[1,110 words, 6 minute read time] If you’re scaling beyond “email me when the site is down,” integrations become the difference between fast recovery and alert chaos. Here’s the core idea: Integrations are about routing responsibility. A good integration setup ensures: This guide covers the most common uptime monitoring integrations—Slack, Microsoft Teams, PagerDuty/Opsgenie-style escalation tools, … Read more
[1,081 words, 6 minute read time] Teams love dashboards. Stakeholders love single numbers. And that’s exactly how reliability metrics go wrong. Metrics should change behavior, not decorate dashboards. This guide explains the uptime metrics that actually matter—SLA, SLO, MTTR, and error budgets—with plain-language examples, simple calculators, and reporting templates you can use immediately. (If you … Read more
[1,205 words, 6 minute read time] A status page is a simple promise: when something breaks, we’ll tell you what’s happening, what’s impacted, and when we’ll update you again. Used well, a status page reduces support tickets, prevents rumor spirals, and increases trust—especially for SaaS, ecommerce, and agencies. Used poorly, it becomes a ghost town … Read more
[1,271 words, 7 minute read time] A “site down” alert triggers adrenaline for a reason: downtime threatens revenue, trust, and your sanity. But the fastest way to make an outage worse is to jump straight into random debugging. Triage first, diagnose second, fix third. This guide is a practical incident response playbook for small teams, … Read more
[1,132 words, 6 minute read time] False positives—uptime monitor false alarms—are the fastest way to make monitoring useless. If your team is getting “DOWN” alerts when the site is fine, you’ll eventually do the worst possible thing: ignore alerts. The good news: most false alerts are fixable with 5 settings. Once you tune them, you … Read more
[1,251 words, 7 minute read time] Uptime alerts are only “good” if they lead to the right action at the right time. If your team is getting spammed, missing real incidents, or waking up for false alarms, the problem usually isn’t the monitoring tool—it’s the alert design. Alerts should trigger action, not anxiety. This guide … Read more