Google has multiple internal alerting systems and people are aware of any disruption/delay/anomaly from the minute it happens.
The on-caller for the specific service decides on how to produce.
The status dashboard is something which will be (manually, yes by hand) updated by an operations employee, who is a couple of layers behind the actual SWE/SRE who gets the page.
The on-caller for the specific service decides on how to produce.
The status dashboard is something which will be (manually, yes by hand) updated by an operations employee, who is a couple of layers behind the actual SWE/SRE who gets the page.