It shows I've visited twice already, from different countries, IPs and browsers. I don't think this works. This open source one does work between incognito and normal session: https://fingerprintjs.github.io/fingerprintjs/
There are no truly automated status pages. It's an impossible problem. I mean that seriously. At scale you're collecting 100s of thousands (or mms) of metrics/spans/logs across 10s or 100s of loosely coupled systems. Building a system that can accurately analyze these and assess what the status page should say, in real time, without human intervention, is just not possible with current technology.
Even just the basic question of "are we down or is our monitoring system just having issues" requires a human. And it's never "are we down", because these are distributed systems we're talking about.
If service X goes down entirely, does that warrant a status page update? Yes? Turns out system X is just running ML jobs in the background and has no customer impact.
If service Z's p95 response latency jumps from 10ms to 1500ms for 5 minutes, 500s spike at the same time, but overall 200s rate is around 98%, are we down? is that a status page update? Is that 1 bad actor trying to cause issues? Is that indicative of 2,000 customers experiencing an outage and the other 98,000 operating normally? Is that a bad rack switch that's causing a few random 500s across the whole customer base and the service will reject that node and auto-recover in a moment?
I can answer that - once the lawyers take interest in your SLAs, you need to check with them if this is really an incident. Otherwise, you might lose some contract money and nobody wants that.
Unrelated, they have a few services that rely on GCP which is down. Still, I imagine the people working on the maintenance for Tokyo turned white during that job worried it was caused by them...
With my 49" I use OBS + Mouse follow script + OBS preview window on laptop screen and share my entire laptop screen. That way I know the window size is suitable for others viewing from their laptops and the preview follows my mouse and you can tweak zoom levels and mouse boundaries on the fly. Also the OBS preview window opens on launch, without opening the main OBS window. So you never have to see/interact with the main OBS window/application again so it really feels standalone which is great.
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