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The text, which was displayed when someone moved the mouse cursor over the red dot that indicates that a service is down, has been adjusted. This was necessary because it turns out that people frequently misinterpreted the text, which explained that: “This service is currently unavailable.”
Especially in Self Service, this message was often perceived to mean that it was currently not possible to submit any requests for that service. That is why the text now reads: “This service is currently affected by a top-impact incident and is unavailable for several users.”
Incident Management
An AI SRE that knows your incidents
Most AI SREs are pattern matchers trained on public data. They know what a memory leak looks like in the abstract. They don't know that your payments-api has a flaky liveness probe everyone ignores, that the checkout team owns the retry policy, or that the last three "database incidents" were actually cache misconfigurations. That knowledge lives in your postmortems, your Slack channels, and the heads of two senior engineers.
5 Mins
September 10, 2026
Incident Management
