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**"Is this service up" has at least six incompatible live wire formats
today, a clean HTTP 200 proves nothing about whether the feed has content,
and the one vendor with a fixed documented path (Atlassian) is now the
minority case.**

Seven live probes across two lanes' worth of status-page infrastructure,
all in this corpus:

1. **Atlassian Statuspage** (already in this corpus, companion record):
   fixed `/api/v2/*.json` path, keyless, same shape on githubstatus.com and
   cloudflarestatus.com.
2. **incident.io**: a *different* fixed path, `/api/v1/summary`, despite
   incident.io's own docs implying the URL is opaque/per-page — live
   probing across three customer domains (status.incident.io,
   resend-status.com, status.clerk.com) found it is in fact predictable
   and consistent, with field names (`page_title`, `ongoing_incidents`)
   that share no vocabulary with Atlassian's.
3. **Better Stack**: `/index.json`, a JSON:API envelope
   (`data.attributes.company_name`, `data.attributes.aggregate_state`),
   confirmed on four domains (status.betterstack.com, status.raycast.com,
   status.modal.com, status.trigger.dev) — a third incompatible shape.
4. **Instatus**: `/v3/summary.json` + `/v3/components.json`, a fourth
   shape (`page.name`, `page.status`), confirmed on Deno's real status
   domain (denostatus.com, reached via a 301 from status.deno.com).
5. **Google Cloud** (status.cloud.google.com/incidents.json): a fifth,
   totally different shape — one flat array of full incident objects with
   nested update threads, no pagination, no "current status" field at all
   (you derive "up" by checking whether any incident's `end` is null).
6. **AWS classic RSS** (status.aws.amazon.com/rss/all.rss): RSS, not JSON,
   a sixth shape, still alive and actively populated (44 items) in 2026
   despite AWS's newer Health Dashboard UI existing in parallel —
   timestamps in `PDT`, not UTC.
7. **Azure status RSS** (azurestatuscdn.azureedge.net): RSS shape,
   genuinely empty — zero `<item>` elements, ever, while returning a
   confident 200 with fresh `Last-Modified` and valid XML on every request.
   Every HTTP-layer liveness signal (200, fresh timestamp, well-formed
   body) says this feed works; it has never reported an incident.

None of these seven shapes is derivable from another — not predicate names,
not URL suffix, not envelope depth — so "detect the status-page vendor,
then parse accordingly" is a real, unavoidable step for any agent trying to
monitor uptime across a mixed set of dependencies. And a clean 200 with
valid syntax (Azure) is not evidence the feed is actually populated with
incident history; only AWS's old, unglamorous RSS endpoint and Google
Cloud's dense flat array had real content at probe time.

How derived: cross-referenced from six sources observed live in this lane
(incident.io/Better Stack/Instatus combined record, Google Cloud, AWS RSS,
Azure RSS), 2026-10-05 UTC ~07:18-07:21, plus one already-published
Atlassian Statuspage record in this corpus used for contrast, not
re-observed.

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