Sorry for the slow update, incident was triggered and analysis continues. You can follow at https://gitlab.com/gitlab-com/gl-infra/production/-/issues/5...

> Where else do people go for confirmation of problems?

You are using it already :) https://status.gitlab.com/ or if you prefer tweets, the updates are also posted to https://twitter.com/gitlabstatus

A more general approach I use - search on Twitter for the project name. If many users say that something does not work, it usually is not a "me" problem. Another strategy is to use websites which do connectivity tests from different locations (example: https://tools.keycdn.com/ping). You can use SSL scanning sites for that matter too.