Monitoring: guides

Uptime, SLAs, health checks and incident metrics: the language of monitoring and reliability.

Guide · MonitoringA Blameless Incident Postmortem Template With a Worked ExampleWrite a blameless incident postmortem that drives real fixes: timeline, root cause vs contributing factors, 5 whys limits, a copy-paste template and an example.10 min readGuide · MonitoringAlert Fatigue and On-Call Basics for Small TeamsSet severity levels, escalation paths, alert thresholds and runbooks so a small team gets paged for real problems only and still sleeps through the night.8 min readGuide · MonitoringCron Job Heartbeat Monitoring to Catch Silent Failures EarlyLearn how heartbeat monitoring catches silent cron failures, with copy-ready examples for crontab, systemd, GitHub Actions, Docker, WP-Cron, Laravel and more.9 min readGuide · MonitoringDDoS Basics for Website Owners: Symptoms, Triage and ProtectionWhat a DDoS attack is, how to tell it from a legitimate traffic spike, and the basic defenses (CDN, WAF, rate limiting) plus what to tell your hosting provider.8 min readGuide · MonitoringHow Often Should You Monitor a Website? Choosing Check IntervalsPick the right uptime check interval for each part of your site. See how interval, retries and alert delay combine into real detection time, and what to avoid.8 min readGuide · MonitoringHow to Monitor API Endpoints: Status, JSON Checks, Latency and CronSet up reliable API monitoring: choose endpoints, validate status and JSON fields, handle auth headers safely, track latency and watch scheduled jobs.8 min readGuide · MonitoringHow to Reduce False Alerts in Website Monitoring Without GapsStop false uptime alerts without losing real ones: confirmation checks, retries, timeouts, WAF blocks, keyword checks, maintenance windows and slow alerts.9 min readGuide · MonitoringSet Up a Free Status Page for Your Small Business (Step by Step)Create a free public status page that shows customers whether your website is up, with plain steps for choosing components, connecting monitors and writing updates.7 min readGuide · MonitoringSLA Uptime Calculation: Exclusions, Credits and How to Write OneHow hosting providers calculate SLA uptime, what exclusions and service credits mean in practice, and how agencies should word an SLA they can actually meet.7 min readGuide · MonitoringStatus Page Message Templates: Incident and Maintenance ExamplesCopy-ready status page messages for investigating, identified, monitoring and resolved updates and planned maintenance, with tone rules and worked examples.8 min readGuide · MonitoringSynthetic vs Real User Monitoring: Differences and When to Use EachCompare synthetic monitoring and real user monitoring (RUM), what each can and cannot see, when to use which, and how to get both with free options.8 min readGuide · MonitoringUptime Monitoring for Small Business - What to Check First and WhyA practical plan for small businesses: what to monitor first, how to route alerts, a first-response runbook, budget options and checks not worth setting up.8 min readGuide · MonitoringWebsite Maintenance Mode Done Right With 503 and Retry-AfterPut your site into maintenance mode correctly with a 503 and Retry-After. Examples for WordPress, Laravel, nginx and Apache, plus CDN caching and SEO pitfalls.8 min readGuide · MonitoringWebsite Status Page Guide - What to Publish and How to Word UpdatesLearn what a good status page contains, how to structure components and word investigating, identified, monitoring and resolved updates, with templates.8 min readGuide · MonitoringWhat 99.9% Uptime Really Means in Minutes, Hours and Days per YearA clear guide to uptime percentages with an exact downtime table for 99% to 99.999%, plus SLA vs SLO, measured vs reported uptime and check frequency.8 min read