39 articles tagged "Devops"
The Statusfield MCP server connects Claude to thousands of vendor status pages, so you can ask Claude whether anything in your stack is down — right from Claude Code or Claude Desktop, without opening a browser.
Use the Statusfield REST API to check whether your critical dependencies are down before a deploy ships. Works in any CI/CD pipeline — GitHub Actions, shell scripts, or Node.js.
A practical step-by-step guide to meeting SOC 2 CC9.2 through automated vendor monitoring — covering vendor inventory, continuous evidence collection, incident documentation, and audit-ready compliance reports.
Going through SOC 2? Your auditor will ask how you monitor third-party vendors. Here's exactly what evidence satisfies CC9.2 and what falls short.
Statusfield now has a read-only REST API and a hosted MCP server, so you can check the status of thousands of vendor status pages from a script — or ask Claude directly. Available on the Hobby plan and up.
App deployments failing? Machines not starting? Learn how to check if Fly.io is down, what breaks during a Fly.io outage (Machines API, Fly Proxy, Postgres, DNS, deployments), and how to stay ahead of platform incidents.
New Relic not loading dashboards? Agents stopped reporting? Learn how to check if New Relic is down, what breaks (APM, alerts, distributed tracing, logs), and how to get instant alerts when your monitoring goes blind.
Sentry not ingesting errors? Alerts silent? Learn how to check if Sentry is down, what breaks during an outage (error ingestion, alerts, releases, crons, performance), and how to ensure you never miss a critical error.
Docker Hub outages break CI/CD pipelines and local builds instantly. Learn the symptoms, how to check Docker's status without relying on their page, and how to get alerted before your team notices.
Your users are not your monitoring system. Here's how to get detection coverage that surfaces third-party incidents in time to act — before the support tickets arrive.
Slow API responses are harder to diagnose than failures. The service looks up, but something is wrong. Here's a systematic approach to finding the bottleneck — in your code, your infrastructure, or theirs.
Full outages are easy to detect. Partial degradation — when a service is responding but not reliably — is harder and more common. Here's how to recognize the signals, and why catching them is harder than it looks.
Rate limits are one of the most common production failures caused by third-party APIs. Here's how to detect them early, implement proper backoff, and build systems that degrade gracefully when you hit the ceiling.
Third-party outages are tricky to postmortem because you didn't control the failure. Here's how to write a useful postmortem that builds resilience — even when the root cause was someone else's infrastructure.
Your app's reliability depends on services you don't control. Here's what effective third-party uptime monitoring actually requires — so you know about incidents before your users do.
Not every vendor publishes a public status page. Here's how to get visibility into the operational health of dependencies that tell you nothing — and why building that visibility yourself rarely scales.
When a vendor your app depends on goes down, what happens? If the answer is 'everything breaks,' this guide covers the patterns for building fallbacks that keep your app functional during third-party outages.
GitHub Actions outages can freeze your entire release cycle. Here's how to detect them immediately, keep work flowing, and build CI/CD pipelines resilient to upstream platform failures.
When API calls fail, the hardest question is: is it them or is it you? Here's a systematic approach to diagnosing third-party API failures fast, before you waste an hour debugging working code.
Stripe, Paddle, or Braintree going down doesn't have to mean lost revenue. Here's how to detect payment processor outages early, communicate clearly with customers, and minimize the damage.
npm install failing, ECONNREFUSED errors, or the registry timing out? Here's how to check if npm is down right now, what errors mean, how to install packages offline, and how to set up CI/CD retry logic so a registry blip doesn't break your builds.
The longer it takes to discover that Stripe or AWS is down, the more customers hit broken experiences. Here's how production engineering teams minimize the gap between when a vendor incident starts and when your team knows about it.
Too many alerts trains your team to ignore them. Too few means you find out about outages from support tickets. Here's how to configure third-party service monitoring alerts that are actually useful.
When Stripe or AWS goes down at 2 AM, your on-call engineer shouldn't be Googling what to do. A well-written third-party outage runbook turns a scramble into a 5-minute response. Here's how to build one.
When Stripe, GitHub, or AWS goes down, most teams find out from support tickets — not their own systems. Here's how to monitor third-party service outages and get the right signal to the right person before your users do.
A 99.9% SLA sounds solid. It allows 8.7 hours of downtime per year, and that downtime could happen all at once on your worst day. Here's how to track actual reliability rather than contractual promises.
Your servers are healthy. Your database is responding. Your own metrics look clean. But your users are getting errors. The culprit is almost always a silent failure upstream. Here's what to look for.
Redis connections timing out, commands hanging, or Redis Cloud unreachable? Learn how to check if Redis is down right now, what causes outages, and how to protect your application when Redis fails.
GitLab CI/CD failing, merge requests not loading, or pipelines stuck? Learn how to check if GitLab is down right now and what to do when GitLab.com has an outage.
Droplets unreachable, Kubernetes clusters failing, or the DigitalOcean control panel returning errors? Learn how to check if DigitalOcean is down right now and what to do during a cloud provider outage.
CircleCI builds not starting, pipelines queued indefinitely, or CI jobs failing with infrastructure errors? Learn how to check if CircleCI is down right now and what to do to keep shipping during an outage.
Container pulls failing? Quay.io not responding? Learn how to check Red Hat Quay.io status in real time, what components can fail, and how to get instant alerts when the registry goes down.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Check GitHub status live — is Actions, the API, or GitHub Pages down? Real-time incident tracking plus instant alerts so your team knows before deploys fail.
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.
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.
