Status page for Balanced
Infrastructure
status page
SHOW HN2012
60points
15comments
#391of 1,677 in 2012
Top 24%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
5 positive, 6 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 1 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.
Idea: 2 for, 0 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Beautiful, best status page seen from a company
From 4 comments
This is an awesome status page. Honestly the best I have seen from any company.
dsl on HNnice :)
kategleason on HNthis. this is what a status page should be.
jjb123 on HNThis is very good! I work for a payments service provider in India. And at our company, we have something similar but not so detailed as this. Ours is built on top of Pingdom -…
pherk on HN
Modeled on Heroku's status page
From 1 comment
Definitely. We started with Heroku's status page as the golden standard and made it our own while looking at other examples along the way.
zende on HN
Objections
Markup accessibility could be better
From 1 comment
This is beautiful, but the pendulum has swung too far the other way when it comes to the markup. Once we used HTML TABLEs to express everything, and accessibility was destroyed…
buro9 on HN
Grey default colour is wrong when nothing failed
From 1 comment
I love the 3 big icons/images for status. That's what people want to see when they first come to the page.I also love the columns for twitter comments paired with yellow<->red…
brntbeer on HN
Requests
Open source the status page code
From 1 comment
This is awesome. I wonder if there any free open source projects that would let developers implement this sort of front-end for their own services.
wlue on HN
Build on Pingdom API
From 1 comment
It'd be cool to see something like this built on top of the Pingdom API. https://www.pingdom.com/services/api-documentation-rest/#ResourceSummary.outage
rgarcia on HN
Questions
How uptime percentage is calculated from 500 errors
From 2 comments
> number of 500s (and slow requests) / non-500s? Shouldn't it be (# of 500s)/(# of 500s + # non-500s)? I assume of course, 500 is the HTTP status codes Other than that, brilliant…
chewxy on HNHi Chwexy, That's actually how it's calculated :) I think mjallday had a typo. His anti procrastination settings are turned on so he can't make an edit to his comment :P Happy to…
mahmoudimus on HN
Alternatives named
Heroku status page
From 1 comment
Nice. For those who don't already know, heroku's is similar. https://status.heroku.com/ http://blog.heroku.com/archives/2012/8/6/design_of_the_status_site/
fuzzythinker on HN
Pingdom
From 2 comments
It'd be cool to see something like this built on top of the Pingdom API. https://www.pingdom.com/services/api-documentation-rest/#ResourceSummary.outage
rgarcia on HNThis is very good! I work for a payments service provider in India. And at our company, we have something similar but not so detailed as this. Ours is built on top of Pingdom -…
pherk on HN