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Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by scrollaway on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:45PM (#29363218)
That's honestly a good idea. Does anyone do that?
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by hnarn on Saturday November 27, 2021 @04:21PM (#29363671)
A telco I used to work for did this like two decades ago but even better, they mapped incoming support calls (customers) to stations, and if more than N came in during a certain period for the same DSLAM it triggered some kind of alert.

Same thing happens (should happen) when you visit your ISPs website and look for registered downtime — many requests from one zip code from multiple ips should trigger an alarm if the isp is competent.

Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by cranekam on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:52PM (#29363296)
In my last job our main “is everything okay?” monitoring dashboard had RPS, latency, 500 rate etc and a line for the number of user issues reported per N requests served. We didn’t alert on this but it was a useful way to detect issues that were subtle enough not to trip up our main alerts.
Re:Tell HN: GitHub is down again by gdubicki on Saturday November 27, 2021 @03:49PM (#29363266)
My company does. :)