Built a tiny tool after the Cloudflare outage - would love honest feedback
The other days Cloudflare outage wasted a few hours of my day - not because the outage was confusing, but because my monitoring stack was basically gaslighting me.
Everything lit up red.
Every “DOWN” alert fired.
But none of it told me whether the issue was:
my origin
Cloudflare’s edge
DNS
SSL
routing
My servers were fine the whole time.
It made me realise most monitoring tools don’t distinguish origin failures from CDN/edge failures — so one vendor issue looks like a total infrastructure meltdown.
So I hacked together a small tool that does a clean diagnostic:
Enter a URL and it checks:
origin health
Cloudflare/Vercel/AWS edge
DNS
SSL expiry
CDN failure patterns
Not trying to hype anything — I literally built this out of frustration and I’d genuinely love feedback from folks here.
What would you expect a tool like this to detect?
Any edge cases I should add?
Would appreciate honest thoughts.
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