Very few of these public status pages are tied directly to the metrics. They get updated when an internal incident has been created, triaged, and a comms person

Very few of these public status pages are tied directly to the metrics. They get updated when an internal incident has been created, triaged, and a comms person has put together the status message to communicate. I mean, think about it, would you want something like this to create a massive "all endpoints down" incident when you have a metrics pipeline issue? For a public company with shareholders?