SSL Certificate Monitoring: Expiry, Chains and Alerts
SSL certificate monitoring watches expiry, the chain, the hostname and the protocol. Here is the warning ladder to use now that certificates last 200 days.
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Incident Response for Uptime: Declare, Route, Resolve
Incident response for a reliability team is a rehearsed procedure: a mechanical declaration threshold, three severity levels and three named roles.
DNS Monitoring: Catch Record Drift and Outages
DNS monitoring alerts you when a record changes or stops resolving, the one failure that makes every other dashboard look perfectly healthy.
Cron Job Monitoring: From Crontab to Monitors
Cron job monitoring starts with your crontab. Here is how to turn five schedule fields into an expected period, plus the DST trap that breaks them.
Status Page Examples: Six Public Pages, Graded
Six real status page examples judged on their component lists and machine-readable endpoints rather than their design, with what each one is worth copying.
Ping Monitoring: What ICMP Checks Prove and Miss
Ping monitoring tells you an address answers ICMP, nothing more. Here is how echo requests work, what they hide, and when a TCP check is the better signal.