off by default to keep the view uncluttered — turn it on when you want to check whether alerts actually fired around a given incident.
Jumping to an incident
Click any incident marker (the red one) to go straight to that incident's detail page. Deployment markers aren't clickable — hover over one to see its version and timing instead.
Nothing showing up?
If the chart is empty, there were no check status changes, incidents, or deployments in the current time range and filters. Try widening the range (the empty state offers a quick jump to the last 24 hours) or clearing your project filter.