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This might be an interesting service for companies that are paying for software with uptime in their SLA and want to hold them accountable. It would probably pa

• LinuxBender 8y ago
  There are companies that do this, but they do not get involved in the 3rd party SLA legal issues. In my humble opinion, I think that each consumer of Slack and other web services should implement their own monitoring. It probably would not hurt to open source the monitoring so that Slack and the ilk can help keep your monitoring accurate and honest. This would empower others to replicate your methods for the service providers they consume as well without having to pay monitoring service providers. They will only show outages from their perspective and some of them run from Amazon, which may be sub-optimal in this case. Some existing open source tooling are Nagios and Sensu. Sensu being a little more dynamic and cloud friendly and a newer kid at the table. There are chef and ansible scripts for both of these.