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Re:Ask HN: Why are most status pages delayed? on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:30AM (#45812809)
I think it all has to do with how companies react to their own outages and their processes around publishing the info. I imagine that bigger companies need to go through a process to validate all the information they share with the public.

I don't think it's a factor in how Statuspage works. Cloudflare, for example, uses them, and usually it's pretty fast to update their status page and release outage information.

For companies that need to monitor critical dependencies, my company ( https://isdown.app ) helps by aggregating status page information with crowdsourced reports. This way, companies can be alerted way sooner than when the status page is updated.

Connect all your vendors status pages to your Better Stack account

Posted by ntomas on Monday May 05, 2025 @12:46PM
from the self-post dept.

Now you can monitor third-party outages right in your Better Stack account with https://isdown.app.What will you get?Single incident feed – Internal alerts and third-party outages appear in the same view.Noise control – Filter vendors, components, and severities so only relevant problems reach your Better Stack account.Instant context – Each incident has the vendor name and a direct link to the...

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Re:Reddit Looks Down on Thursday March 27, 2025 @03:58PM (#43497498)
They release an update that it's recovering.

https://isdown.app/status/reddit/incidents/375447-degraded-p...

Re:DockerHub Registry Down on Thursday February 06, 2025 @03:44AM (#42960389)
A lot of people are complaining in https://isdown.app/status/docker/docker-hub-registry as well.

Show HN: IsDown.app – Monitor all your vendor status pages from one location

Posted by ntomas on Thursday March 21, 2024 @06:39AM
from the show-hn dept.

https://isdown.app/

Hi there! I'm the founder of IsDown.app.A bit how it started. Some years ago, when I was on call, I found it hard to keep track of all the different status pages for the services we use, so I started to play around with the idea of aggregating them all into one place.That was the original push to create IsDown. Over the last years, we've started monitoring thousands of status pages and added...

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Re:Tell HN: Heroku crashes for new deploys on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @06:59PM (#36132291)
I got an update on the support ticket. To try to deploy a new release and check if it works again. It worked for me.
Re:Tell HN: Heroku crashes for new deploys on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:41PM (#36129581)
Yep... founder of IsDown here!

Really happy with this! At least we are still monitoring everything, and it will continue to send notifications...

I will receive a notification from IsDown when Heroku status page is updated :)

Re:Tell HN: Heroku crashes for new deploys on Tuesday May 30, 2023 @03:27PM (#36129389)
Checking the logs for the web process, and they are working correctly. The worker process also working fine.

The problem is with the Heroku router...

Re:Ask HN: How did your startup get the first payment? on Thursday September 01, 2022 @05:54AM (#32674212)
I would say almost from day 1. Even at a lower price, it's an important step to validate an idea. When people need to put their credit card in and give you money, it's another level of commitment that I don't think you will have with a free plan.

It is a level of commitment from the user but also from you. If you're getting paid, it's expected that, for example, if a service is down/not working, you need to fix it.

For many years, I've tried to put side projects out and was never to keep up with them. Only on my latest project (https://isdown.app) did I put the payments. And from the moment people started paying, I felt I was in debt to them, creating the extra motivation to keep going.