Status page translator
What the status page says, and what it means.
The phrasebook
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We are investigating reports of elevated error rates.
Something is on fire. We don't know what yet.
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A subset of customers may be affected.
Probably you.
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Degraded performance
It works. Slowly. If you're patient and lucky.
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We have identified the issue and are implementing a fix.
Someone found the bad change. It's being rolled back right now.
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Out of an abundance of caution
We're nervous too.
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We are monitoring the results.
It's fixed, and we're staring at graphs, afraid to blink.
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This incident has been resolved.
Everyone can go back to bed.
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We will share a full root cause analysis.
Someone's week just got busy. Thank you, someone.
Be kind to the person typing
Behind every one of these lines is a tired engineer writing fast, with a lawyer, a boss and a million users reading over their shoulder. We tease the words, never the people.