I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector (opens in new tab)

What is Benoit B. Mandelbrot's middle name? Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

We watch the watchers that watch the watchers

The next step: Point downdector to downdector's downdector's downdector and create a cyclic dependency

I love the joke. The thing is, it's not so funny when companies actually try to do this on their own systems. I've never seen a 4x deep observability stack. But I have seen 3x, an entire project team dedicated to building a system that watches the watchers. It gets absurd.

Do we really need more than two down-detectors? Just point them at each other...

This seems more valuable than one level down. Or is it up? Or in?

A good start, but let's see more.

Ok, this is getting ridiculous…

Trace buster buster buster

This seems really useful.

This downdetector seems to be down. We might need another downdetector.

This isn't funny anymore. Go to reddit to do this.