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

[Bino Gopal]

Ok so from this thread we have so far:

http://api-status.com/

http://downrightnow.com/

and someone directed me to this site, which seems pretty good too:

http://host-tracker.com/?sdm=1

(And as pointed out http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/ shows google.com as currently down for it [it’s not for anyone else I think] so I wouldn’t really trust it… :P)

So the first thing anyone should do if something is down is to check any/all of these sites first before mailing the list.  And with as many people that have 3G even if your personal connection is down (or just having issues) this will let you isolate that rather quickly…

Can we put links to these sites somewhere in the outages home page and/or FAQ for new users?  And any other suggestions on making things easier/better for people to check themselves first are welcome in this thread…thanks guys!

                                                                                                                BINO



From: pascal.charest at gmail.com [mailto:pascal.charest at gmail.com] On Behalf Of Pascal Charest
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2011 12:11 PM
To: Brandon Galbraith
Cc: Bino Gopal; outages-discussion
Subject: Re: [Outages-discussion] Idea to help with the S/N on outages...

Something akin to :

http://api-status.com/

?

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Pascal Charest,
Cutting-edge technology consultant @ Les Laboratoires Phoenix
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On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 2:27 PM, Brandon Galbraith <brandon.galbraith at gmail.com<mailto:brandon.galbraith at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 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?
I should note that Pingdom supports posting down/up alerts to Twitter.
Anyone have an outages twitter account setup yet everyone could follow
I could have an account post to?


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