Self-Hosted or SaaS Monitoring: Deciding Honestly
The build-versus-buy argument for monitoring has one asymmetry that decides it more often than cost: monitoring that shares infrastructure with the thing it watches.
Heartbeat Monitoring vs Uptime Monitoring: When to Use Which
Both tell you something is broken, but they point in opposite directions and catch different failures. A practical guide to which one belongs on which part of your system.
The Costs of Monitoring That Do Not Appear on the Invoice
The subscription is usually the smallest line. Configuration decay, alert noise and interrupted nights cost more, and none of them appear in a budget review.
What Is Uptime Monitoring, Really?
A plain explanation of how uptime checks work under the hood, what a check actually proves, and the assumptions that make an uptime number meaningful or meaningless.
What 99.9% Uptime Actually Means (And Why Your SLA Might Be Meaningless)
The nines table everyone quotes, what an availability number leaves out, and the four questions that decide whether an uptime figure is information or marketing.
Synthetic Monitoring and Real User Monitoring Do Different Jobs
One tells you whether a known path works right now. The other tells you what your users actually experienced. Neither substitutes for the other.