Hi, I’m mike.

I built a simple status page for a test tenant with test resolvers so I can see real-time health and a lightweight history of degradation events. It’s not a customer-facing product. It’s an incident tool for me: one place to answer “what’s broken, where, since when?” before anyone else reports it. It’s private and access-controlled, but it lives on a real server. I treat it like production anyway. Why I Built This Whalebone has a status page, but it’s updated manually based on alerts and internal reports. That’s fine for broad comms, but it’s not the same as having a single, always-on view tailored to the failures customers actually complain about. ...

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