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1. stefan+y1[view] [source] 2023-06-29 17:46:51
>>mikebo+(OP)
So down right now...I wonder why they still use https://www.githubstatus.com/ that reports everything is alright when it's not!
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2. SV_Bub+22[view] [source] 2023-06-29 17:48:49
>>stefan+y1
If it takes someone to manually change it from green to red, that does seem to defeat the purpose.
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3. jabart+i3[view] [source] 2023-06-29 17:52:59
>>SV_Bub+22
No it doesn't. The amount of false alarm alerts you can get with internet based monitoring is more than 0. You could have a BGP route break things for one ISP your monitoring happens to use. You could have a failover event happening where it takes 30 seconds for everything to converge. I have multiple monitors on my app at 1 minute intervals from different vendors and ALWAYS a user will email us within 5 seconds of an issue. It's not realistic for a company to have automatic status updates trigger things without a person manually reviewing them because too many things can go wrong on the automatic status update to cause panic.
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