Keep It Up – Cookie Clicker, for Uptime

Keep It Up, a game by Simple Observability Keep It Up Click the server to keep uptime at 100%. High uptime grows your users, which earns budget to buy automation that clicks for you. Climb through six stages of infrastructure while surviving surprise mandates. Drop below 90% and you're fired.

New game

Stage advanced

New target: c/s

Uptime HEALTHY 100 %

WAU 100 +0/s

Budget $ 0 +$0/s

📭 No active mandates Enjoy the quiet

📋

0.0 c/s

Target 2.0 c/s

Automation 0.0 c/s

Anxious intern ???? $300

Paid in LinkedIn laurels to stare at the logs. +0.2 clicks/sec

Ancient bash script ???? $1,500

Written by a guy named Dave in 2016. Nobody dares to modify it. You trust it. +0.5 clicks/sec

Uptime SaaS ???? $7,200

Sends a Slack alert 5 minutes after your CEO has emailed you complaining that he has a demo in 5 minutes. +1 clicks/sec

Self-hosted monitoring ???? $36,000

You now spend half your day repairing the servers that monitor your servers. +2 clicks/sec

Managed observability ???? $210,000

Metrics and logs hosted by someone else. The monthly bill is higher than your yearly salary. +5 clicks/sec

AI SRE ???? $1,200,000

Hallucinates shell commands directly into production. Terrifying but effective. +12 clicks/sec

Ex-FAANG consultant ???? $9,000,000

Charges $500/hr to complain about your architecture. The servers run faster out of fear. +30 clicks/sec

Literal chaos monkey ???? $72,000,000

An actual macaque with SSH keys randomly unplugging racks to test your resilience. +80 clicks/sec

Keep It Up Click the server to keep uptime at 100%. High uptime grows your users, which earns budget to buy automation that clicks for you. Climb through six stages of infrastructure while surviving surprise mandates. Drop below 90% and you're fired.

Click the server to hold uptime at 100%.

Buy automation so hires and tools click for you.

Mandates spike the target rate. Survive them.

Grow WAU through 6 stages. Below 90% uptime, you're fired.

Continue Start game

FIRED

Max WAU

Stage reached

Months survived

Play again

Keep It Up – Cookie Clicker, for Uptime

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