I made a downdetector for downdetector's downdetector's downdetector (downdetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetectorsdowndetector.com)

Ok, this is getting ridiculous…

This downdetector seems to be down. We might need another downdetector.

This isn't funny anymore. Go to reddit to do this.

We watch the watchers that watch the watchers

Do we really need more than two down-detectors? Just point them at each other...

A good start, but let's see more.

What is Benoit B. Mandelbrot's middle name? Benoit B. Mandelbrot.

The next step: Point downdector to downdector's downdector's downdector and create a cyclic dependency

Trace buster buster buster

This seems more valuable than one level down. Or is it up? Or in?

This seems really useful.

I love the joke. The thing is, it's not so funny when companies actually try to do this on their own systems. I've never seen a 4x deep observability stack. But I have seen 3x, an entire project team dedicated to building a system that watches the watchers. It gets absurd.