Wouldn't it be quite simple to set up an unofficial status page that just pings ...

alkonaut on Jan 25, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Microsoft Azure Outage

Wouldn't it be quite simple to set up an unofficial status page that just pings some relevant services and if they have a disastrous outage at least, it shows it?

Because I think it's clear that their status page is useless and "manual".