Unveiling Downdetector: A Deep Dive into Its Internal Incident Detection Engine
Introduction Downdetector stands as the world’s leading platform for real-time service status updates, tracking over 20,000 services across 49 countries and serving hundreds of millions of users monthly.[2] Unlike traditional monitoring tools that rely on internal metrics, Downdetector leverages crowdsourced user reports combined with signals from social media and web sources to detect outages.[2] This blog post dissects its internal workings, focusing on data collection, baseline calculations, aggregation algorithms, and incident thresholding—drawing directly from official methodology disclosures for an accurate, technical breakdown.[2] ...