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api status monitoring
SHOW HN2013
143points
33comments
#142of 1,739 in 2013
Top 9%of 2013 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
9 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 2 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score +0.23.
Design: 3 for, 2 againstIdea: 3 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Nicely made and useful for developers
From 2 comments
Nicely made. Only thing I could suggest would making the headers sticky/fixed since there are so many rows.
TannerLD on HNWow this is great! I was literally working on something just like this last week. A couple of things I found to be of value in my project that you might find helpful: 1)…
goronbjorn on HN
Objections
Font renders with holes in Chrome on Windows
From 1 comment
Not sure how well the site's font renders on other machines/browsers, but on Windows 7 Pro x64, Google Chrome 26.0.1410.64 m, your font renders with holes in it. Very odd.…
Afforess on HN
Date order is right to left
From 1 comment
Who made that date order right to left? -.-
tarikozket on HN
Requests
Endpoint-level uptime granularity
From 1 comment
Wow this is great! I was literally working on something just like this last week. A couple of things I found to be of value in my project that you might find helpful: 1)…
goronbjorn on HN
Response time monitoring
From 2 comments
Wow this is great! I was literally working on something just like this last week. A couple of things I found to be of value in my project that you might find helpful: 1)…
goronbjorn on HNWe're currently authoring an API and have a built an extremely crude reporting page showing endpoint response times by method.…
buro9 on HN
Add Amazon Product Advertising API
From 1 comment
Awesome site! It would be great if you added Amazon APIs on this as well. Specifically: Amazon Product Advertising API…
fireworks10 on HN
Link services to their status pages
From 2 comments
One addition I would add would be to actually link to the service or their status page. If you are going to call them out if their service is down, at least give them something…
screeley on HNAre you going to link the logos to their respective sites?
jjsz on HN
Sticky headers and top bar
From 2 comments
Nicely made. Only thing I could suggest would making the headers sticky/fixed since there are so many rows.
TannerLD on HNVery cool. My only suggestion would be to see the top bar no matter how far down I scroll.
missing_cipher on HN
Questions
Is response time data useful to developers
From 1 comment
We're currently authoring an API and have a built an extremely crude reporting page showing endpoint response times by method.…
buro9 on HN
Alternatives named
api-status.com
From 3 comments
Great stuff! When I showed this to a coworker, he pointed out http://api-status.com/
sciurus on HNWhich appears to be no longer maintained.
johns on HNYep, they almost achieve the same thing - unfortunately its terribly out of date and there is no real API for the page.
tommoor on HN