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I don't understand the point of real time status pages if they are clearly not real time and not accurate.

My error notifications were blowing up my phone, the first thing I did is check their status page and assumed issue is within my application, and I couldn't even access my backend application. Out of desperation, I had to check downdetector to confirm the issue. I have formed new respect for downdetector.

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1. It only goes to red after a set of humans determine it's really high impact and should be made public. Minor or localized outages rarely qualify.

2. Previous point is ignored very often and outage is only made public when major clients or news organizations take notice and inquire.

I like AWS's approach of having your own personal incidents page. Still not exactly real time but better than an unchanging wall of green. And they include performance degradations as incidents which is nice.

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