Sean [1,064 words, 6 minute read time] Uptime monitoring tells you when your site is unavailable. But some of the most damaging incidents don’t involve downtime at all: Not every incident is downtime—some are silent. That’s where website change monitoring comes in. This guide explains what change monitoring is (and isn’t), what pages to watch, how … Read more
[1,222 words, 6 minute read time] Most teams think “the website is down” means hosting or code. But a surprising number of outages start somewhere else entirely: DNS problems masquerade as hosting or “random outages.” DNS and domain failures create the classic chaos: This guide explains DNS monitoring (and domain monitoring) in practical terms: what … Read more
[1,169 words, 6 minute read time] When an SSL/TLS certificate fails, users don’t think “hmm, a certificate problem.” They think: “The site is down.” Browsers throw scary warnings, apps refuse connections, and many users bounce immediately. That’s why SSL monitoring (certificate expiration monitoring + TLS error detection) is one of the highest-ROI checks you can … Read more
[1,315 words, 7 minute read time] If you run a SaaS product, your API is the product—at least for some percentage of customers. And APIs fail in a way that classic “ping the server” monitoring simply won’t catch: APIs can be “up” but failing—validate what matters. This guide explains API uptime monitoring for technical teams: … Read more
[1,057 words, 6 minute read time] A monitoring setup that’s perfect for a blog is dangerously incomplete for a SaaS product. And a “standard” uptime check that works for a SaaS might be overkill (and noisy) for a small content site. Monitoring priorities should match business impact. This guide gives you a practical website monitoring … Read more
[1,094 words, 6 minute read time] If you monitor only your homepage, you’re protecting… your homepage. Homepage uptime doesn’t protect revenue—checkout does. Ecommerce fails in ways that general uptime checks won’t catch: This guide shows how to set up ecommerce monitoring that matches revenue impact: what flows to monitor, what you can test safely, how … Read more
[1,202 words, 6 minute read time] WordPress sites fail in a uniquely WordPress way: the server might be responding, the homepage might even return 200 OK, and your uptime monitor might say “UP”… while real visitors see a blank screen, a login loop, a broken checkout, or a cached error page. WP “up” can still … Read more
[1,133 words, 6 minute read time] Monitoring one site is easy. Monitoring 10, 50, or 200 client sites is where most agencies and freelancers hit the same wall: alert chaos. The fix isn’t a fancier tool—it’s a simple system: Scale monitoring without drowning in alerts. This guide gives you a practical, repeatable approach for agency … Read more
[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