API Monitoring: Assertions Beyond a 200 OK
API monitoring only earns its place when the check asserts on the response body, not just the status code. Here is the assertion set to start with.
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Maintenance Window: Plan One Without False Alerts
A maintenance window is announced downtime you control. Here is how to size it, suppress the right alerts, and keep the data you will need later.
Heartbeat Monitoring: Catch Jobs That Never Ran
Heartbeat monitoring waits for your cron job to check in, then alerts when the signal never arrives. Here is how to size the grace period.
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.
Alert Fatigue: How to Cut Your Page Count
Alert fatigue is a volume problem with a number attached. Count pages per responder per week, then use four levers to cut the ones nobody acts on.
Blackbox Monitoring: What the Outside View Sees
Blackbox monitoring tests a service from outside with no access to its internals, which is how you catch DNS, TLS and routing failures.