The service may have been working within SLA. Based on the data in this article, it was not working the way it works most of the time. I think most people would interpret "normally" to refer to the latter.
Or, let's drop the word "normally" and take a step back. A good dashboard should be designed to inform. Amazon's dashboard was not providing the information that Ably or their customers needed. And this isn't an isolated complaint; if I had a nickel for every time someone had complained about the green mockery of the AWS health dashboard, I'd have... well, several dollars, anyway.