Ask HN: How to get ISP Outage data?

3 points by ternaryJimbo ↗ HN
Hi, I'm working on an open source project where I'd like to incorporate ISP outage data. This service claims that it reports accurate ISP outage data, that is not crowdsourced like downdetector: https://www.thousandeyes.com/outages/faq

Quote: "Q: Where does outage data come from?

A: ThousandEyes agents located across the Internet perform billions of measurements each day, yielding a massive data set that includes network interface and application server-level information on when and where network traffic is disrupted and applications are unavailable."

Anyone wager a guess on what websites they are scraping, and what measurements they are making to come up with this data?

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Presumably a listing of top websites (e.g., Alexa Top 100 / Top 1,000) would give a strong measure.

One of them appears to be Github ;-)