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Re:Google outage – resolved by pupdogg on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:01AM (#25416237)
What's the point of having a status page when it can't reliably tell you the factual status?
Re:Google outage – resolved by woofie11 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:02AM (#25416273)
Helps Google meet a 99.999% SLA!
Re:Google outage – resolved by koheripbal on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:59AM (#25416942)
Not really since now it's up, and the status page still says it's down.
Re:Google outage – resolved by keithnoizu on Monday December 14, 2020 @08:09AM (#25417046)
right after I shamed them on twitter. I take responsibility despite it unlikely having any impact.
Re:Google outage – resolved by oneeyedpigeon on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:03AM (#25416285)
Especially one that breaks the back button.
Re:Google outage – resolved by jaimex2 on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:04AM (#25416300)
Customer confidence. Same as how everyone reports they have 99.99% uptime.
Re:Google outage – resolved by petre on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:08AM (#25416356)
Then their status page is not unlike like target reporting in the USSR: completely fictional.
Re:Google outage – resolved by phaer on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:39AM (#25416737)
From personal experience and other Ops peoples stories, I'd assume that could be the case for many status pages ;)
Re:Google outage – resolved by szatkus on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:26AM (#25416574)
It's red already.
Re:Google outage – resolved by s_dev on Monday December 14, 2020 @07:35AM (#25416689)
No -- it needs to be red when it's having the outage for people to have confidence in it as an indicator. The reality is Google have no real incentive to provide an actual external status page that is accurate -- to do so is an admission of not upholding SLAs. These status pages are updated retrospectively. Use a third party one like DownDetector.