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What do you use to monitor the status of the respective sites? Ping/head request to the site/api?

I actually don't monitor the status myself, I monitor the status that each service publishes. That is, whatever they report on their status page, StatusGator aggregates.

The whole thing was born after I was racking my brain trying to debug a problem, then I remembered to check status.whatever.com and realized it wasn't my problem to debug and the provider was already aware of it. I thought it would be nice to get notifications as well as aggregate that info from all the different services I use.

Cool site! Any plans to add IBM Bluemix? Their status page is at https://developer.ibm.com/bluemix/support/#status

Done.

Note a feature in the pipeline which will allow you to subscribe to specific components or specific regions of services. Which will make status notifications for large cloud platforms like Bluemix, Openshift, AWS, DigitalOcean, etc. much more useful.

In a situation like this, how do you know that routing to the status page is not the problem? Many of these companies use statuspage.io which is on AWS.

Edit: this is an edge case, clearly. I just think it's an interesting problem.

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