AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1

Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by bigiain on Monday October 20, 2025 @06:11PM (#45650078)

I spent enough time ~15 years back to find an external monitoring service that did not run on AWS and looked like a sustainable business instead of a VC fueled acquisition target - for our belts-n-braces secondary monitoring tool since it's not smart to trust CloudWatch to be able to send notifications when it's AWS's shit that's down.

Sadly while I still use that tool a couple of jobs/companies later - I no longer recommend it because it migrated to AWS a few years back.

(For now, my out-of-AWS monitoring tool is a bunch of cron jobs running on a collections of various inexpensive vpses and my and other dev's home machines.)

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by 6031769 on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @06:28AM (#45654279)

Nagios is still a thing and you can host it wherever you like.

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Re:AWS Multiple Services Down in us-east-1 by bigiain on Tuesday October 21, 2025 @11:21PM (#45664604)

Interestingly, the reason I originally looked for and started using it was an unapproved "shadow IT" response to an in-house Nagios setup that was configured and managed so badly it had _way_ more downtime than any of the services I'd get shouted about at if customers noticed them down before we did...

(No disrespect to Nagios, I'm sure a competently managed installation is capable of being way better than what I had to put up with.)

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