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I prefer https://downdetector.com . The users get to vote there. No corporate filtering ( ostensibly )

https://downdetector.com/status/github/

>>eYrKEC+(OP)
That's a really cool overview. Some charts have a very high variance, and others very low. I wonder whether that volatility is a function of volume of users/reports or of user technical savvy. Pretty interesting either way.

>>eYrKEC+(OP)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

>>Zamico+pa
The users, apparently.

>>Zamico+pa
If you mean them going the Glassdoor/Yelp route and letting github et al buy the aforementioned corporate filtering, the assumption is that you'd eventually hear about it and stop trusting them, just like you should with Glassdoor and Yelp.

If you just mean checking whether downdetector.com is down, obviously you have to use a different service for that.

In either case, you should of course always have at least two custodes for cross-checking and backup purposes. (Which is the problem re Glassdoor and Yelp.)

>>Zamico+pa
Hacker News and Twitter

>>eYrKEC+(OP)
I just checked this when I noticed your second link: https://downdetector.com/status/downdetector/

Hilarious

>>darker+e6
Charts appear scaled by max value - high variance will probably be from background noise of random reports being scaled up without any actual outage causing a spike.

>>arthur+gz
I've used downdetector for years and this had never crossed my mind

>>eYrKEC+(OP)
Should add something about how often your status page agrees with downdetector to the Joel test.

>>eYrKEC+(OP)
Even better, they can detect services being down by the number of users opening the page to see if it's just them

>>Kinran+DP1
I've worked at major tech companies that have alerts on status page views for exactly this reason.