Design of the Heroku Status Site

http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/8/6/design_of_the_status_site/

by aaronbrethorst • 14 years ago

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chrisacky• 14 years ago

I've actually previously bookmarked their site status as being an example of a good transparent "status" page.

Here are a few others that I like. (Incidentally, AWS page isn't on the list. I'm a massive advocate of AWS, but they flat out lie for most of their incidents. http://status.aws.amazon.com/ )

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CloudFlare - https://www.cloudflare.com/system-status

Desk/Assistly - http://www.desk.com/trust

ZenDesk - http://www.zendesk.com/support/system-status

37Signals - http://status.37signals.com/

Heroku - https://status.heroku.com/ (In case you skipped the article)

If you want a public status page, a company called Nimsoft, (I have no affiliation with them), provide status pages as a service.

They produce pages like this one : http://status.automattic.com/

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Also, if anyone is interested in how Heroku did the cool connect lines between events on the timeline, and then the actual description, there is a working proof of concept here.

http://jsfiddle.net/Xe3uL/33/

bradsmithinc• 14 years ago

This is a beautiful page, however I wish they would have spent the time, energy and money improving their reliability. I would be happier with a plain text status page, and a service that can survice a partial amazon outage.

captn3m0• 14 years ago

For someone interested in the backend, twilio opensourced their status page. It runs using Google App Engine, so it can be comfortably running away from your own architecture.

Demo: http://status.twilio.com/

Project Site: http://www.stashboard.org/

Source: http://www.github.com/twilio/stashboard

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The already mentioned nimsoft seems to be a highly used service. It is currently used by twitter, google, wikipedia, mozilla, amazon, apple mobileme.

Design of the Heroku Status Site

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