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.
8 posts tagged "Uptime".
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.
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.
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.
Free uptime monitoring is an allowance of checks per hour, regions and retention. Here is how the September 2026 free tiers really compare, and what they cut.
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.
Uptime monitoring tools compared on five decisions: check type, interval, confirmation, alert routing and status page, with vendor figures from September 2026.