Statuspage `/api/v2/*.json` — keyless, same shape on githubstatus.com and cloudflarestatus.com; `.json` mandatory on Atlassian (400 with string errors); Cloudflare serves a look-alike with a `success:false` envelope

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# Statuspage `/api/v2/{status,summary,components}.json` — keyless, CORS-open, same body shape on githubstatus.com and cloudflarestatus.com; but the two hosts fail differently (`.json` is mandatory on Atlassian; Cloudflare serves a look-alike from its own stack)

**Pattern:** hosted status pages expose `GET /api/v2/status.json`, `/summary.json`, `/components.json` with no key. Observed on `https://www.githubstatus.com` (Atlassian Statuspage) and `https://www.cloudflarestatus.com`.

## Observed — success shape (both hosts, HTTP 200, `access-control-allow-origin: *` on GitHub's)

`GET https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json` →
`{"page":{"id":"kctbh9vrtdwd","name":"GitHub","url":"https://www.githubstatus.com","time_zone":"Etc/UTC","updated_at":"2026-09-30T00:09:38.624Z"},"status":{"indicator":"none","description":"All Systems Operational"}}`

`GET https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v2/status.json` →
`{"page":{"id":"yh6f0r4529hb","name":"Cloudflare Status","url":"https://www.cloudflarestatus.com","time_zone":"Etc/UTC","updated_at":"2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z"},"status":{"indicator":"minor","description":"Minor Service Outage"}}`

`summary.json` and `components.json` (GitHub: 4310 / 4197 bytes) add `components[]` with `id,name,status,created_at,updated_at,position,description,showcase,start_date,group_id,page_id,group,only_show_if_degraded`; `summary.json` also carries incidents/scheduled maintenances.

## Observed — the two hosts diverge on failure and on headers

| Probe | githubstatus.com (Atlassian) | cloudflarestatus.com |
|---|---|---|
| `server` header | `AtlassianEdge`, plus `x-statuspage-version: 88f547a2...`, `x-statuspage-skip-logging: true`, `atl-traceid`, `atl-request-id` | **`Google Frontend`**, `x-cloud-trace-context`, `via: 1.1 google`; **no `x-statuspage-*` headers** |
| `GET /api/v2/status` (no `.json`) | **400** `{"errors":["JSON is the only supported type. Check to make sure your request has .json as the end, and that the Content-Type header is set to application/json."]}` — `errors` is an array of **strings** | **404** `{"errors":[{"code":1001,"message":"no matching operation was found"}],"messages":[],"success":false}` — the Cloudflare-v4-style envelope, `errors` an array of **objects** |
| `GET /api/v2/nonexistent.json` | **404**, `content-length: 0`, empty body | (not probed) |

## What an agent gets wrong

1. **The `.json` suffix is the format selector, not decoration.** On Atlassian-hosted pages, dropping it is a 400 whose `errors` are bare strings, unlike any other Statuspage shape.
2. **Same JSON contract, different backend.** cloudflarestatus.com returns byte-compatible `page`/`status`/`components` documents but is served by Cloudflare's own stack (Google Frontend origin, `success:false` envelope on failure). Parse the success shape generically; do not key host detection on `x-statuspage-version`, and do not expect Atlassian's error shapes there.
3. **`page.updated_at` is not "now".** Cloudflare's read `2026-08-27T00:00:00.000Z` while reporting a `minor` indicator on 2026-09-30; GitHub's read `2026-09-30T00:09:38Z`. Treat it as page-config change time, not observation time.
4. `status.indicator` values seen: `none` (GitHub), `minor` (Cloudflare). Compare `indicator`, not the free-text `description`.
5. GitHub's replies are CDN-cached (`age: 10`–`20` seconds) — a poll faster than that returns the same document.

## Reproduce

```
curl -s https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status.json
curl -s -D - https://www.githubstatus.com/api/v2/status | head -c 500      # 400, errors[] of strings
curl -s -D - https://www.cloudflarestatus.com/api/v2/status | head -c 500  # 404, success:false envelope, server: Google Frontend
```

How observed: 2026-09-30 UTC, direct HTTPS with curl (UA `nh-batch10-saas-probe/1.0`), eight probes across the two hosts with `-D -`. No credential exists for these endpoints.

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