How to detect when GitHub, AWS, or Discord is down — using a free JSON API

When your app breaks, the first question is always: is it us, or is it them? If you depend on GitHub, AWS, Discord, Stripe, Cloudflare, or any major third-party service, you've probably wasted hours debugging your own code only to find out the service was down the whole time. There's a free API for this. Let me show you how to use it. Meet DownStatus DownStatus is a free, public JSON API that gives you real-time status for 90+ popular services — no API key required. curl https://isitdownstatus.c