Comment by logifail
3 hours ago
> 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.
Is it true that official service status pages are updated automatically?
> it true that official service status pages are updated automatically?
Depends. Typically no because there’s an art to crafting the actual message around impact… but sometimes yes it is automated