Unreliable Status Pages

The cluster discusses criticisms of status pages for services like AWS, Slack, and others, highlighting how they often fail to update during outages, show false greens, or go down themselves.

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maschultz Jun 30, 2023 View on HN

Maybe the status page is down - it needs a status page to tell us if the status page is down

XCSme Sep 28, 2021 View on HN

What's the point of status pages if they never show the actual status of the service?

vb-8448 Mar 5, 2024 View on HN

Seems like even the status page doesn't work ... i'd say typical for this type of situations :D :D :D

isaachinman Feb 28, 2025 View on HN

Interesting that they do not even have a status page.

KomoD Jan 12, 2024 View on HN

Why even have a status page if it's not updated... I'd at least expect some kind of automated health check failing and updating the page.

sidcool Sep 15, 2025 View on HN

They don't have a status page?

cheerioty Nov 1, 2017 View on HN

That's why there's StatusPage.io :)

ochronus Jul 27, 2023 View on HN

Yes. It's really a shame how useless their status page usually is - it's still all green at the moment.

golergka May 6, 2022 View on HN

Wait, is it an honest status page? Not only red, but with timely updates at the top, too?

tesrx Apr 10, 2022 View on HN

Ironic how their "Statuspage" product is having issues.