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by EnFinlay 2613 days ago
I want status pages to show traffic to the status page itself over the last 24 hours (or some time period). A sudden uptick in traffic but green across the board would indicate that there is an issue, but they just haven't updated the page yet.
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Yes! I have yet to convince anyplace I've been working to do this, but I do make increases in traffic volume to status pages generate non-critical alerts. Has caught out a few problems much earlier than they otherwise would have been discovered.
Sounds like an interesting way to make developers (or ops) life hell. Just point a traffic cannon at the status page and bingo bango non-critical page.