Website Performance Monitoring: What to Alert On
Website performance monitoring is two jobs sharing a name. Delivery timings belong on a pager, Core Web Vitals belong on a dashboard. Here is the split.
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4 posts tagged "Latency".
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.
Response Time Monitoring: Phases, Percentiles, Regions
Response time monitoring works when you read the timing waterfall, alert on p95 instead of the mean, and compare probe regions rather than blending them.
Golden Signals: The Four SRE Metrics That Matter
Golden signals are latency, traffic, errors and saturation - the four metrics Google's SRE book says to watch when you can only watch four.