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As the person in charge of one such page, I’d like to take the opportunity to remind folks that many— if not most—of these status pages are hand-updated, and most bosses absolutely hate anyone having to update them to anything but green.

>>jachee+(OP)
Sounds like an anti-pattern or SLA dodge to me.

>>salawa+c2
Sometimes, but sometimes it’s just a precaution against automatic false alarms causing a huge panic.

>>bernie+fj
See, I prefer panic. People don't pay enough attention to systems as it is. May just yeet together a bunch of parts and never bother to learn to actually troubleshoot or maintain, or reason through things.