Bitware Labs/Status
Estate status
We sell monitoring and incident response, so here is ours — probed every five minutes from the estate itself, published whether or not it flatters us.
How this is measured
§ — Method
A cron job probes each service every five minutes. HTTP services get a full
request with certificate verification on; the mail service gets a TCP
connection and has to return a 220 greeting. A failed probe is
retried once two seconds later before it counts — a single dropped packet is
not an outage, and a status page that cries wolf is worse than none.
Anything slower than two seconds is recorded as degraded rather than down. Uptime is the share of successful checks over the last 30 days; the bars show one day each for the last 45, and grey means no data rather than no service.
The probe runs on the estate. It confirms the services are answering, not that the route from your network to them is healthy — if the upstream link were down, this page would be unreachable and cheerfully green. It is deliberately not a substitute for external monitoring; it is the lab showing its own instrumentation.
Seeing something red that should not be, or green that should not be? Tell me.