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StatusGator
Company blog · statusgator.com/blog · on HN as colinbartlettsystemsweb
StatusGator is the company blog at statusgator.com, writing about systems and web. Since 2016, 24 different Hacker News readers have linked it 58 times, most often “GitHub Is Down in EU”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (15) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A service that tracks outages for sites like GitHub, Cloudflare, AWS and Signal. Commenters mostly link its service pages, plus one blog post on GitHub incidents after the Microsoft acquisition.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 15 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Cloud status monitoring and outage alerts in an all-in-one status page. Get real-time status updates for 12,260+ cloud services with StatusGator.
Most-linked posts?
- /4 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2019-04-25
- /3 people · 10 mentions · first linked 2016-03-10
- GitHub Is Down in EU3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2019-03-12
- /blog/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2023-03-27
- /services/bitbucket2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2016-05-24
- Biggest Outages of Q2 20202 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-08-21
What Hacker News says?
I'm still seeing some sites not working - ironically they're down detectors: https://statusfield.com/status/cloudflare https://statusgator.com/services/cloudflare
Comment linking /services/cloudflare
on “Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues”Submitted Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region? as a story · 89 points
HN discussionHi Eric, Congratulations on your startup! There is at least one big tool that does exactly the same you wrote. It is called StatusGator https://statusgator.com There are at least 3 much smaller ones. Have you tried any of them? If yes, what's your point of difference? And how do you plan to market it? As I see the plans are cheap, means your LTV is low.
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on “Level 3 Global Outage”Submitted Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline as a story · 11 points
HN discussionI have tons of this kind of data due to my side project, StatusGator. For some services like the big cloud providers I have data going back 7 years. There indeed has been an uptick in AWS outages recently. You can see a bit of the history here: https://statusgator.com/services/amazon-web-services
Comment linking /services/amazon-web-services
on “Tell HN: AWS appears to be down again”Submitted Hetzner outage - UDP forwarding affected as a story · 10 points
HN discussionNot to take away from your project, but check out https://statusgator.com/
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on “Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020”Submitted Heavy Bluesky outage in the past day as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft?" - https://statusgator.com/blog/has-github-been-down-more-since... "... In the two years since the acquisition announcement, GitHub has reported a 41% increase in status page incidents. Furthermore, there has been a 97% increase in incident minutes, compared to the two years prior to the announcement..."
Comment linking /blog/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acquisition-by-microsoft/
on “Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft”Submitted Vast AI Down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionfour 9's uptime https://uptime.is/99.99 Daily: 8.6s Weekly: 1m 0.48s Monthly: 4m 21s Quarterly: 13m 2.4s Yearly: 52m 9.8s If you assume that "uptime" means all tools are available https://statusgator.com/services/github this appears to be 45 minutes in just one day Incident with Git Operations 30m Jan 14, 2025 9:01 AM Down Incident with Git Operations 10m Jan 14, 2025 8:51 AM Down Incident with Git Operations 5m Jan…
Comment linking /services/github
on “GitHub Git Operations Are Down”Submitted Webflow hosting is currently down as a story · 2 points
HN discussionStatusGator: https://statusgator.com Monitors the status pages of cloud services and sends you alerts in Slack, email, SMS, web hook, etc. You can even query the status of a service via a slash command in slack: /statuscheck github ...will tell you if GitHub is down.
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on “Ask HN: What are you working on and why is it awesome? Please include URL”Submitted What’s the least reliable feature of GitHub? I analyzed all the outage data as a story · 2 points
HN discussionhttps://statusgator.com StatusGator aggregates the public service status pages for all the cloud services you use. You can get automatic notifications when services go down and up, and you can query the service status from things like Slack. It makes about $1,000 month right now.
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on “Ask HN: Those making $500+/month on side projects in 2017 – Show and tell”Submitted Best PagerDuty Alternatives 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionVery occasionally: https://statusgator.com/services/apple (Side project of mine)
Comment linking /services/apple
on “Apple cloud services outage”Submitted Biggest Outages of Q2 2020 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionThe page takes 53 seconds to load for me. Initial shell loads quickly, but the content does not appear for almost a whole minute. (Chrome on OS X with all extensions off.) This doesn't help improve my confident in Bitbucket, which is already pretty low based on past uptime: https://statusgator.com/services/bitbucket
Comment linking /services/bitbucket
on “Bitbucket Pipelines Beta: continuous delivery inside Bitbucket”Submitted Show HN: Q2 2020 Outage Report as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's interesting to me to see all the services that depend on or integrate with GitHub in some way, as they all have problems at times like this. My side project https://statusgator.com shows currently a dozen different services all posting warnings or down notices on their status pages. It's mostly CI services and the like, all which break in some way when GitHub is down.
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on “GitHub is down”Submitted AWS EC2 Outage as a story · 2 points
HN discussionStatusGator: https://statusgator.com Monitors status pages of cloud services with optional notifications and creates a unified status page of your service dependencies. I wrote a blog post recently about how profitable (barely) it is: https://blog.statusgator.com/anatomy-of-a-profitable-side-pr...
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on “Ask HN: What are your profitable side projects?”Submitted Nest is down, status page is a lie as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf nobody minds a plug: My own product, StatusGator, which was launched here on HackerNews 10 year ago, notifies IT teams about outages before they are acknowledged by official status pages. - This OpenAI outage[1] we notified 4 minutes before they acknowledged. - The last AWS outage[2], we notified 28 minutes before they acknowledged - There is def an Azure outage[3] now yet they have still not updated their status…
Comment linking /services/azure
on “Ask HN: Is ChatGPT down?”Submitted Possible Apple Weather Outage as a story · 1 points
HN discussionVery cool site! I can see this fleshing out to be a very useful aggregator. I just submitted my bot StatusGator ( https://statusgator.com ) and I'm wondering more about what that $50 payment would get me if I paid for a quick review. Someone would actually sign up for my service and try it out then post a review on your site?
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on “Show HN: Botlist – An App Store for Bots”Submitted GitHub Is Down in EU as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIf you want to get alerted when it comes back up, or you wish you had been alerted when it went down, check out my project: https://StatusGator.com . StatusGator monitors status pages and sends notifications via email, Slack, and others. You can get alerted to status changes inside Slack and you can ask it the status of a service with a /statuscheck command.
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on “DNS Outage at DigitalOcean”Submitted 2025: The year of the global cloud outage as a story · 1 points
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