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.

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If you've ever worked in DevOps, platform engineering, or software development, you know the drill. Everything's running smoothly - until it's not.

That's exactly what happened to my team one day.

The Deployment That Started It All

It was a normal weekday morning back in 2022. Sprint deadline coming up. Team shipping fast. We merged code, CI/CD pipeline kicked off - everything on track.

Then - it all came crashing down.

• Builds failed.
• Tests stalled.
• The deployment? DOA.

Panic mode kicked in:

• Checked recent commits - nothing obvious.
• Re-ran the pipeline - same issue.
• Rolled back - still broken.

Hours wasted.

Then someone finally said: "Hey... could this be AWS?"

Sure enough - EC2 was down.

Our entire CI/CD process relied on EC2 instances. With them out, we were flying blind.

The Real Cost of Downtime

Let's face it - when EC2 goes down, there's no quick fix. You're not spinning up new infra in five minutes.

Maybe you have a fallback strategy. Maybe you don't. Either way, knowing what's actually broken is half the battle.

By the time we figured it out:

• Hours of dev time lost
• Stakeholder frustration
• And we still had to explain why we didn't catch it earlier

Customers don't care why your product is down - they just know it's broken, and it affects them.

And we didn't have a good answer.

The Solution: I Built What I Wish I Had

After getting burned too many times, I built Statusfield - a simple but powerful way to monitor cloud service outages before they impact your team.

Here's how it works:

• Tracks 290+ cloud services and adding more (AWS, GitHub, Stripe, Vercel, and more)
• Monitors specific sub-services (like AWS EC2, Stripe API, GitHub Actions)
• Sends instant alerts via Slack, Email (more integrations coming soon)

No more status page hunting. No more wasted debugging time. Just instant awareness when things go sideways.

It's lightweight, fast, and built by developers - for developers.

The Bottom Line: Downtime Is Inevitable - Being Caught Off Guard Isn't

If your SaaS, startup, or DevOps team relies on cloud services (and whose doesn't?), you deserve to know when something breaks.

Because downtime is inevitable - but being blindsided isn't.

The next time AWS has an outage, GitHub Actions goes down, or Stripe starts having payment issues, you'll know immediately. Not hours later when your users start complaining.

Your team deserves better than playing detective with broken deployments.

Ready to Stop Getting Blindsided?

• Get instant alerts when your critical services go down
• Monitor 290+ services including AWS, GitHub, Stripe, Vercel, and more
• Slack and email notifications

Start monitoring your services →

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Have your own "everything is broken but we don't know why" story? Tweet us @statusfield - we'd love to hear it (and help prevent the next one).