Last week, Microsoft Fabric went down yet again for hours on multiple continents.
Oh, you didn’t hear about it? Let’s talk about why.
First, Fabric’s status page is fabricated bullshit. The link https://aka.ms/fabricsupport takes you to a localized status page that almost always shows all green checkmarks – even when the service is on fire. During last month’s 12+hour overnight outage, people were screaming on Reddit overnight that things were down, but the status dashboard was showing all green. When Microsoft employees woke up, they asked if people were still having problems – and then eventually got around to updating