Notification on affected droplets during Emergency Maintenance
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Greg Corrigan
I had a server running on a hypervisor that needed emergency maintenance. I had no way to know this was happening, so I was desperately trying for two hours, to get my droplet back online with REBOOT and POWEROFF requests. I would have had a lot less stress and panic if Engineering had some mechanism that let's admins know when a hypervisor goes down/is being emergency serviced. Like, in the Droplet panel, a red flag "EMERGENCY MAINTENANCE" would have (1) not made me think I tripped the server up (I was using it when it was disappeared), (2) Prevented a ticket (or I assume a flood of tickets), (3) Stopped me from trying multiple REBOOT and POWEROFFs which would make stabilizing the server more difficult for engineering during the crisis (I run my own in-house server room, I understand that side of the business on a smaller scale).
Seems very doable given you know who has what, eh? And obviuosly the Droplet UI is not tied DIRECTLY to the hypervisor box.