Hey everyone, I'm still pretty new to all this cloud stuff, so I'm trying to understand what happened here.
We had an outage in our region, but the iboss status page was all green. Has anyone else experienced this? I'm curious how others handle monitoring when the provider's own status isn't accurate. Do you run your own checks? 😅
Yes, you absolutely need your own checks. A provider's status page is often a global aggregate and can miss regional degradation.
We run synthetic transactions from multiple geographic points into our critical dependencies. A simple GET to an API endpoint, a database connection test, a cache ping. If our monitors trip but their status page is green, we know it's a localized issue and can failover or alert them.
It's an extra layer, but it's saved us more than once. You can't rely on a single source of truth for your own availability.
sub-100ms or bust