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Insights on service monitoring, DevOps best practices, and product updates from the Statusfield team.

Outages

Shopify Outage — June 3, 2026: The Full Timeline

A timeline of Shopify's June 3, 2026 outage — storefronts, checkout, admin and POS threw errors for nearly two hours; merchants heard it from customers first.

·9 min read
Outages

Discord Major Outage — March 25-28, 2026: What Happened and Why It Matters

Discord suffered back-to-back major outages between March 25-28, 2026, taking down voice channels, messaging, and the API for hundreds of millions of users. Here's the full incident timeline and what it means for teams that depend on Discord.

·5 min read
Outages

GitHub Actions Down Three Times in One Day — March 5, 2026

GitHub Actions went down three separate times on March 5, 2026 — the 8th incident in just 5 days of March. CI/CD pipelines, Pages, and Webhooks were all affected. Here's the full picture.

·4 min read
Outages

Cloudflare WAF Incident — March 3, 2026: Challenge Actions Broken Globally

Cloudflare's WAF Challenge actions were broken globally for ~89 minutes today, affecting any site using Managed Challenge, JS Challenge, or I'm Under Attack mode. Here's what happened and what it means for your security setup.

·4 min read
Outages

GitHub Outage — March 3, 2026: What Went Down and Why It Matters

GitHub experienced a major outage today affecting API requests, pull requests, issues, webhooks, Codespaces, Git operations, Actions, and Copilot — all at once. Here's what happened and what it reveals about hidden infrastructure risk.

·4 min read
Outages

AWS CloudFront Outage — March 2, 2026

Amazon CloudFront, AWS Global Accelerator, Cloud WAN, and Route 53 are experiencing partial outages right now. Here is what is affected, why it matters, and what to do.

·3 min read
Outages

GitHub Partial Outage Today — Pull Requests Affected (March 2, 2026)

GitHub is experiencing a partial outage affecting Pull Requests right now. Here is what is happening, what is affected, and how to keep your team moving while it is down.

·3 min read
Engineering

How to Check if a Website Is Down (For Everyone or Just You)

Website not loading? Learn 6 fast ways to check if a site is down for everyone or just you — plus how to get automatic alerts so you're never the last to know.

·7 min read
Engineering

How to Monitor Third-Party APIs and SaaS Dependencies (Developer Guide)

Every app depends on third-party APIs. Here is how to monitor them properly — with alerts, runbooks, and the tools that actually work — so outages stop surprising your team.

·8 min read
Product

Monitor Your Own APIs and Internal Services with Statusfield

You already monitor AWS and Stripe — but what about your own APIs? Learn how Statusfield custom URL monitoring lets you add any HTTPS endpoint and get alerts when it goes down.

·5 min read
Product

Monitor Your Own Endpoints Alongside Your Dependencies

Statusfield now lets you add your app's health check URLs and internal API endpoints to the same dashboard where you track AWS, GitHub, and Stripe. One place for everything your team depends on.

·4 min read
Insights

Why Subscribing to Individual Status Pages Doesn't Scale

You can subscribe to GitHub's status page. And AWS's. And Stripe's. But when you depend on 20+ services, individual subscriptions become a mess. Here's why teams are switching to centralized status monitoring.

·6 min read
Company

Welcome to the Statusfield Blog

Introducing our new blog with product updates, technical guides, and industry insights about service monitoring and reliability.

·2 min read
Insights

The Hidden Dependency That Took Down Half the Internet Today

When Cloudflare went down for 3.5 hours, services like ChatGPT, Auth0, and SendGrid all went offline - even though none of them run on Cloudflare. Here's why hidden dependencies are your biggest risk.

·5 min read
Product

Never Miss a Service Disruption Again: How I Learned the Hard Way

One unexpected AWS EC2 outage froze our entire pipeline. Hours lost. Deadlines missed. That's when I knew I had to build something better - Statusfield.

·3 min read

Is it down? Service status guides

How to check the live status of the services your business depends on.