Introduction

Modern products and modern teams are built on and reliant upon a number of dependencies, from hosting providers, payment gateways, email APIs, to third party widgets and feeds. When these providers go down, it can cause internal havoc and confusion, it only takes one small breaking change in a dependency to impact users of your service in unexpected ways. Teams often find themselves drudging through status pages and looking for third party reports to get an idea of what’s going on, and that’s if there’s even enough information to suspect a third party in the first place.

Sonar, although it’s mainly geared towards competitor updates, is: by it’s nature a perfect tool for keeping a close eye on all of this.…