While they could dogfood the product, status monitoring systems should be separated from your bread-and-butter product's failures. If you are in the business of

While they could dogfood the product, status monitoring systems should be separated from your bread-and-butter product's failures. If you are in the business of messing with BGP, then the BGP that controls the routes that let you report outages should not be the same one you are messing with regularly, or at least, there should be redundancy.