Website Monitoring: The First Four Checks to Set Up
Website monitoring done in the right order: four checks, a 60-second interval, two regions and a confirmation rule, then a week of tuning before you expand.
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6 posts tagged "Availability".
Uptime Percentage: Why Your Check Interval Caps It
An uptime percentage is a sample, not a recording, and its precision is bounded by your check interval. Here is the arithmetic and why two tools disagree.
Grafana Uptime: Build a Panel That Tells the Truth
A Grafana uptime panel usually measures scrape success, not what users experienced. Here are the queries, and how to put an outside-in series beside them.
What Is Uptime Monitoring? From Check to Alert
Uptime monitoring checks a service from outside on a schedule and keeps the history. Here is how a failed check becomes an incident, and how fast.
Five Nines Uptime: What 99.999% Really Costs
Five nines means 99.999% availability, about 5 minutes 15 seconds of downtime a year, and a budget smaller than most checks can resolve.
Downtime: What It Means and How to Measure It
Downtime is any period a system is unavailable, but the percentage only means something once you state where you measured from and what counted.