The status page the Internet needs: Cloudflare Radar Outage Center
Cloudflare has launched a new tool called the Cloudflare Radar Outage Center (CROC) as part of its Radar 2.0 update, aiming to provide an archive of information on global Internet outages. The CROC is designed to be a first stop and key resource for civil society organizations, journalists, and impacted parties seeking information or corroboration on reported or observed Internet outages. It includes summary information about observed outage events such as location, autonomous system number (ASN), type, scope, cause, start time, and end time. The tool is built on top of an associated API that allows interested parties to integrate the available outage data with their own datasets or develop custom interfaces. Future improvements include increased automation of outage detection, more timely information updates, and plans to extend the CROC to include cloud service providers' status pages.
Company
Cloudflare
Date published
Sept. 30, 2022
Author(s)
David Belson, Stanley Chiang
Word count
741
Language
English
Hacker News points
5