[pixl97]

It doesn't matter if each individual detects the outage because they'll start blame at the local source and move further up the tree rather than assign blame to a full system failure right off the bat. 99.9% of the time it's going to be a local failure affecting the individual.

Also, most alerting systems like check multiple times before declaring a public outage, many times 2 to 3 failures some seconds apart are needed.

[voidfunc]

To add onto this, my experience is you never want a fully automated status page for another two reasons:

1. External engineers will start to automate recovery/mitigation processes around your status page if it has real time status.

2. You now need to bug test your status page thoroughly because of #1. It basically becomes an actual API.

[10000truths]

That sounds like a problem for the external engineers, not for GitLab.

[pixl97]

Users make their problems yours.