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by Ryan Harman

The IsUpMap lets you check the status of over 100 major sites at once (isupmap.com)

111 points by mikelgan 13 hours ago

colinbartlett 5 hours ago

Pretty cool visualization.

I've been building something like this for 12 years now.

One major difference is mine does not only rely on the "official" status page but also receive millions of reports from users about outages.

So your single pane of glass can show not just known outages but emerging ones that haven't been acknowledged yet by providers.

Also supports more than 8,000 services.

pc86 an hour ago

Where do you source these "millions of reports" from?

iFred 28 minutes ago

I mean, their viz is free and straight forward, not hidden behind a paywall or a demo page. I also appreciate not putting any comment based signal indicators as that is often noise.

ashfn 9 hours ago

Something must be wrong, it's showing github as up!

marcosdumay 25 minutes ago

So is reddit.

But then, the home page can be cached, and bots can be batched and nobody would ever notice the difference.

throrork 4 hours ago

GitHub does not report their outages. If you see GitHub.com, does not mean GH actions are working.

ninju an hour ago

I notice that the site 'boxes' are different sizes.

Does the size indicate anything?

0123456789ABCDE 10 hours ago

beautiful visualization of "complex systems run in degraded mode"

https://how.complexsystems.fail/#5

zenoprax 9 hours ago

What a great capsule of wisdom!

There is still a tendency within some parts of aviation (safety auditing) to look for root causes and use tools like "fish bone diagrams" despite the more holistic approach used after an actual crash or incident.

kortilla 8 hours ago

A bunch of different services on a single status page doesn’t make it a complex system. Most of these have no relation to each other other than the high level services on the cloud providers.

rcxdude 8 hours ago

They're all part of the internet, which is one of the most complex systems ever built.

0123456789ABCDE 8 hours ago

> A bunch of different services on a single status page doesn’t make it a complex system.

you're it does not.

> Most of these have no relation to each other other than the high level services on the cloud providers.

so, some of them are related to each other? some of them even share underlying infrastructure? perhaps multiple of these are considered infrastructure for some teams?

what is the point you're trying to make?

sammy2255 6 hours ago

Probably unfair to class Cloudflare as "degraded" they have over 300 PoPs theres always going to be some in maintenance mode and re-routed

politelemon 11 hours ago

Auth0 and Slack appear degraded here, but not on their status pages

colinbartlett 5 hours ago

This app looks to be incorrectly parsing Slack and Auth0 official status page and showing incidents as ongoing that are not

And those are just the 2 that I checked.

To be fair, accurately scraping and normalizing data from status pages is really hard to to do consistently (my company has a team of 5 engineers to do it and it's a lot of work).

somewhatgoated 8 hours ago

Yea I was wondering where that data/info was coming from?

And what does it mean exactly?

xiphias2 10 hours ago

Cloudflare as well

talonx 4 hours ago

Services like Cloudflare and Twilio have so many POPs globally that one or more always have an outage going on. Then there's the question of whether it's a major outage or a minor outage. Even though major status page providers like Atlassian and Incident.io have public status APIs (Cloudflare uses Atlassian), it takes more than just parsing them to determine what is "down" and at what granularity.

I run an outage detection service - and some of these issues, like parsing hundreds of - sometimes undocumented - status APIs, make for an interesting engineering problem.

iFred 25 minutes ago

huhtenberg 3 hours ago

https://finviz.com/map says Hi :)

dvh 10 hours ago

Maybe try using <wbr> for example Cloud<wbr>flare or mongo<wbr>db for more natural break on small screens.

1e1a 6 hours ago

Would be interesting if sites could be grouped based on what services they rely on, or just grouped based on which have correlated downtime.

zamadatix 5 hours ago

Correlated downtime and this is a place I wouldn't actually mind a guess from AI on whether their is a common underlying cause between some of the things. I say AI because I don't really think anyone is going to keep all of the possible common dependencies of different privately hosted systems up to date, but AI could at least take an initial guess + try to find if anyone else is posting root cause theories elsewhere at the time and link to those (and a guess is fine enough).

gegtik 4 hours ago

Ouch, Azure isn't even present

aetch 4 hours ago

They said major sites

chedoku 8 hours ago

Suggestion: The area of each rectangle should be proportional to the UPTIME capitalization

chedoku 8 hours ago

Maybe this is the idea, but how come github uptime is 100%!?

cednore 6 hours ago

Facebook, Twitter (X), Instagram is no longer a thing?

talonx 4 hours ago

They don't have straightforward status pages or APIs to detect outages - I think that's the reason they are not listed.

tristor an hour ago

Where does this draw data from? It's a similar visual concept to what we're doing at ThousandEyes within Internet Insights (see https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/) however we make it fairly clear how we are making these determinations. Our data comes from billions of daily pseudonymous metrics from within synthetic tests running across thousands of agents around the world.

If you're drawing the data from a public resource like downdetector or using the sites status pages, then you may not be reflecting reality, but it should be clear what the provenance of the data is.

xyst 10 hours ago

No love for mindgeek assets?

TeMPOraL 9 hours ago

Are those ever down?

fosron 8 hours ago

Playstation is in the list but not Xbox? Weird

Crunchified 9 hours ago

No Apple services listed? Where's iCloud?

b3lvedere 9 hours ago

Interesting.. Ms Teams blocks the entire url..

cleansy 10 hours ago

Yeah, highly inaccurate data. Shows Auth0 with an uptime of 0.6% over 24h. Smells like a slop project.

tcumulus 9 hours ago

Well if you count every minor service outage which maybe 0.1% of the users are non-critically affected by, you quickly get to 0.6%. So, this doesn't really tell you anything.

haktan 10 hours ago

But 55 of them is unknown (edit: fixed now)

progbits 10 hours ago

And github has 100% uptime while cloudflare has 20%. Yeah, right.

UrbanNorminal 10 hours ago

What a godsend this is! Thanks a lot! I hope the data is accurate! Keep improving it.

wakeless 10 hours ago

I'm assuming there's an optimisation in the source of this:

``` if(github) return false ```

chaidhat 10 hours ago

over half are unknown