Website Monitoring

Website checks show what a visitor can reach; server metrics help explain what is happening...

Choose a monitoring interval and sensitivity based on how quickly the business needs to detect...

A website monitor should check something that represents a working service. A server can return...

Use response-time changes to identify which part of the request became slower. A monitoring...

Review monitoring whenever a site, server, owner or provider changes. An old monitor can remain...

A TCP monitor checks whether an endpoint accepts a connection on a chosen port. Use it for a...

Use a scheduled maintenance window when planned work would otherwise generate expected alarms....

A status page should show service information customers can understand without exposing...

An effective alert tells the right person what failed and gives them enough context to act. Too...

Set server alerts from a realistic understanding of the workload. A useful threshold identifies...

An actionable certificate check combines the public expiry information with a named renewal...

Test monitoring contacts before relying on them during an outage. A correctly configured...

A content check can detect a website that returns a successful HTTP response while showing the...