Stack Status – Tracking outages across the internet's underlying stack

Name: Stack Status – Tracking outages across the internet's underlying stack
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Author: thestackfox

by thestackfox·Feb 19, 2026·3 points·0 comments

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AI Analysis

●●SolidSolve My ProblemDark Horse

Real-time outage aggregator, but relies on services publishing status independently.

Strengths

•Solves genuine pain: engineers waste time checking 20 status pages separately.
•Smart categorization by layer (auth, hosting, DBaaS, queues) reveals cascade risk.
•Clean UI with incident severity levels and timeline metadata.

Weaknesses

•Depends on upstream status page API adoption—many services don't publish machine-readable feeds.
•Early stage: only 77 services; missing major players or real-time detection for silent failures.

Post Description

I built a dashboard to track incidents across the services the internet quietly relies on: stackfox.co/stack-status

Web apps feel flakier lately because the stacks underneath keep getting taller. When one layer blips (auth, hosting, DBaaS, queues), everything above it starts failing.

Stack Status pulls outages from major infra providers and shows what’s actually down right now.

Early version — feedback on missing providers or categories is welcome.

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