StatusGator Blog
statusgator.com · Company blog · on HN since 2016
StatusGator, a service that monitors third-party status pages, writes about outages at GitHub, AWS, Hetzner and other providers.
What HN saysHN commenters recommend StatusGator for outage alerts, such as Slack notifications when GitHub is down, and mention it as an existing competitor to new status-monitoring tools.
24HN people shared it
15linked it in comments
22stories submitted
137story points
3 months agolast shared
2016people per year2026
Most-shared posts
- 1Homepage7 people · first shared 2016
- 2GitHub Is Down in EU3 people · 1 points · first shared 2019 · 1 comments on HN
- 3Show HN: Q2 2020 Outage Report2 people · 4 points · first shared 2020 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Bitbucket2 people · first shared 2016
- 5Has github been down more since its acquisition by microsoft2 people · first shared 2023
- 6Is Northern Virginia still the least reliable AWS region?1 people · 89 points · first shared 2025 · 60 comments on HN
- 7Scrapers Take Down GitHub: December 11 Outage Timeline1 people · 11 points · first shared 2025 · 7 comments on HN
- 8Hetzner outage - UDP forwarding affected1 people · 10 points · first shared 2026 · 7 comments on HN
- 9Vast AI Down1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 10AWS EC2 Outage1 people · 2 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 11Best PagerDuty Alternatives 20201 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
- 12Heavy Bluesky outage in the past day1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · 1 comments on HN
- 13What’s the least reliable feature of GitHub? I analyzed all the outage data1 people · 2 points · first shared 2023 · discussion on HN
- 14Webflow hosting is currently down1 people · 2 points · first shared 2026 · discussion on HN
- 15Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft?1 people · 1 points · first shared 2021 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
zimbatm · 2020-11-02
I started building a Slack bot just to get notified when GitHub is down. And then found out that it already exists: https://statusgator.com/
This saves me the recurring "is GitHub working for you" type of discussion. Or just wasting time trying to use GitHub when it's not fully operational.
100% recommended.
colinbartlett · 2017-10-16
I have a few revenue-generating side projects, most notably StatusGator[1] which monitors status pages.
But the problem I always have with selling side projects is that they are worth a lot more to me in emotional value than they are actually worth monetarily. I've put a lot of heart and soul into StatusGator, not to mention a lot of time, and selling it for what it's worth based on monthly revenue ($1k/month) wouldn't nearly cover that emotional value. And so I hang on to it.
1. https://statusgator.com
gkze · 2021-12-21
We use https://statusgator.com with great success
david1542 · 2024-06-12
Interesting. What's the difference from https://statusgator.com/ ?
maxshash · 2020-08-31
Hi Eric,
Congratulations on your startup!
There is at least one big tool that does exactly the same you wrote. It is called StatusGator https://statusgator.com
There are at least 3 much smaller ones.
Have you tried any of them?
If yes, what's your point of difference?
And how do you plan to market it? As I see the plans are cheap, means your LTV is low.
dubcanada · 2020-07-18
Not to take away from your project, but check out https://statusgator.com/
kureikain · 2019-04-25
https://statusgator.com/ does that.
ffsm8 · 2026-06-06
From his profile
https://statusgator.com/features/early-warning-signals
This info page only references thousands per minute. Over a day that could go over millions. And while not explicitly stated, I think the source is social media. Eg Twitter and similar.
kjfarm · 2026-02-03
Seems like the outage started a 4PM UTC https://statusgator.com/services/signal
CrzyLngPwd · 2026-01-28
Status says everything is fine, but the site is inaccessible for me, yet downdetector and statusgator say there are issues.
https://statusgator.com/services/bitbucket
https://downdetector.co.uk/status/bitbucket/
ndsipa_pomu · 2025-11-18
I'm still seeing some sites not working - ironically they're down detectors:
https://statusfield.com/status/cloudflare https://statusgator.com/services/cloudflare
slig · 2025-11-04
They lie. Meta ad deliver has been completely fucked for about two months, and they rarely update their status page [1]. When they do, they update with "medium disruptions" hours late and then with "resolved" hours before actually solving. I could understand the "resolved" before because of "web scale" and deploying slowly.
This third partt status page reflects the issues much better [2].
[1]: https://metastatus.com/ads-manager [2]: https://statusgator.com/services/meta
Over2Chars · 2025-01-14
four 9's uptime https://uptime.is/99.99
Daily: 8.6s
Weekly: 1m 0.48s
Monthly: 4m 21s
Quarterly: 13m 2.4s
Yearly: 52m 9.8s
If you assume that "uptime" means all tools are available
https://statusgator.com/services/github
this appears to be 45 minutes in just one day
Incident with Git Operations 30m Jan 14, 2025 9:01 AM Down
Incident with Git Operations 10m Jan 14, 2025 8:51 AM Down
Incident with Git Operations 5m Jan 14, 2025 8:46 AM Down
Not much margin to hit four 9's left for the rest of the year.
belter · 2023-11-20
"Has GitHub Been Down More Since Its Acquisition by Microsoft?" - https://statusgator.com/blog/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acqui…
"... In the two years since the acquisition announcement, GitHub has reported a 41% increase in status page incidents. Furthermore, there has been a 97% increase in incident minutes, compared to the two years prior to the announcement..."
pxc · 2023-03-27
Does anyone have real, contemporary numbers on this? Your observation matches my intuition, and I've seen some stats around the first two years after the acquisition¹, but I don't know any good up-to-date analysis on the question.
My intuition aligns too closely with my known biases here for me to be satisfied with that alone.
1: https://statusgator.com/blog/has-github-been-down-more-since-its-acqui…