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Best Practices to Ensure Effective Downtime Communication

Learn the best practices for downtime communication, from real-time updates to postmortems, and keep users informed during outages or planned downtime.

What Is an API Outage? Why It Happens and How to Avoid It

Learn what an API outage is, what causes it, and how it affects your business. Discover smart ways to prevent downtime and protect service reliability.

Bring third-party incidents into Better Stack

Connect IsDown to Better Stack and see third-party service outages as incidents in your existing on-call queue, with auto-resolve and live status updates.

How Often Has GitHub Gone Down? A Data-Backed Look at 2024 Outages

Check out GitHub outage trends in 2024. Explore the frequency of degraded performance across GitHub services. Learn strategies to mitigate downtime risks.

Is Github Reliable? Outage Trends, Stats & Comparisons

Is GitHub reliable for critical workflows? Explore outage trends, uptime data, and how it compares to GitLab and Bitbucket in real-world performance.

What Is a Status Page Aggregator?

Discover how a status page aggregator simplifies monitoring third-party services, delivers real-time alerts, and helps businesses prevent costly downtime.

What is a Status Page? All You Need to Know

What is a status page? See how, as an effective incident management tool offering streamlined incident communication, it enhances stakeholder satisfaction.

Top StatusTicker Alternatives for Outage Monitoring in 2025

Get to know the top 2025 alternatives to StatusTicker for monitoring outages. Explore tools that help you maximize status updates of third party performance.

Best StatusSight Alternatives for Vendor Monitoring

Discover the best alternatives to StatusSight for monitoring SaaS and cloud services in 2025. Compare options for outage monitoring to find your best fit.

Top EagleStatus Alternatives for 2025: Comprehensive Third-Party Monitoring Tools

Top 10 EagleStatus Alternatives for Comprehensive Monitoring

Best Downdetector Alternatives for Outage Monitoring in 2025

Find the perfect alternative to Downdetector in 2025. Compare the best tools for monitoring outages and keeping your business operations running smoothly.

The Holiday Season Is Over... Incidents Season Is Back!

Have you ever noticed how everything feels calm during the holidays? There are fewer alerts, notifications, and late-night calls.

December 2024 Updates - Introducing Widgets & 2FA

Introducing IsDown widgets, 2FA security, and 180+ monitored services in our December updates

Shopify Status in 2024: Unveiling Patterns, Trends, and How to Stay Ahead

An in-depth analysis of Shopify's 2024 incidents (Jan-Nov), highlighting patterns in frequency, duration, and affected services to keep you informed.

Looking for an incident management tool?

Looking for the right incident management tool? Learn what features matter most, how to evaluate options, and find the perfect fit for your team's needs.

GitHub Status in 2024: Unveiling Patterns, Trends, and How to Stay Ahead

GitHub and its components are used by developers and businesses around the world to power everything from small projects to large-scale operations. This is why it's crucial to understand the platform's reliability as a core business enabler.

Salesforce Outage Disrupts Services Globally: Updates and Timeline

Salesforce experienced a major outage that disrupted services globally. Here's a detailed breakdown of the situation, what's being done, and where you can find the latest updates.

OpenAI Status in 2024: Unveiling Patterns, Trends, and How to Stay Ahead

An in-depth analysis of OpenAI's 2024 incidents (Jan-Sep), highlighting patterns in frequency, duration, and affected services to keep you informed.

Supercharge Your Incident Response With The New Rootly and IsDown Integration

Explore the Rootly and IsDown integration for improved incident response, offering streamlined management and real-time updates.

The Role of External Service Monitoring in SRE Practices

Learn the importance of monitoring external services for modern businesses. Explore best practices in SRE, challenges, and how tools like isDown.app help ensure system reliability by consolidating service statuses, providing real-time alerts, and reducing downtime risks.

How SRE Teams Manage Downtime with Slack War Rooms

Learn how SRE teams leverage Slack War Rooms to manage downtime and incidents effectively.

Learn How Slack Helps SREs Stay Ahead of Service Disruptions

Slack is a powerful tool for SREs to stay on top of everything happening in real-time. Learn how it helps SREs in dealing when service disruptions happen.

How to promote an internal status page in your company

An internal status page is a centralized platform where a company can display the operational status of its internal systems and external services.

Centralizing Vendor Outage Data in Incident Management Platforms

IsDown connects official data from vendor status pages to the most popular incident management tools

Start Monitoring Third-Party Outages in Opsgenie

Learn more about the new integration between IsDown and Opsgenie. Monitor outages from third-party services right from Opsgenie.

Stop using Status Pages RSS Feeds in Slack

Managing RSS feeds in Slack for outage updates is getting harder. It can cause confusion and inefficiency. We have a better way.

How to set up on-call compensation

Once you set up an on-call team, the next step is to decide their compensation. There might be several questions in your mind right now: "How do we fairly value on-call time?" "Is it a flat rate or hourly?" and a few others.

Observability vs Monitoring vs Telemetry: Key Differences

Explore the differences between observability, monitoring, and telemetry, and why combining all three is key to managing performance and reducing downtime.

Unlocking Efficiency through Unified Monitoring - Maximizing Status Page Aggregation

Gone are the days of juggling multiple monitoring tools and piecing together fragmented data. The modern IT landscape demands a holistic approach known as unified monitoring when it comes to streamlining all your mission-critical services and vendors.

