Engineering notes

What polling everyone's status page taught us

Build-log notes from behind DownDr - parsers, outages, and the ways a status page can quietly mislead you. Written by the person maintaining the feeds.

22 Jul 2026

Every status page lies to you a little

I thought building a status monitor would mostly be about polling APIs. I was wrong. Here are the things I learned after monitoring more than 75 developer dependencies.

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