Except, the option to ping a service in order to programmatically inform a status page is almost never used. The dirty secret of status pages is that they are a

Except, the option to ping a service in order to programmatically inform a status page is almost never used. The dirty secret of status pages is that they are almost always manually updated, typically only when a very high bar is met, and after senior managers, sometimes even comms people, approve it.