This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Statusfield
If you’ve ever worked in DevOps, platform engineering, or software development, you know the drill. Everything’s running smoothly—until it’s not.
That’s exactly what happened to my team one day.
🚨 The Deployment Started It All
It was a normal weekday morning back in 2022. Sprint deadline coming up. Team shipping fast. We merged code, CI/CD pipeline kicked off—everything on track.
Then—💥 it all came crashing down.
Builds failed.
Tests stalled.
The deployment? DOA.
Panic mode kicked in:
- Checked recent commits—nothing obvious.
- Re-ran the pipeline—same issue.
- Rolled back—still broken.
Hours wasted.
Then someone finally said:
“Hey… could this be AWS?”
Sure enough—EC2 was down.
Our entire CI/CD process relied on EC2 instances. With them out, we were flying blind.
📉 The Real Cost of Downtime
Let’s face it—when EC2 goes down, there’s no quick fix. You’re not spinning up new infra in five minutes.
Maybe you have a fallback strategy. Maybe you don’t. Either way, knowing what’s actually broken is half the battle.
By the time we figured it out:
- Hours of dev time lost
- Stakeholder frustration
- And we still had to explain why we didn’t catch it earlier
Customers don’t care why your product is down—they just know it’s broken and it affects them.
And we didn’t have a good answer.
🔍 The Solution: I Built What I Wish I Had
After getting burned too many times, I built Statusfield—a simple but powerful way to monitor cloud service outages before they impact your team.
Here’s how it works:
📡 Tracks 50+ cloud services (AWS, GitHub, Stripe, and more)
🛠️ Monitors specific sub-services (like AWS S3, Stripe API, GitHub Actions)
📢 Sends instant alerts via Slack, Email (with more integrations on the way)
✅ No more status page hunting
✅ No more wasted debugging time
✅ Just instant awareness when things go sideways
It’s lightweight, fast, and built by developers—for developers.
💡 The Bottom Line: Downtime Is Inevitable — Being Caught Off Guard Isn’t
If your SaaS, startup, or DevOps team relies on cloud services (and whose doesn’t?), you deserve to know the second something breaks.
Because downtime is inevitable—but being blindsided isn’t.
👉 Try it out—I built this for teams like yours. Let me know what you think.
This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Statusfield
Statusfield | Sciencx (2025-04-05T19:53:27+00:00) Never Miss a Service Disruption Again: How I Learned the Hard Way. Retrieved from https://www.scien.cx/2025/04/05/never-miss-a-service-disruption-again-how-i-learned-the-hard-way/
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