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That status page is the most salesforce thing ever.

Scroll down. >_<

I see tabs with a spinner loading infinitely, which is indeed very salesforce like
Wow, it's almost as long as the Every UUID V4 or Every Floating Point Number pages.
Yup. No mention of outage. Even drilling down gets nothing more than "Service Disruption".
It lists all instances, you can drill down into each one of them, see which services are affected, and each affected service pops up the incident timeline?

Isn't it actually amazing, and not "the most salesforce thing ever"?

This is certainly a unique status page.
At least now we can figure out what Salesforce does.
"And in tonight's news, the worldwide CRM solution Salesforce had a global outage affecting one hundred percent of its customer base. We interviewed users of the service to find out the scope of the impact. Everyone agreed that they were impacted, but strangely, nobody could describe _in what way_ they were affected."
Perfect timing with Dreamforce this week.
Remind me please, what are folks currently paying per seat for this glorified CRUD app?
It's this thing called golf course driven development
If I had been just out of Uni I would think this is edgy

Now I'm just glad I'm not responsible for this fire

There is a published sticker price, but I don't think anyone outside of tiny installs with just a few users pays that... it's very much the enterprise sales model of "let's schedule a call and talk about it." They also for many years would let previously negotiated prices stand during renewals even when sticker price went up, so older orgs often have the "same" license being charged at many different prices based on when it was first purchased and how the negotiations went at the time.
Was it DNS? Any guesses? :)
Vibe-slop, push to Prod?
They let their agentic AI take over system maintenance at Dreamforce yesterday like they were pushing in the talks

/s (partly)

Could it be people doing Claude/GPT automations and they just can't handle it?
And nothing of value was lost. God, I hate everything about Salesforce. Sometimes I have to integrate against their services, and it is always a pain, not to mention what the core project actually is: optimization of marketing and spam.
not really defending salesforce but OAuth+REST is a pain? Pretty plain vanilla in terms of integration requirements.
Sure, if you’re struggling with weird custom endpoint behavior, or custom triggers and validation, that’s on your admins and devs.

But if you’re having trouble with the standard rest or bulk apis, that’s 100% on you.

You better bet someone started their agents with a prompt "Make a salesforce clone but with 100% uptime"
It's dns isn't it
It's always DNS.-
More like 70% human-configured DNS, 25% human-configured routing configuration, 5% interesting software bug.
Entirely correct.-

(Nowadays any of those need to fit in an "agent dropped all tables. Apologized" moment.-)

Feel like it has to be for all of this to go down at the same time.
I was scrolling to see this comment, haha
The last time it was DNS at Salesforce, the poor guy got unceremoniously canned. So there's some incentive for it to... not be DNS.
So I guess today everyone gets actual work done
Never before in the history of global compute outages was so little lost by so many down servers, whose purpose was known to so few.
Wow, the intern must have tripped over a very big power cable this time
Sam speaks at Salesforce.

Salesforce goes down.

No causation here...move on.

Wasn't it Dario
Huang, Sam and Dario speaking at Dreamforce.
My gut instinct is that this is about when all of their on prem servers were EOL and their /public cloud solution was required. This must have had something to do with that
Ah yes. Exactly what a status page should look like: an endless list of random ID’s that don’t mean anything and no information whatsoever

At least salesforce is consistent with their design language

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It loads very fast for me.

It has a search that works well.

When you click on an instance it shows what service is down and has a log of updates that come in roughly every 30 minutes.

The instance status URL is predictable so runbooks could already be prepared with deep links.

It even has a text box for email updates.

What more do you want exactly?

Random Ids? If you mean the “USA324” ones, those are pods. If you’re a customer you know which one(s) you care about.
This might actually be one of the most useful status pages ive seen. Its not just random green tick marks representing the entire service that only change yellow when someone gives and admits that 5 hours of bad service is an outage.
You can click on any of the instances and then the service that is down to read the updates. It’s not 100% clear but some sort of issue with a “legacy login service”. The latest updates say a fix is rolling out.
Dreamforce, wake up. You’ve overslept!
Haven't they got some kind of new fancy ai interface they can use to fix it?