A blog about monitoring the 3rd party services businesses rely on https://isdown.app/ Error budgets translate your SLO into a measurable allowance for failure. Learn how to calculate, defend, and spend your error budget - and why vendor outages silently drain it. Wed, 20 May 2026 05:57:28 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/error-budget-sre https://isdown.app/blog/error-budget-sre Six years of major cloud outages dissected - AWS, Cloudflare, CrowdStrike and more. Root causes, failure patterns, and what SRE teams keep getting wrong. Wed, 13 May 2026 07:35:00 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-outage-history https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-outage-history IsDown detected 45 outages up to 3.6 hours before vendors acknowledged them in April 2026, plus 104 incidents vendors never reported. Sun, 03 May 2026 02:33:45 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/april-2026-isdown-users-saved-16-5-hours-with-early-outage-detection https://isdown.app/blog/april-2026-isdown-users-saved-16-5-hours-with-early-outage-detection AWS outage history follows a predictable pattern: us-east-1, cascade failures, status pages that lag 30-90+ minutes. Here's what engineering teams should learn. Wed, 22 Apr 2026 06:21:17 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/aws-outage-history https://isdown.app/blog/aws-outage-history IsDown detected 33 outages up to 2.3 hours before vendors acknowledged them in March 2026, plus 87 incidents vendors never reported. Mon, 06 Apr 2026 04:10:04 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/march-2026-isdown-users-saved-10-5-hours-with-early-outage-detection https://isdown.app/blog/march-2026-isdown-users-saved-10-5-hours-with-early-outage-detection Cut MTTR on vendor-caused incidents with two runbooks, proactive monitoring, and graceful degradation. A practical guide for DevOps teams and SREs. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 07:06:55 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-reduce-mttr-when-third-party-services-go-down https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-reduce-mttr-when-third-party-services-go-down AWS Health Dashboard lags 30-60 min during outages. Learn the monitoring stack SREs actually use to detect AWS issues before they hit customers. Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:49:03 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-monitor-aws-status-don-t-wait-for-the-health-dashboard https://isdown.app/blog/how-to-monitor-aws-status-don-t-wait-for-the-health-dashboard IsDown widgets now support multi-language status messages. Customize operational, degraded, and outage text per language with automatic fallback. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 11:25:53 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/multi-language-status-page-widgets-customize-widget-messages-in-any-language https://isdown.app/blog/multi-language-status-page-widgets-customize-widget-messages-in-any-language Monthly status report for AI systems in February 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Sun, 08 Mar 2026 04:01:01 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-february-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-february-2026 Monitor SendGrid status in real time to detect email delivery outages before they impact customers. Get instant alerts when SendGrid degrades or goes down. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:05:01 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/sendgrid-status-monitoring https://isdown.app/blog/sendgrid-status-monitoring YouTube went down on February 17, 2026, affecting homepage, sign-in, and TV apps worldwide. Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:44:00 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/youtube-outage-february-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/youtube-outage-february-2026 AWS CloudFront DNS failures on Feb 10 cascaded to 20+ services. Full timeline, which services were hit, and what engineering teams can learn from it. Wed, 11 Feb 2026 04:15:18 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/aws-cloudfront-outage-february-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/aws-cloudfront-outage-february-2026 Monthly status report for cloud providers in January 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:28:27 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-january-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-january-2026 IsDown detected 34 outages up to 2.2 hours before vendors acknowledged them in January 2026, plus 101 incidents vendors never reported. Fri, 06 Feb 2026 07:26:29 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/january-2026-isdown-users-saved-9-2-hours-with-early-outage-detection https://isdown.app/blog/january-2026-isdown-users-saved-9-2-hours-with-early-outage-detection Monthly status report for AI systems in January 2026. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 07:50:51 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-january-2026 https://isdown.app/blog/ai-systems-status-report-january-2026 A practical guide comparing the true costs of building vs buying monitoring solutions, including hidden expenses, decision frameworks, and when each approach makes sense for IT teams. Tue, 27 Jan 2026 05:20:24 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/build-vs-buy-monitoring-the-real-cost-breakdown-for-it-teams https://isdown.app/blog/build-vs-buy-monitoring-the-real-cost-breakdown-for-it-teams We're excited to announce a new way to interact with IsDown: the MCP Server. Now you can query your monitoring data directly from AI assistants like Claude. Mon, 26 Jan 2026 08:14:43 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/introducing-isdown-mcp https://isdown.app/blog/introducing-isdown-mcp Monthly status report for LLM Providers in December 2025. Official incidents, early detections by IsDown, and more for OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini. Thu, 22 Jan 2026 07:45:14 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/llm-providers-status-report-december-2025 https://isdown.app/blog/llm-providers-status-report-december-2025 Monthly status report for cloud providers in December 2025. Official incidents and IsDown-detected issues for AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, and more. Tue, 20 Jan 2026 09:31:47 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-december-2025 https://isdown.app/blog/cloud-provider-status-report-december-2025 Track GitHub outages before they kill your CI/CD. Compare official status pages, API monitoring, crowdsourced alerts, and automated GitHub outage tracker tools. Fri, 26 Dec 2025 06:02:06 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/github-outage-tracker-and-history https://isdown.app/blog/github-outage-tracker-and-history Stop losing clients during vendor outages. Learn how MSP SaaS monitoring eliminates blind spots when Microsoft 365, AWS, or Slack go down. Wed, 24 Dec 2025 06:05:23 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/why-every-msp-needs-centralized-saas-monitoring https://isdown.app/blog/why-every-msp-needs-centralized-saas-monitoring Master blameless postmortem culture to build resilient systems. Learn how removing fault improves incident response and team collaboration. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 05:03:25 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/blameless-postmortem-foundation-of-site-reliability https://isdown.app/blog/blameless-postmortem-foundation-of-site-reliability Learn how to automate DORA third-party risk management for cloud dependencies. Stop manual checks and ensure compliance with proven automation strategies. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:02:46 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/stop-manual-checks-automating-dora-compliance-for-cloud-dependencies https://isdown.app/blog/stop-manual-checks-automating-dora-compliance-for-cloud-dependencies Learn how to build a DORA register to map and monitor critical ICT third-party providers. Get practical steps for compliance and risk management. Fri, 28 Nov 2025 15:01:42 -0500 https://isdown.app/blog/building-your-dora-register-how-to-map-and-monitor-critical-saas-dependencies https://isdown.app/blog/building-your-dora-register-how-to-map-and-monitor-critical-saas-dependencies Statuspage.io is for publishing your own status page. But who's monitoring your vendors? Compare alternatives for both use cases in 2026. Wed, 29 Oct 2025 06:23:46 -0400 https://isdown.app/blog/best-statuspage-io-alternatives-in-2025 https://isdown.app/blog/best-statuspage-io-alternatives-in-2025