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Ask HN: Is Downtector a reliable and useful source of outage information?
- chx111 5y agoI use it daily and it has seemed to be fairly accurate for me. I am open to alternatives, though, but I haven't really gone looking for one.
- yosefjaved1 5y agoNo as it's completely based on users reporting if an issue exists. If a user doesn't report the outage, then it doesn't get caught. Try ThousandEyes Outage Map - https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/ The map is free and it's updated every 5 minutes showing ongoing and recently detected outages. ThousandEyes actually monitors servers of cloud networks and popular applications for disruptions in activity, which is a lot different than Downdector's reliance on user sentiment.