plz1@lemmy.world to Proton @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agoSeems like Proton is having a bad eveninglemmy.worldimagemessage-square18fedilinkarrow-up1152arrow-down11file-text
arrow-up1151arrow-down1imageSeems like Proton is having a bad eveninglemmy.worldplz1@lemmy.world to Proton @lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 days agomessage-square18fedilinkfile-text
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoServers could still be up and responding to pings, yet backend databases could be down. Or it could be a caching problem with the status service. It’s bad ways of handling your status page but it happens.
minus-squarekautau@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·5 days agoIt’s also a business decision. Many times companies will massage their verbiage and have a plan in place before they even change the status to “investigating” simply to appease when they have SLAs. It’s stupid, but that’s often the reason.
minus-squareScolding7300@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoThere’s also a insurmountable amount of potential issues to cover, not worth the automation
minus-squarex00z@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoIt depends on the services, but in the end it’s pretty easy to spoof handshake packets to see if a service on a server is still running. nmap is a great example.
minus-squareScolding7300@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·5 days agoI meant on the logic side of things
Servers could still be up and responding to pings, yet backend databases could be down.
Or it could be a caching problem with the status service.
It’s bad ways of handling your status page but it happens.
It’s also a business decision. Many times companies will massage their verbiage and have a plan in place before they even change the status to “investigating” simply to appease when they have SLAs. It’s stupid, but that’s often the reason.
There’s also a insurmountable amount of potential issues to cover, not worth the automation
It depends on the services, but in the end it’s pretty easy to spoof handshake packets to see if a service on a server is still running.
nmap is a great example.
I meant on the logic side of things