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Learning from Facebook: Keep your Status Page Separately from your Infrastructure

Yesterday April 8th 2021 at around 22:00 UTC, Facebook experienced a major outage where Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp web and Instagram were all down and unavailable. The last update was reported 3 hours later resolving the incident, so even though the status page doesn’t state the duration of the incident, we can assume it was still affecting some users that long.

How to: Pingdom super powered status page

Pingdom is one of the most used website monitoring tools, with almost 15 years in the business. It excels at providing simple and reliable synthetics as well as real user monitoring. This monitoring tool provides a simple public status page, but as you might have noticed it’s quite limited. It only serves as a display of your uptime and response time history, not much more than that.

Pingdom Powered Status Page

Pingdom is one of the most used website monitoring tools, with almost 15 years in the business. It excels at providing simple and reliable synthetics as well as real user monitoring. This monitoring tool provides a simple public status page, but as you might have noticed it’s quite limited. It only serves as a display of your uptime and response time history, not much more than that.

Statuspal vs Atlassian Statuspage

So you’re getting flooded by customer’s emails and phone calls whenever an incident arises in your business? It’s time to setup your very own status page! You might be thinking that there are so many options and you’ve probably heard of Atlassian’s Statuspage so now you want to make sure you pick the best status page provider. Well, you’re in the right place! Here are 5 reasons why you should pick Statuspal over Atlassian’s Statuspage.

Statuspal as Alternative to AdminLabs

It’s always sad to see products shut down, even if they are our competitors, so it’s the case of AdminLabs, as some new customers have brought to our attention. So we want to let any previous users of AdminLabs know, you’re welcome here at Statuspal, let us help you have a smooth transition to the only hosted status pages provider as feature rich, that provides native monitoring features right within your status page dashboard.