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

[virendra rode]

Brandon -


On 08/17/2011 11:26 AM, Brandon Galbraith wrote:
> 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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Yes we have but nothing transpired and instead we have crowsourcing 
monitoring link off wiki dashboard that scrapes reports from twitter.


regards,
/virendra