CategoryDowntimes

Is Northern Virginia Really the Least Reliable AWS Region And Why?

Northern Virginia Reliability

AWS users usually assume that Northern Virginia, also referred to as US East (N. Virginia) and us-east-1, is the least reliable in terms of uptime. We analyzed AWS outage history in 2022 across regions to see if N. Virginia, indeed, had the most downtime. Then we reviewed and proved some of the theories as to why N. Virginia has the most outages. The Data Behind the Study We used our product...

23 Facts on GitHub Reliability in 2022: Data Study of Outages by StatusGator

23 GitHub outage facts in 2022, GitHub downtime study by StatusGator

With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator.  Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s reliability in 2022 and find and uncover some interesting facts about GitHub outages.  The data behind this article For our analysis of GitHub’s reliability, we used historical...

7 Statuspage Alternatives for Better Incident Communication

Statuspage alternative StatusGator

What is Statuspage.io? Statuspage is a popular status page provider used by thousands of teams to communicate the status of their services. Atlassian acquired Statuspage, a Y-Combinator-backed service, in 2016 and invested significantly in expanding status page features to stand out among Statuspage alternatives.  Overall, Statuspage is a well-established status page software, but it comes...

CircleCI Outages: Have They Kept Their Promises in 2022?

CircleCI promise of reliability analysis by StatusGator

At the beginning of April 2022, a massive disruption in CircleCI caused large portions of their cloud offering to be unavailable for users worldwide. It occurred after CircleCI deployed a change to its front end and an auto-vacuum job on one of its core databases. Due to this outage, CircleCI users were unable to run tests and deploy code. After the incident, CircleCI promised to prevent these...

How Did Slack Perform a Year After the Acquisition by Salesforce

Slack outage report before after Salesforce by StatusGator

Slack is a popular messaging and communication platform used for work, study, groups, and communities. According to Techjury, more than 10 million people used Slack every day in 2022, and 43% of Fortune 100 businesses are paying for Slack subscriptions. On July 21, 2021, Salesforce completed its purchase of Slack for $27.7 billion and announced plans to make Slack an operating unit under...

What Was the Least Reliable GitHub Feature in 2022

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With over 83 million users, GitHub is one of the most popular development tools out there and the third most monitored service on StatusGator. Since so many users depend on GitHub, we wanted to analyze GitHub’s downtime over the past year and see which GitHub features (i.e., Codespaces, PRs, Actions, etc.) were the least reliable. The Data Behind This Article To evaluate which GitHub features...