Show HN: InternetVitals – the internet's vital signs, like a patient monitor
InternetVitals is a website that displays real-time data on global internet health, presenting metrics and indicators similar to a patient monitor to track the state of the internet.
Background
- InternetVitals is a dashboard that displays real-time status data for major internet services and infrastructure — think of it as a "patient monitor" for the health of the web.
- It tracks things like global traffic, latency, DNS resolution, outages at major providers (Cloudflare, AWS, Google Cloud, etc.), and possibly metrics like BGP routing stability or CDN performance.
- The "Show HN" prefix means this was posted on Hacker News (news.ycombinator.com), a community-run tech news aggregator run by Y Combinator, where people share and discuss their own projects.
- The concept is similar to existing tools like Downdetector (crowdsourced outage reports) or ThousandEyes (enterprise network monitoring), but positioned as a single, public-facing overview — more like a "big board" for the internet itself.
- Readers who follow tech discourse would care because constant, visible health monitoring of core infrastructure has become a mainstream concern after high-profile outages at major cloud providers and CDNs in recent years.