How I Monitor 80+ Cloud Services in Real-Time (And Get Notified Before My Users Do)

A deep dive into building StatusWatch; push notifications for service outages, built with Flutter and a real time status aggregation backend. The moment that started it all It was a Friday evening. A client messaged me: "The checkout isn't working." Stripe had been down for 38 minutes. I had no idea. I did what most developers do opened five browser tabs, checked Stripe's status page, scrolled Twitter looking for complaints. By the time I confirmed the issue and messaged the client back, 45 minu