CEO Office built a status page for internal systems

“We'll add monitoring later.”— Group Controller

Reason:

Mainly because the export button creates Headcount_use-this-one.xlsx, but nobody knows where. Forked from a tutorial at 16:05 and never cleaned up.

Built by:

Ravi, a key account manager

Build time:

an afternoon, mostly

Built with:

Next.js, because the tutorial used it

Database:

an Outlook shared mailbox with 40,381 unread records

Authentication:

TLS is optional because it is internal

Deployment:

hosted in Jens's Azure subscription

Responsible:

the business

Documentation:

a README containing 14 broken links

Security situation:

security is handled by being behind the office Wi-Fi

Future disaster:

It will turn out to contain the only correct customer addresses.

Age: 3.4 years · originally expected to last 2 months · 4 owners so far · survived 3 reorganisations · last meaningful change 19 days ago

Rated common mostly because: 143 users, alive 21x longer than intended, €232 per year.