Reminds me of the (possibly apocryphal) monitoring that was in place when Healthcare.gov was launched: they had a TV tuned to the news, and the news would tell them whenever the site crashed!
Oh hey, that was basically my job! After getting out of grad school, I worked overnight for an HHS contractor writing media summaries for the Secretary. Every night, we would gather all the news stories about the topics HHS told us they wanted to track. At 6:00am, we'd publish the Secretary's briefing and at 7:30am we'd publish the org-wide briefing. To this day, I possess more trivia about the Healthcare.gov launch than I will ever need for any conceivable reason.
