alt Hacker NewsSame. It's weird how I always find out that GitHub is down before GitHub does. Took 15 minutes before it appeared on githubstatus.com
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simonjgreen • today at 12:30 PM
More likely that 'update the Status site' lives a long way down their incident response plan, and they have alarms going off well before that
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re-thc • today at 12:40 PM
> It's weird how I always find out that GitHub is down before GitHub does
No, it's not. Official updates = potential SLA penalties. Always requires approval.
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chrisjj • today at 4:30 PM
> githubstatus.com
There's a threshold. It shows only once 1000 users complain.
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All these monitoring rules are of the format "when 500 errors > baseline for x minutes". Otherwise you'd have monitoring alerts every second. So it is normal for users to already see errors before github officially counts it as an outage.