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Website uptime monitoring guides.
Practical explanations for keeping a website reachable, understanding failures, and choosing what to monitor.
Choose the right URLs to monitor
Build a useful set of monitors for a website and its public API, then check what each result actually proves.
5 min readRead HTTP failures without guessing
Use status codes, redirects and request errors to narrow down a failed check and decide what to inspect next.
4 min readInvestigate a downtime alert step by step
A practical incident workflow covering DNS, TLS, the proxy, the application and recovery verification.
5 min readInvestigate a rise in response time
Compare like-for-like checks, reproduce the request with curl and separate network delay from application work.
4 min readMonitor through redirects, firewalls and maintenance
Check access rules and maintenance behavior without hiding real failures or opening your application to unwanted traffic.
4 min readLooking for setup instructions? Open the documentation.
Put your first endpoint on watch.
Website or API. Start with a public URL.