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Ask HN: Is Downtector a reliable and useful source of outage information?
2 points by jmartens 5y ago|2 comments
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by jmartens 5y ago
It can be useful, but you have to take it with a grain of salt. A perfect example is the recent Facebook (Meta) outage. When that happened, Downdetector showed that ATT, Verizon, and T-Mobile all had issues. They didn't, it was just Fa
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by jmartens 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback, we can do that soon.
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by jmartens 5y ago
What is the proof that AWS is down? Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.
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by jmartens 5y ago
Functional monitoring of AWS by metrist.io (I'm a co-founder) shows no AWS problems. Downdetector is not a reliable source.
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by jmartens 5y ago
We expect to have both free and paid products in GA around mid-2022.
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by jmartens 5y ago
Why not both?
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by jmartens 5y ago
Thank you for mentioning us. My name is Jeff, one of the co-founders of Metrist. We think a lot about this problem and have been building the solution for the past few months. We are still in beta, currently focused on AWS and Azure, but we
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by jmartens 5y ago
Fair point. Lots of stuff kept working, just the things that required auth were failing. So broad, but not deep.
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by jmartens 5y ago
Took about 80 minutes for them to update their status page.
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Tell HN: Azure is having a major outage
187 points by jmartens 5y ago|95 comments
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by jmartens 5y ago
Follow up article: Containers don't solve anything.
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by jmartens 5y ago
I love that this was first posted in 2012 and it is still true today! The other common bad startup idea: parking apps! When I organized and facilitated Startup Weekends, we had one in just about every batch.
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by jmartens 6y ago
Honest question for the sake of discussion/learning: What impact would it have on you if (1) the status page was updated instantly and (2) All impacted capabilities were marked as down/degraded?
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by jmartens 6y ago
Are status pages the right answer though? They seem to be a failure all around, so let's find a better solution.
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Ask HN: NPM Reliability?
1 points by jmartens 6y ago|0 comments
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by jmartens 6y ago
Unfortunately, Down Detector doesn't actually monitor these services, so we don't know if they are truly down. Down detector relies on human behavior, and we all know humans don't act rationally.
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by jmartens 6y ago
My company monitors EC2 performance and availability across North America, and EC2 has been fine this morning, according to our data (that said, they had some intermittent issues the last 3 days).
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by jmartens 6y ago
Why be nervous? Outages happen. If this were a string of major issues over a few weeks or months, that might be cause for concern, but a single incident is not.
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by jmartens 6y ago
Except, the option to ping a service in order to programmatically inform a status page is almost never used. The dirty secret of status pages is that they are almost always manually updated, typically only when a very high bar is met, and a
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by jmartens 6y ago
Blaming people/employees is bad. That said, the idea of not updating a status page quickly, to reflect reality, is a problem at almost every SaaS company in the world. As others have said, status page changes are political and impact m
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by jmartens 6y ago
In a world where we can do virtually anything we want with technology, why do we rely on vendors updating their own individual status pages?
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by jmartens 6y ago
1 million percent! Which makes me wonder, why do we all rely on status pages rather than solve the problem ourselves in ways that don't require us to rely on the vendor?
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by jmartens 6y ago
Love it!
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Ask HN: Startup VP Employment Agreements
4 points by jmartens 7y ago|1 comments
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by jmartens 7y ago
How do you monitor all these services?
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Is Product Management all about the customer?(jeffreymartens.com)
2 points by jmartens 8y ago|0 comments
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God-is hired as new Twitter head of culture and community(techcrunch.com)
1 points by jmartens 8y ago|0 comments
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What is a startup, anyway?(jeffreymartens.com)
4 points by jmartens 8y ago|0 comments
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by jmartens 9y ago
OP here. Someone from LinkedIn Product Management reached out to me yesterday on Twitter, then followed up today. He said "We reset your counters this morning. We're in the process of updating our logic as we obviously don't

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