What Went Down: Week Ending March 13, 2023
Newsworthy: Datadog had a major outage for 24 hours and 20 minutes on 8th March. You can learn more about the outage, how we monitored it, and how Metrist can be the Datadog for your Datadog here. And you can check out a demo of our Datadog monitor here. Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While […]
Who is the Datadog for Datadog?
Let’s get a little trippy. In light of the major Datadog outage on Wednesday, people were asking, “Who is the Datadog for Datadog?” When an important tool like Datadog is down – how can you tell if it’s down or back up again without constantly checking status pages or social media? Well That’s Where […]
What Went Down: Week Ending March 6th, 2023
Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. AWS AWS RDS (MySQL). On 27th February, CreateInstance was not responding from US East 1 for 40 minutes. Azure Azure AKS. On 28th February, CreateCluster was not responding from Azure […]
What is AI Ops and How is AI Ops Useful for Incident Response?
When it comes to incident response, AIOps is an up-and-coming field. Reliability is critical to companies, but in today’s complex, interdependent software environment, observability and incident response is becoming more and more complex. So, it’s useful to use AI to improve incident response, observability, and the reliability of our systems – which is where AIOps […]
What Went Down: Week Ending February 27, 2023
Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. Azure Azure CDN’s PurgeFile was not responding from Azure Central US for 25 minutes on the 24th GCP GCP Compute Engine’s DeleteInstance is not responding from GCP US Central 1 […]
What Went Down: Week Ending February 20, 2023
Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime Check out these outages that may not have made the news, but these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. Azure Azure SQL experienced an incident on the 14th in which CreateSqlServer was not responding from Azure West US for 1 hour, and Azure Blob Storage experienced […]
Metrist February 2023 Updates: New Crowdsourcing Beta Program, Product Updates, and More
It’s been an eventful start to the year and we wanted to share some updates with you all. We’re Launching Crowdsourced Data. Want To Be In On the Insights First? Imagine being able to know exactly if/how you are impacted by a cloud dependency issue, but also how the incident is playing out across […]
What Went Down: Week Ending January 13, 2023
Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. AWS AWS EC2 had issues Running instances from US East 1 for 13 minutes on the 6th. AWS Route53 was unable to Create DNS Record from US West 1 for 11 […]
What Went Down: Week Ending February 6th, 2023
Notable Metrist-Reported Downtime While these outages didn’t make the news, these issues caught by Metrist may have affected your company’s app and operations. The biggest incidents of the week belonged to Azure CDN and New Relic which occurred over the 4th and 5th. AWS AWS RDS. CreateInstance was was not responding from CA Central […]
What Went Down: Week Ending January 30, 2023
Newsworthy: Probably the most notable outage of the week (if not month) was Microsoft’s, which had a major outage with Azure that lasted from 07:05 UTC to 09:45 UTC (2hrs, 40mins) on the 25th. This outage also impacted Teams, Office365, NPM,Github, and several other apps that use Azure as a cloud dependency. You can see […]
