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Do these status dashboards have any more credibility left? Always showing green when services are down.

Trying to understand here, do you think companies make these as a minimum status directly into their monitoring, or as a communications dashboard that someone upates, in aggregate?

I imagine its insanely difficult to write an automated status dashboard since a problem can cause the service to not work while not having everything entirely broken.

The apis tested by the automated system could all still be working. Probably the only way would be to have a constantly running vm testing everything via the web ui.

It's not that difficult, just a piece of work. Google has teams dedicated to just that kind of work and internally has the automated dashboards that update real-time. The confusion here is that the page linked is not it. This is some static HTML or such that is updated when a human has triaged the issue, determined and aggregated scope and got an OK from another human (or more, depending on the situation).

Of course. Green means the service is working for me. It is Red when the service is not working for me, and clearly neither for nobody else. Orange means it doesn't work for me, but you might have better luck.

Several services haven't been working for me for 20 minutes and the dashboard hasn't been updated. They're effectively useless.

A few months ago when all the auth services stopped working it took them a while to update the pages too.

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