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Milan, Italy Is Now a Live Monitoring Region, Here's Why It Matters
We just turned on a monitoring server in Milan. Here's the honest reasoning behind it, and why we think geographic coverage is a proxy for something more important.
The CrowdStrike Outage: What the Largest IT Failure in History Teaches Us About Incident Communication
On July 19, 2024, a single CrowdStrike sensor update took down 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide. Here's what their incident communication got right, what it got terribly wrong, and what every engineering team should take from it.
Atlassian Statuspage vs StatusPage.me: An Honest Comparison (2026)
Atlassian Statuspage is the market leader — but it has no built-in monitoring, requires OpsGenie for on-call (shutting down April 2027), and needs a third separate tool for uptime checks. Here's what the full stack actually looks like.
We Simplified Our Plans (Without Changing Pricing)
We reorganized our plans to better reflect how teams actually use StatusPage.me without changing pricing.
When Your Monitoring Infrastructure Goes Down
On March 19, 2026, our infrastructure provider had a 16-minute network outage. Our monitoring scheduler sits on that VPS — so every user's monitors simultaneously reported DOWN. Here's exactly what happened, why it's a hard problem, and what we built to prevent it from happening again.
Why Your Status Page Is Useless During an Outage (And How to Fix It)
Many status pages fail exactly when users need them most. Learn the common failure modes during outages and how to design a status page architecture that still works when everything else is breaking.
