I would like to create a system dashboard similar to these to show the current state of any Community IT managed service:
- http://www.google.com/appsstatus#hl=en&v=status
- http://status.aws.amazon.com/
- http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/
I have a couple objectives with a tool like this:
- a good forum to announce planned maintenance.
- showcase (the art of “bragging” is important) all the services Community IT is helping support/manage
- exercise transparency in which systems are up or down
I spun up two sample sites to share where my mind is at:
- http://status.mozilla-community.org/ (uptime.ly)
- http://health.mozilla-community.org/ (statushub.io)
I don’t want to be too prescriptive - there are certainly other solutions - but something like this I think is really important to have.
I think any solution will need some sort of integration with monitoring tools (for automated updates).
I think this also makes a great first bug for someone ~ https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1081455.
How do we get traction on this?