[compumike]

Wow, “physically flooded with water somehow” and “load balancers” config propagation issue are so drastically different!

Good reminder that downtime happens for many wild reasons, and you may want to take 30 seconds and set up a free website / API monitor with Heii On-Call [1] because we would have alerted you to either of these issues if they affected your app.

Really, a simple HTTP probe provides tremendous monitoring power. I already was telling people that it covered issues at the DNS, TCP, SSL certificate, load balancer, framework, and application layers. Now I will have to add “datacenter flood” as well :P

Best wishes to everyone working on europe-west-9.

[1] https://heiioncall.com/ (I recently helped build our HTTP probe background infrastructure in Crystal)

[antonvs]

We just use a simple cloud function for that.