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Fan's can't get access to @taylorswift13 tickets in Europe because a third-party that @Ticketmaster relies on couldn't perform. Treat third-parties like an extension of your software and your team. Monitor it. apnews.com/article/taylor…

Who monitors the monitors? Well, we do! @datadoghq, @newrelic, and 68 other popular public IaaS, SaaS, and API products like @awscloud, @stripe, @auth0, @Cloudflare, and more. metrist.io

There is a theme emerging at @Monitorama 2023: Shift-left telemetry to tame cost and data complexity. #monitorama #o11y #devops

Is it smart to run in AWS us-east-1? We asked Reddit why so many companies do metrist.io/blog/why-so-ma… #sre #devops #cloud

After the recent AWS us-east-1 outage, we asked r/aws why so many companies use the region rather than one of the other four in the US. Here is what they had to say: reddit.com/r/aws/comments… #sre #devops #cloud #o11y #reliability

Who will be at @Monitorama? #sre #devops #o11y

@GergelyOrosz This is why you need to use third party services like @Metrist_io - trusting a company to be truthful about their own uptime when SLA penalties are on the line is like asking robber to guard your gold

@rpetre @AWS_Snarkitect Like what @zapier does?

@AWS_Snarkitect I very much like status pages that include automatically collected metrics. As a client of the service, I usually visit the status page to confirm if it's a problem specific to me or it's a more global issue. The "we're handling the situation" part actually says very little.

If your takeaway from this is to fully automate your status pages, please know there's about 20 years of us learning the hard way that it's a bad idea. Keeping a human in the loop to contextualize and confirm reports of behavior is more important than a saving a few minutes.

@DavidLWillson @AWS_Snarkitect Simply acknowledging quickly that *something* may be abnormal would go a long way.

@AWS_Snarkitect Your status page could have more than one lights, with some controlled by bot, and some controlled by human.

@AWS_Snarkitect We agree that status pages should NOT be automated! We also believe that developers need & deserve a similar level of visibility into their third-party cloud dependencies as they have into their own code & internal dependencies. thenewstack.io/cloud-dependen…

@anuraggoel @googlecloud @render Metrist detects functional issues with 70 different third-party cloud dependencies within minutes, offering full details of what is happening, where. No waiting 4 hours for confirmation! metrist.io

It took @googlecloud FOUR hours to post a critical incident on their status page just now. And no GCP, the incident did NOT begin at 11:02 PT. It began at 7:30 AM PT because @render engineers got paged well before yours did.

Yesterday, AWS had a major outage in us-east-1. They updated their status page 16 minutes after the first reports of problems surfaced. If you don't have visibility into the cloud products your app relies on, your response is slower than it needs to be, you don't have the details needed to make decisions, & your teams are scrambling to react. Metrist solves this problem by creating real-time visibility into 70 popular cloud infra, API, and SaaS dependencies. Metrist customers get outage details on average 29 minutes faster than status pages update, with the reporting necessary to hold their vendors accountable. #sre #devops #reliabilityengineering #uptime

No one is surprised when we say that status pages updates are significantly delayed, but now we have the data to prove it. #sre #devops #statuspage metrist.io/blog/the-data-…

Are you missing the big picture that Metrics, Logs, and Traces can offer? Check out this great post by @FisherDanyel of @honeycombio, over on @thenewstack. thenewstack.io/how-the-3-pill… #o11y #monitoring #sre #devops

Counting vendor status page updates is _NOT_ a reliable way to know if a service was actually healthy or not. According to our data, there are more unreported outages than there are reported outages. The only way to know status is with fucntional testing statusgator.com/blog/is-north-…

Third-party API governance is just one of the trends that @Gartner_inc has identified in the API Management space, and we couldn't be more thrilled to hear it! Check out this great write-up by @enewc thenewstack.io/api-management…

Do SLOs Matter In a Downturn?🤔 Listen to this brilliant panel by a few great experts from SLOconf 2023! With host @alexwilliams of @thenewstack, @ahidalgosre, @lizthegrey of @honeycombio, Frances Zhao-Perez and @Jmartens of @Metrist_io 📺hubs.la/Q01SB4Yz0

This week's #DevToolsDigest includes news and resources from @Metrist_io @honeycombio @splunk @ellenchisa and more. devtoolsdigest.com

I had a great time recording the latest episode of @software_daily with @leeatchison and I'd love for you to check it out! softwareengineeringdaily.com/2023/05/30/obs… #sre #devops #observability

In this article, "cloud dependencies" are the APIs and other dev tools we all use to build software. Great piece by @Jmartens thenewstack.io/cloud-dependen…