When production starts failing, one of the first questions is also one of the most expensive to...
When production starts failing, one of the first questions is also one of the most expensive to answer badly:
Is our application broken, or is a provider we depend on having an incident?
If the dependency is AWS, Cloudflare, GitHub, OpenAI, Stripe, or another cloud or SaaS vendor, there are two common approaches:
Read the provider's official status page.
Probe the service yourself.
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