Any metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status See all th

Any metric that becomes a target ceases to be a good metric. https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status See all those green there? Once it started becoming "monitored" by VPs instead of the software engineers on call, they started to become political. I bet there are several sev2s happening for several of those services even as we speak but it still shows green to the outside observer. If one has access to the actual metrics for those services, i bet we would see a different story than what is shown on the "status" page.