[Kenny_007]

For us the main shift was accepting that “being able to work locally” and “knowing whether users are affected” are two different problems.

Local dev usually survives outages just fine. What hurts is losing external signals and assuming things are okay when they’re not.

After a few incidents like this, we stopped relying on a single monitoring setup. One self-hosted probe plus at least one fully independent external check reduced blind spots a lot. It doesn’t prevent outages, but it avoids flying blind during them.