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The status page clearly states (when I look) that:

Incident on 2020-07-15 15:41 UTC We are investigating reports of degraded performance. Posted 9 minutes ago. Jul 15, 2020 - 15:41 UTC

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Currently it does, indeed. From my Slack logs, at 15:00 UTC I noticed problems. I'm pretty sure that message is manually created, at least 41 minutes after the fact.

That's the most annoying thing. Usually when I get notifications from monitoring about some issue, the first thing I do is check the vendor or provider's status page to see whether it's an issue on their end. If there's nothing, I go and investigate.

Recently, more and more of them take 10-15 minutes until they mention a service outage. I don't work in super HA, I don't want to get an alarm because a single ping failed etc, so I'm lenient and have a few minutes of a delay in alarms. If I'm writing an internal incident report before the official status page is updated, that's bad.

This seems similar: external users noticing the outage and posting on HN before GitHub notices & acknowledges it.

Idea for an startup: Paying a service to do independent health checks to popular services with the ability to select the services i would like to be notified of their health status.

Pagerduty,OpsGenie, etc?

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