Top Providers for Vendor Status Pages

Today, businesses are heavily reliant on online systems and platforms. But how would you communicate with users if you encounter downtime or an incident? This is where a status page comes in.

Understanding Internal Status Pages

In today's fast-paced business environment, it's crucial for companies to monitor and address system health issues immediately. Internal status pages are tools designed for this purpose.

Custom Domains, SSL Monitoring, Private Status Page Ingestion and a lot more!

Discover our latest new features! Monitor SSL Certificates, show the status pages in your company domain, and more!

Explore the Best StatusGator Alternative: IsDown

Find the best StatusGator alternative! IsDown is your new status page aggregator and vendor monitoring tool!

Cloud Provider Uptime Monitoring: September 2023 Insights

Check our September 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

Cloud Provider Uptime Monitoring: July 2023 Insights

Check our July 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.

Cloud Provider Uptime Monitoring: June 2023 Insights

Explore our insightful June 2023 report on the uptime of top cloud providers. We've carefully assessed the health of these leading services by monitoring outages and issues throughout the month. Using data from their official status pages, we've normalized the information to create a clear and concise overview of their reliability. Find out how your favorite cloud provider stacks up in this essential report.

Upgrade Your Incident Response with IsDown and Squadcast Integration

We're thrilled to announce another significant feature release: the integration of IsDown with Squadcast. This integration brings a powerful addition to your incident management and SaaS outage monitoring toolkit, strengthening the reliability of your business and its response to any downtime.

Cloud Provider Uptime Monitoring: May 2023 Insights

Explore our insightful May 2023 report on the uptime of top cloud providers. We've carefully assessed the health of these leading services by monitoring outages and issues throughout the month. Using data from their official status pages, we've normalized the information to create a clear and concise overview of their reliability. Find out how your favorite cloud provider stacks up in this essential report.

Cloud Provider Performance Monitoring: April 2023 Insights

Explore our insightful April 2023 report on the performance of top cloud providers. We've carefully assessed the health of these leading services by monitoring outages and issues throughout the month. Using data from their official status pages, we've normalized the information to create a clear and concise overview of their reliability. Find out how your favorite cloud provider stacks up in this essential report.

How to monitor cloud vendors with Notion and IsDown

Notion, a popular all-in-one workspace tool, can help improve team communication, while IsDown makes it easy to track cloud vendors' status pages. In this blog post, we'll discuss how you can use these tools together to create an efficient and informed workplace.

What are the costs of downtime?

Downtime can be a nightmare for any online business. As the digital landscape continues to expand, the importance of maintaining a reliable and stable online presence has never been greater.

Monitor external dependencies outages in Datadog

We're excited to announce a new feature release: the integration of IsDown with Datadog.

Best practices when managing an outage

There’s never a good time for a service outage. And, from the moment it hits, it starts affecting your stakeholders. Suddenly, essential daily tasks are curtailed while your team enters emergency response mode. However, the surest way to mitigate damages and recover quickly is to follow a set of best practices.

Cloud Providers Health Report - February 2023

Check our February 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

Cloud Providers Health Report - January 2023

Check our January 2023 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

Cloud Providers Health Report - December 2022

Check our December 2022 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

How to monitor the status of external services

Monitoring the status of external services connected to your business is essential for providing reliable and efficient customer service.

Monitor all your cloud services in Datadog with IsDown

In this article, we will explain how you can monitor all your cloud service status pages in Datadog with the help of IsDown.

Cloud Providers Health Report - November 2022

Check November 2022 health report on the most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

Cloud Providers Health Report - October 2022

Check October 2022 health report on the most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

7 steps to set up an on-call team

There is a moment in every company when 24x7 support is needed. Congrats! Here are seven steps to consider when you start thinking about building an on-call team.

Cloud Providers Health Report - September 2022

Check September 2022 health report on the most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

Share your status dashboards with your team and customers

It is one of the most requested features in the last 6 months. People wanted to have an easy way to share the dashboard with their team and customers. Now it’s possible! And the best news is that it is accessible to every plan.

Cloud Providers Health Report - August 2022

Check the August 2022 health report on the most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month.

Monitoring outages in your third-party services with LogSnag

LogSnag is the new kid on the block, but we bet that it will become relevant in this space soon. Today we will show you how to monitor outages and get alerts for your third-party services within LogSnag.

What is on-call, and why is it important?

Your company has a product/service that needs to be up and running 24/7 or serving customers worldwide? Heads up, you might need an on-call team.

Monitor 3rd-party outages in PagerDuty

We’ve integrated IsDown with PagerDuty so you can manage alerts in the same place you manage all your other alerts.

What’s a Status Page Aggregator and why you need one

Monitoring your internal system is very standard practice, but what about monitoring your cloud services (SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, …)? This is where a Status Page Aggregator will become very handy!

AWS outage? A better way to monitor outages in Amazon Web Services

Amazon Web Services (AWS) needs no introduction. It’s one of the most popular services in the world. Here is a better way to monitor it.

Cloudflare outage? The Domino Effect!

Today, the day started a bit abruptly, with several services experiencing outages due to a Cloudflare outage.

Easily monitor cloud services for each team in your company

Introducing the Profiles feature! With this feature, you can now have in the same account multiple profiles to monitor each team cloud services.

How to Monitor Outages in Slack

Slack is one of the internet's most popular tools! Get Slack notifications when there are incidents in your services!

Introducing our Zapier Integration

Now you can get your alerts on incidents anywhere you want. IsDown meets Zapier.