YC-backed Zapier launches dashboard to track downtime for nearly 200 APIs

App integration startup Zapier has launched a new API status dashboard, a tool that can help developers and companies identify downtime for about 200 APIs.

Amazon, Heroku say ‘Merry Christmas’ to devs with downtime

Looks like last night’s Netflix outages didn’t happen just because too many of us were escaping our families in the warm, familiar glow of bad TV shows. It’s Amazon’s fault. Specifically, Amazon Web Services, and more specifically yet, EC2.

UPDATE, 

Don’t panic! Netflix is experiencing some holiday downtime

Tons of Netflix subscribers are apparently unable to escape the boredom of hanging out with their family members by streaming movies during Christmas eve.

Pinterest to Amazon: no pinning for you on Black Friday!

Traffic is generally a good thing for websites. But perhaps Pinterest, which has been called the third most popular social network after Facebook and Twitter, has enough.

The high cost of server downtime (infographic)

Even when a service is up 99.5 percent of the time -- which might sound pretty good to non-developers -- it's down almost 44 hours in a year.

Facebook goes down for some, but not due to an attack

Facebook went down for a while between last night and today, taking a few much-needed, well deserved moments of rest from an unrelenting Internet.

Put somewhat differently, the company’s servers and/or software caved at one of the worst possible moments, …

FYI: PlayStation Network down today at noon PT for planned maintenance

Sorry weekend gamers. Sony’s PlayStation Network will be down today starting at noon PT for scheduled maintenance and will last until approximately 2 a.m. PT on Monday, according to a Sony announcement.

“Unlike typical maintenance events, consumers who are already …

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform down for more than half a day

Microsoft’s Azure cloud platform suffered a serious outage Tuesday evening and many customers are still without full access, according to the Azure Service Dashboard.

Azure is used by many companies to host and build web applications through Microsoft’s own data …

API downtime: Who's asleep at the wheel?

Many popular applications use the application programming interfaces (APIs) of other services, from your favorite Twitter client to Facebook apps. So downtime on the most popular APIs has a serious knock-on effect on other services and (up)time is money.

Performance …

You can't escape Facebook's downtime

Update: Facebook says (via Twitter) that all of the issues have been resolved.

Unless you’re the most diligent worker on the planet, you’ve probably seen that Facebook has had an outage for most of the afternoon. The site appears to …