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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Nice one! This looks like a lot of work for stuff that has low visibility (or, rather, which is only visible when things go wrong and the work is not ready yet), so it's important to say this: we ...
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Incident update and uptime reporting
bug status-completed (changed to Stack Exchange Network Health due to length limit)
Header of the dashboard has a typo:
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Incident update and uptime reporting
bugstatus-completed
On the StackStatus site, when hovering over each particular day, a tooltip appears that shows: the date, a status icon, and status text. But the icon doesn't seem to match with ...
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What caused the outage on October 3, and why was Stack Overflow unaffected?
On Thursday, October 3rd, at around 14:30 UTC, the majority of the SE network - with the exception of Stack Overflow - had an unplanned service disruption. This disruption was not due to any active ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
While this is no doubt a blessed change, I do have one concern at the moment: would it automatically update with every small incident e.g. short outage after publishing code changes? Or is there some ...
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What happened to old postmortems on stackstatus.net?
The old Stack Status page was hosted on Tumblr so as long as that account still exists, you can still access the complete archive of stuff that was originally posted there: https://stackstatus.tumblr....
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What happened to old postmortems on stackstatus.net?
Background
The status page is hosted independently of our network so that, when our entire infrastructure is down, you can still see the status. The original choice of using Tumblr was indeed an "...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Well, let's hope we don't have to visit it too often ... but it looks nice indeed! And responsive too, except for a minor bug on the history page. The forward button is not displayed; this screenshot ...
GlorfindelMod
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Cannot see image on stackstatus.net in environments where Tumblr is blocked
Our status blog is currently hosted on Tumblr and the image you reference is the avatar for our profile on Tumblr. That avatar is always hosted by Tumblr (by uploading an image there) and cannot have ...
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
When you say "updated automatically," do you mean that the site will detect instability or outages and proactively update the status, or that it will be automatically updated when an ...
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Is there also going to be manual feedback given by staff when outages occur or should we expect all messages on https://www.stackstatus.net/ to be automated?
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The StackStatus website does not resolve without a preceding "www" in the URL
While we won't be able to immediately address the behavior of the URL without www. (ref: Josh's comment), I have created a work item internally to ensure that all of our outward-facing links to the ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Incident update and uptime reporting
feature-request status-completed
To maintain consistency, all notifications should display the same message if there are no incidents for that month. Currently, for some of the months the ...
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Incident update and uptime reporting
feature-request status-completed
Disable the clickable event, if there is no pagination.
As per the screenshot, there is no next page for November month, in this case, don't show the hand cursor and ...
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
Removing friction in reporting is always a good idea, particularly if it allows manual updates to long-running incidents but handles most updates automatically.
The current incident shows a null ...
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What is the status of stackstatus.net?
We definitely are still aware of it, but we tend to forget about it when we have maintenance and/or are in the middle of an outage.
Most of us are already logged into twitter and have @StackStatus ...
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Is stackstatus.com related to stackstatus.net?
No, it's not. It seems to be something similar to stackstatus.net, but then for customers of a hosting company called "20i". I never heard of them before, but with a simple Google search I ...
GlorfindelMod
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Change the HTTP status blog links to HTTPS
As I pointed out in this comment, all of the offline/maintenance pages have been updated as of today to point to https://www.stackstatus.net.
Short of manually taking the site offline, I can't ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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stackstatus.net SSL_ERROR_BAD_CERT_DOMAIN
Tumblr does not support SSL certificates on custom domains:
You're currently using a custom domain name ("stackstatus.net"). That's cool, but we're not currently able to serve custom domains over ...
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What is the status of stackstatus.net?
2022 Update:
As described at "Improvements to site status and incident communication" the site will be updated automatically as of June 8th. The incoming automatic site can already be viewed ...
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Change status blog address to https://www.stackstatus.net/ in the offline for maintenance page
The link is now fixed.
app offline oh no!?!
what's the network status now?
oh nice! link works now!
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How are maintenance issues logged on stackstatus.net?
To address "why don't I see an event from June on the home page?"
The incident history page is configured to show a quarter at a time. So if you click this left arrow at the top:
You'll end ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Improvements to site status and incident communication
There are currently four "services" listed on the status page: The SE Network, the API, SE.com, and Teams.
What about other services that SE runs, such as data.SE, or chat.SE? Those are ...
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Stack Overflow's status page (stackstatus.net) does not mention a recent planned maintenance
There are two issues at play here:
When the maintenance incident was created, some piece of information was missing that prevented it from being pulled into the status page.
We are working with the ...
Aaron BertrandStaff
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The StackStatus website does not resolve without a preceding "www" in the URL
FYI: https://www.isstackoverflowdownforeveryoneorjustme.com works with and without HTTPS, with and without "www."
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Incident update and uptime reporting
supportstatus-completed
The Stack Exchange Network Health graphs don't have their y-axis labelled (and also not the x-axis but that is obviously datetime). It's entirely unclear to me what is being ...
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There is a full stop missing in the stackstatus header
The full stop on stackstatus.net has been added
Aaron BertrandStaff
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Stack status incorrect during yesterday’s maintenance/outage
Some updates have recently been made around incident and uptime reporting. The details have been shared in a separate Meta post which you can read here.
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Remove link to abandoned Stack Status blog from read-only mode banner
stackstatus.net is used for communicating planned maintenance that we expect will cause an outage (which we haven't had any of in a while, as you noted) and posting of public postmortems (you can ...
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Remove link to abandoned Stack Status blog from read-only mode banner
The problems from 4 years ago have been addressed at some point since. The banner has a working link to www.stackstatus.net, and that site did contain information about last nights planned ...
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