[GH-ISSUE #1048] Feature requests: Markdown Descriptions and Search by Slug #729

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opened 2026-02-25 23:43:23 +03:00 by kerem · 2 comments

kerem commented

2026-02-25 23:43:23 +03:00

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Originally created by @matt17r on GitHub (Aug 15, 2024).
Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/1048

There are so many little details about healthchecks.io that show you care about your work and that make the app a delight to use:

When sorting by name, numbers are sorted numerically not alphabetically (so I don't have to write 02 to make 2 show up before 10)
Tags are flexible and the tag buttons up the top are colour coded
Click to copy ping URL
Ability to bulk select/deselect checks per integration (without having to individually deselect the integration in all 97 checks)
Recently used timezones when configuring cron schedules
Thorough documentation

Two things that would make the app better (in my opinion) are:

being able to use Markdown in the description field
being able to search the checks by both name and slug

Originally created by @matt17r on GitHub (Aug 15, 2024). Original GitHub issue: https://github.com/healthchecks/healthchecks/issues/1048 There are so many little details about healthchecks.io that show you care about your work and that make the app a delight to use: - When sorting by name, numbers are sorted numerically not alphabetically (so I don't have to write 02 to make 2 show up before 10) - Tags are flexible and the tag buttons up the top are colour coded - Click to copy ping URL - Ability to bulk select/deselect checks per integration (without having to individually deselect the integration in all 97 checks) - Recently used timezones when configuring cron schedules - Thorough documentation Two things that would make the app better (in my opinion) are: - being able to use Markdown in the description field - being able to search the checks by both name **and** slug

kerem commented

2026-02-25 23:43:23 +03:00

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@cuu508 commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2024):

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions!

Being able to search by slug makes sense, and is easy to implement, so I went ahead and did that.

Formatting the description using Markdown also makes sense, and has been suggested before. This will take a bit more thinking and planning. For some integration types, we include the description in the notification body. And some platforms already interpret it as [some subset of] markdown. Others support HTML formatting, and others only plain text. I'll need to go through the list of integrations to and see what format conversions need to be done where for consistent results.

@cuu508 commented on GitHub (Aug 15, 2024): Thanks for the feedback and suggestions! Being able to search by slug makes sense, and is easy to implement, so I went ahead and did that. Formatting the description using Markdown also makes sense, and has been suggested before. This will take a bit more thinking and planning. For some integration types, we include the description in the notification body. And some platforms already interpret it as [some subset of] markdown. Others support HTML formatting, and others only plain text. I'll need to go through the list of integrations to and see what format conversions need to be done where for consistent results.

kerem commented

2026-02-25 23:43:23 +03:00

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@mathieumd commented on GitHub (Sep 29, 2025):

I was just going to add a FR for Markdown in description too! So, +1 to this!

@mathieumd commented on GitHub (Sep 29, 2025): I was just going to add a FR for Markdown in description too! So, +1 to this!