all green, which does not reflect reality for me (e.g. Gmail is down)
edit: shows how incredibly difficult introspection is
Also wondering if this is perhaps the fastest upvoted HN post ever? 8 mins -> ~350 votes, 15 mins -> ~750 votes. I wonder if @dang could chime in with some stats?
Update: looks like it hit 1000 upvotes in ~25 mins!
Update: 1500 in ~40 mins
Update: 2000 in ~1 hour 20 mins (used the HN API for the timestamp)
I love (and am deeply scared by) the dependence of Google and the confusion of it with the entire internet.
>I’m sitting here in the dark in my toddler’s room because the light is controlled by @Google Home. Rethinking... a lot right now.
Some people are compiling more relevant events: https://twitter.com/internetofshit
Faster than a free third-party website’s response time. Google should know they are down and tell people about it before Hacker News, Twitter, etc. Google should be the source of truth for Google service status, not social media.
> And what level of detail?
Enough to not tell people that there are “No issues” with services.
> I'd much rather have their team focus on fixing this as fast as possible than trying to update that dashboard in the first 5 minutes.
Google employs enough people to do both.
It's not like they would be working on the status page right now, that work should have been done a long time ago...
If you are logged in, the page crashes with an error.
You can still browse all services from Incognito (which for some is not an option).
Also, you can’t use many parts of Gmail, Drive, Photos, etc, without being logged in.
But I guess it's technically not part of /appsstatus
edit:parent updated comment
But funnily enough, a lot of the votes come from traffic that searches for "is ____ down?" on Google. XD
Do love how more consumer services (ISPs &c) always have some report of being down somewhere but its means nothing unless there's a big spike.
The issue isn't "negative" realities, it is saying something while investigating that might break contracts only to find later that it wasn't true.
/s
The small print says: The problem with Gmail should be resolved for the vast majority of affected users. We will continue to work towards restoring service for the remaining affected users...
At Google scale, "remaining affected users" probably number in tens of millions. Sucks to be one of them, tho.
But hey, it happens. As a SaaS maintainer, I can sympathise with any SREs involved in handling this, and know that no service can be up 100% of the time.
Monitoring is very simple, I even learned this from a document released by the Google devops team many years ago.
Always alert from the end user perspective. So in other words have an external server test login to Gmail. Simple as that.
They manually update that status page to not scare away stockholders.
