Every company's actual status page (and news feed) is on Twitter, no matter what else they say. I don't know where Twitter hosts their real status page. Probably Facebook.
> every company's actual status page is on Twitter
Clearly you have not experienced the absolute joy of a mission-critical locked-in-vendor B2B SaaS with no status page, no active Twitter presence, and the effective status page being a chat widget that routes to a person overseas who says "oh yeah this is a known outage on our main product please stay tuned" but there's no attempt to proactively make it visible to clients that they know there is an outage.
EDIT: fun fact, said vendor lets us use a subdomain we own, so we just route them through a Cloudflare Worker that injects Sentry into their HTML, so that we can monitor errors ourselves and raise tickets with them pretending that we know less than we actually know, because somehow we have a better observability culture than a SaaS vendor that's been around for 20 years. Don't underestimate the difference between vendor.mybrand.com and mybrand.vendor.com on a feature matrix, it may save your sanity.
During the recent Microsoft Azure AD outage, I attempted to use the chat widget. Selecting "Technical support" or "Billing Support" both seemed to return 500 status codes while the "Sales Support" routed somewhere else and connected me to a person, perfectly fine. Presumably the sales team don't use Azure for anything.
Circa 2008-2009 when I was at FB I wrote a dashboard widget for the ops team that scraped Twitter for mentions of phrases like "Facebook down" in the past 5m. It was in use for a while.
btown|4 years ago
Clearly you have not experienced the absolute joy of a mission-critical locked-in-vendor B2B SaaS with no status page, no active Twitter presence, and the effective status page being a chat widget that routes to a person overseas who says "oh yeah this is a known outage on our main product please stay tuned" but there's no attempt to proactively make it visible to clients that they know there is an outage.
EDIT: fun fact, said vendor lets us use a subdomain we own, so we just route them through a Cloudflare Worker that injects Sentry into their HTML, so that we can monitor errors ourselves and raise tickets with them pretending that we know less than we actually know, because somehow we have a better observability culture than a SaaS vendor that's been around for 20 years. Don't underestimate the difference between vendor.mybrand.com and mybrand.vendor.com on a feature matrix, it may save your sanity.
spondyl|4 years ago
roddylindsay|4 years ago
908B64B197|4 years ago
What are the odds it's some IRC bot running under someone's desk?