Mikey!

In order to get away from #UptimeKuma, I made a status page for @ServerNorth operations, using #Gatus. Curious what y’all think, given the absolute minority of my customers actually being here and following me.

https://status.servernorth.net/

(And I doubt I can materially improve accessibility, but the developer seems open to input.)

AS32881 Overall Status at a Glance

Gatus is an advanced automated status page that lets you monitor your applications and configure alerts to notify you if there's an issue

Apr 5 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threadJean-François Mezei2d ago
@mWare shocking ! This type of geek porn must have a « I am over 18 » button before displaying the contents 😀
Show threadJean-François Mezei2d ago
@mWare what are access canaries? Pinging a semi random nunber of customer ip adresses?
Show threadJean-François Mezei2d ago
@mWare I didn’t see a list of transit providers and status of link to them. Shouldn’t it be in there ?
Show threadMikey!2d ago
@jfmezei this is reachability testing; the performance of individual transit links would be a) difficult to test in part, b) less relevant than AS32881's reachability, and c) dynamic and hard to gauge the value of - how do you remotely test the quality of ONE link with asymmetric routing at play? (You don't / not very useful)
Show threadJean-François Mezei2d ago
@mWare but from within, you can test reacheability of each transit provider, the challenge would be to provide that info to the Dutch host. Testing of your network from the outside is very useful though.
Show threadMikey!2d ago

@jfmezei If you understand transit links, and you're on-net, you'd be able to figure these things out on your own - in a better way.

Remember, this is meant to be a dashboard overview, not a comprehensive view into all of our metrics. During a disruption, 80% of the support calls are resolved with "it's us, not you", and this'll let customers see that.

I still don't understand why the RTTs are so high... the VPS is like 85ms away from our machines, but reporting 100ms+ - but it's the relative trend, not absolute number that matters here, so I'm not terribly botherd by it.

Show threadJean-François Mezei2d ago
@mWare initially thought the status page was hosted in-house from software that came from Eurooe. Now I know the server is in Amsterdam so obviously it has literally different point of view.
Show threadMikey!2d ago
@jfmezei Hence the description at the top of the page!
Show threadMikey!2d ago
@jfmezei exactly, tho chosen to be geographically and infrastructurally-differentiated than random.