Bitbucket out of order

Kaspar Vollenweider

Unfortunately Bitbucket seems to be down, but the status page reports all systems operational.

And Atlassian seems to have no place to report the issue either.

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Russ McFatter

Confirmed. I despise that all-too-common bad design pattern:

• Entire site is down

Something went wrong

Bitbucket is experiencing a problem that is preventing this request from being successful. Rest assured that we are aware and are working to fix it as quickly as possible. For more information please refer to https://status.bitbucket.org/. Alternatively, you're welcome to raise an issue with our support team at https://support.atlassian.com/contact.

• status page cheerfully reports that everything is up and great! 100% uptime! No issues!
• "you're welcome to raise an issue with our support team": No, you're not. At least if you're not on a paid plan.

Look: if people are visiting your status page, the status page itself should probe the site and make sure there are no current or ongoing problems. This is easy to do. It's an internal app. It can send a query and look for the proper response. It can check logs. It can confirm that the main page works at all. And then it can report the problem and show the status honestly instead of lying and telling everyone that everything's just peachy. Sorry, but that "100% uptime" is already dinged, even if the outage is just a few minutes.

And "Report a problem" should actually do something, not just refer people to the community where they can gripe about it to each other. If nothing else, "145 people have noted problems in the last hour. We're looking into it."

This is why third-party status monitors like DownDetector are far more trustworthy than a site policing itself.

If "we are aware and are working to fix it as quickly as possible", why is your own status page not aware, by the way?