[Outages-discussion] Idea to help with the S/N on outages...

[Brandon Galbraith]

On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Bino Gopal <Bino.Gopal at citrix.com> wrote:
> So the recent Netflix thread just got me thinking…why hasn’t someone (or
> have they, in which case they should publicize it more and spread the word
> and it should be mentioned in response to the “noisy” posts), set up
> real-time monitoring of these “popular” services like Netflix, Facebook,
> from multiple different locations so that people can go there and check it
> first before posting here?

I have a Pingdom account, and would be glad to add public services and
make the reports generated public.

Has anyone thought of an outages-automated-alerts list? Where
notifications are sent (emails/texts) when public services are marked
as down by a monitoring service?

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Brandon Galbraith
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