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Almost no one has automatic status pages anymore. Partially because these large systems have some kind of ongoing issue at any given time, so it's challenging

Almost no one has automatic status pages anymore. Partially because these large systems have some kind of ongoing issue at any given time, so it's challenging to provide a meaningful live status that isn't a bit misleading and could cause misdirected panic. Partially because you don't want to give potential attackers (eg ddos) any insight if/how their methods are affecting your systems. Partially because there are SLAs and reputation at risk, and you don't want to admit to any more downtime than you absolutely have to.

derefr 5y ago
If you had a really robust system, it'd be fun to just slap a read-only mirror of your internal metrics dashboard onto the public Internet for anyone to browse and slice as they please. It'd be a brag, kinda. Of course, in the real world, I don't think there's a single IT admin who didn't just start nervously sweating and pulling at their collar after reading the above, imagining it as something their CEO said and encouraging them to target it. Nobody can really do this — and that in turn says something important about how those metrics really look in most systems.
- Jweb_Guru 5y ago
  FWIW, I've worked on systems that have internal SLAs orders of magnitude higher than what they promise to the public. I think it's more just that there's no advantage to doing something like this as long as none of your competitors are. The status quo is that people's systems are really opaque and vastly underpromise what they should be capable of, and in exchange you get to absorb some unplanned downtime due to issues with underlying systems that you have little control over.
- MartijnBraam 5y ago
  Sourcehut does https://metrics.sr.ht/graph?g0.expr=&g0.tab=1&g0.stacked=0&g0.range_input=1h https://metrics.sr.ht/graph?g0.expr=&g0.tab=1&g0.stacked=0&g...
- Erethon 5y ago
  Wikimedia does this https://grafana.wikimedia.org/ https://grafana.wikimedia.org/
toshk 5y ago
Yeah it seems company status page lost its infancy stage where companies were actually honest about their outages. Bit similar what happened to online reviews.

derefr 5y ago

If you had a really robust system, it'd be fun to just slap a read-only mirror of your internal metrics dashboard onto the public Internet for anyone to browse and slice as they please. It'd be a brag, kinda. Of course, in the real world, I don't think there's a single IT admin who didn't just start nervously sweating and pulling at their collar after reading the above, imagining it as something their CEO said and encouraging them to target it. Nobody can really do this — and that in turn says something important about how those metrics really look in most systems.

Jweb_Guru 5y ago
FWIW, I've worked on systems that have internal SLAs orders of magnitude higher than what they promise to the public. I think it's more just that there's no advantage to doing something like this as long as none of your competitors are. The status quo is that people's systems are really opaque and vastly underpromise what they should be capable of, and in exchange you get to absorb some unplanned downtime due to issues with underlying systems that you have little control over.
MartijnBraam 5y ago
Sourcehut does https://metrics.sr.ht/graph?g0.expr=&g0.tab=1&g0.stacked=0&g0.range_input=1h https://metrics.sr.ht/graph?g0.expr=&g0.tab=1&g0.stacked=0&g...
Erethon 5y ago
Wikimedia does this https://grafana.wikimedia.org/ https://grafana.wikimedia.org/

toshk 5y ago

Yeah it seems company status page lost its infancy stage where companies were actually honest about their outages. Bit similar what happened to online reviews.