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I tried to monitor services status using https://stop.lying.cloud https://stop.lying.cloud, but they are also hosted to AWS, and down too.
by QuiiBz 5y ago
I tried to monitor services status using https://stop.lying.cloud https://stop.lying.cloud, but they are also hosted to AWS, and down too.
- civilized 5y agoIf they're monitoring AWS downtime they might want to rethink this.
- cinntaile 5y agoHow come? It's accurate.
- johnisgood 5y agoTrue, if it is down, then that means AWS is down (not necessarily, obviously). :D But honestly, if they want to monitor AWS, they gotta pick something else for this reason, something that is not down when AWS is.
- jeanlucas 5y agoWell... Yes. Hahahah
- nexuist 5y agoWork smarter, not harder
- civilized 5y agoI guess it depends on whether you like your FALSE's encoded as timeouts :)
- deleted 5y ago[deleted]
- mishftw 5y agoFunny I didn't know that and assumed it was okay
- synergy20 5y agoAWS should monitor itself from Azure or GCP, even DO or Linode makes more sense. Eat your own dog food shows confidence, but monitoring it is a different dimension, you need use anything but your own dog food there.
- itisit 5y agoAWS wouldn't monitor itself from a competitor, of course, but they could just as well silo a team and isolate DCs to do independent self-auditing.
- rozenmd 5y agoI don't know about AWS, but I know a lot of us uptime monitoring makers use (and pay) for competitor's products to know if we're down.
- itisit 5y agoRightly so. My point is a company can self-audit without having to pay a competitor.
- lostlogin 5y agoAbsolutely. And even if it’s cheaper to use the competition, an expensive custom solution will be found.
- whimsicalism 5y agoI think that is inherently riskier because you never know on what axis you will have a failure and it is difficult to exclude all shared axes.
- 8note 5y agoThat applies when you use competitors too. They could have a related outage, or even a coincidentally timed one
- saganus 5y agoHow does this service work? It seems to have all the look and feel of AWS, and somehow has more up to date info than the official AWS status page?
- fishtoaster 5y agoIt's the same info - it just changes all blues to yellows and all yellows to reds. :)
- saganus 5y agoI had no idea! Pretty funny actually.
- moneywoes 5y agoThat’s hilarious
- tinco 5y agoNow that they're back up they're not reporting any problems, how is it supposed to work? It looks like it is just repeating the status reported on the Amazon status page.
- fishtoaster 5y agoIt is. It's just the AWS status page run through a transformation function to: 1. Remove all the thousand green services that no one cares about when looking at AWS status 2. Upgrade all yellows to reds because Amazon refuses to list anything as "down" no matter how bad the outage is. 3. Insert a snarky legend
- taormina 5y agoI mean, sounds like it's working as intended then?
- QuinnyPig 5y agoYeah, I homed https://stop.lying.cloud https://stop.lying.cloud out of us-west-2. Oops.