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GCP status page is worthless as it's always happy and green when production systems are down and then they might acknowledge something an hour later
by ksajadi 7y ago
GCP status page is worthless as it's always happy and green when production systems are down and then they might acknowledge something an hour later
- JimboOmega 7y agoJust like AWS, then. "Some users are experiencing increased error rates" = "Everything has been down for hours"
- bsimpson 7y ago"Everything is fine, unless you're Carl. There's a massage outage, but only at Carl's house. Sorry, Carl."
- notatoad 7y agoI'm also experiencing a massage outage. Please send masseuse.
- bsimpson 7y agoGoddammit some (most?) days I can't type. "Massive"
- quickthrower2 7y agoI got the missive. Thanks.
- djsumdog 7y agoI remember when S3 was down and the status was green because the updates for the status page with pushed via S3.
- chmhsm 7y agoThat's not just ironic, that's stupid. How do you count on S3 to update S3 status? Isn't that a huge design fault?
- philliphaydon 7y agoYes and they fixed that. :)
- Analemma_ 7y agoAzure too. During the most recent outage a couple weeks ago their Twitter account acknowledged the incident an hour before the status page did. So no matter where you go for your cloud services, you're guaranteed a useless status page. Yippee.
- lionradio 7y agoI think this might be a static page they are hosting on Akamai?
- Godel_unicode 7y agoDoesn't look like it: https://www.whoishostingthis.com/#search=status.cloud.google.com https://www.whoishostingthis.com/#search=status.cloud.google...
- actuator 7y agoAWS is no better. Something from 2015 I remember: https://twitter.com/SIGKILL/status/630684777813684224?s=19 https://twitter.com/SIGKILL/status/630684777813684224?s=19
- duxup 7y agoI swear most status pages are run by folks who aren't "there".
- hinkley 7y agoI haven’t written a status page in a while, but the rest of my infrastructure starts freaking out if it hasn’t heard from a service in a while. Why doesn’t their status page have at least a warning about things not looking good?
- duxup 7y agoIn my experience public status pages are "political" and no matter how they start tend to trend towards higher management control in some way... that leads to people who don't know, aren't in the thick of it, don't understand it, and / or are cautious to the point that it stops being useful.
- jsty 7y agoNot only political, but with SLAs on the line they have significant financial and legal consequences as well. Most managers are probably happier keeping the ‘incident declaring power’ in as few a hands as possible to make sure those penalty clauses aren’t ever un-necessarily triggered.
- hinkley 7y agoThat’s fraud in other industries.
- Scoundreller 7y agoSame with most corporate twitter feeds. I’d like to follow my public transit/airport/highway authority, but it’ll be 10 posts about Kelly’s great work in accounting for every service disruption. And No, I don’t want to install a separate app to get push notifications about service disruptions for every service I use.
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- domenici2000 7y agoThey update the page manually.
- emilfihlman 7y agoDigitalocean has the same issue: status pages are actually manually updated and no live data is fed into them.
- intellix 7y agoWas noticing massive issues earlier and thought that maybe my account was blocked due to breaching from TOS as I was heavily playing with Cloud Run. Then I noticed gitlab was also acting up but my Chinese internet was still surprisingly responsive. Tried the status page which said everything was fine and searched Twitter for "google cloud" and also found nobody talking about it. Typically Twitter is the single source of truth for service outages as people start talking about it