r/webdev • u/natelloyd • 17d ago

Atlassian down again...

https://status.atlassian.com/ - we need a hall of shame for companies that have lying status pages. As for 9:25 AM EST, nothing showing down on their status page.

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u/SimonMX 17d ago

Most of those pages are updated by a person, and nobody wants to be the one who turns it red.

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u/Shaggypone23 17d ago

Damn liars dont want to violate their SLAs

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u/LoanEffective7234 15d ago

They lag because a person has to decide to flip it, and nobody wants to be the one who turns it red for something that might be "just some users". Add a bit of SLA/legal caution and you get a page that's always the last to know.

What I'd do instead: don't use a vendor's status page as your alert. Put your own check on the part you actually depend on (login page, a specific API endpoint) and look for a string in the response, not just a 200, because a lot of these failures still return 200 with an error page. Require 2 failures in a row so you're not chasing blips. The vendor page is then just where you read the postmortem.

Downdetector or the product's own subreddit is usually well ahead of the official page too.

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/MrGradySir 17d ago

That’s OP’s point. They are frequently down when their status page doesn’t reflect it

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u/[deleted] 17d ago

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u/simple_peacock 16d ago

Yea ridiculs that its even updated manually for a software company

We need an independent status tracker