Status pages
2 posts tagged with Status pages.
Why your status page shows green when the service is broken
You're staring at error 503s. You open the vendor's status page. All systems operational. You aren't crazy and the page isn't lying — it's lagging, and the lag is structural. Here's the anatomy of the gap, and what to look at instead.
May 12, 2026·7 min
Status page indicators decoded: what 'minor', 'major', and 'maintenance' actually mean
Every public status page reports the same five-state vocabulary: operational, minor, major, critical, maintenance. Vendors use them differently. Here's what each label is actually trying to tell you — and the edge cases where the label lies.
May 12, 2026·7 min