[SOLVED] OUTAGE: Our production website is down and it seems not to have any data

[Sebastian]

@ubuntudroid

Looking forward: is there a way this could be catched by automated tests on the server side? Something which also triggers the status page to show that there is an issue in such a case?

Yes, definitely, but it would not have helped in this case. The error would have been detected 10 minutes earlier or so.

[ubuntudroid]

Visibility always helps, at the least with expectation management.