Autumn. Live.
Outage Observer
Live status for providers in your stack.
The problem
Every provider has a status page; nobody watches 151 of them. An outage reaches you as your own error rate, or as a post on X, before the page admits it.
The approach
One Worker polls the official status pages of 151 infrastructure and AI providers, detects each transition exactly once, and tells you where you already are: a bot in Telegram, Slack or Discord, a push, an RSS feed, the public board, or a Mac menu-bar app.
What we learned
The hard part is not polling; it is not lying. Atomic transition detection, alerts that know which region you are in, and self-hosted brand icons so nothing phones home. Bot Fight Mode blocks your own heartbeat if it hits the custom domain.
Next
Per-provider pages with uptime history.
outage.observer- Status
- Live; launched on Product Hunt in June 2026
- Runs on
- The web board; Telegram, Slack and Discord bots; push, RSS; a Mac menu-bar app
- Since
- June 2026
- Built with
- One Cloudflare Worker with D1 and KV, on the free tier; a native Swift Mac app
- Signature
- 151 providers watched, region-aware alerts, a free tier that throttles rather than bills
- Also
- Telegram, GitHub
The print
Eddystone Lighthouse
Built on a reef off Plymouth in 1698, to warn ships about what they could not see coming.
After Henry Roberts, 1761. All three inks: umber, orange, sunflower. Source. Public domain.
