4 minutes readKey takeaways A checker verifies chain, expiry and configuration, which are three different failure modes. An incomplete chain works in browsers and fails in clients, which is why it goes unnoticed. Automate expiry monitoring; a one-off check tells you nothing about next quarter. Ensuring that your SSL certificates are properly installed and configured is crucial… Read more »
7 minutes readKey takeaways A status page must not share infrastructure with the thing it reports on. Self-hosting gives control and gives you a page that can fail with your platform. Automate updates from monitoring, since manual pages go stale during incidents. When it comes to managing your online presence, transparency is key. Having a status page… Read more »
4 minutes readKey takeaways APM tells you what is slow in production, which load testing cannot show you. Trace quality is the real differentiator, since that is how you get from alert to cause. Pricing scales with data volume, so sampling policy matters as much as features. Application Performance Monitoring (APM) tools are essential for maintaining the… Read more »
10 minutes readKey takeaways API monitoring runs checks from outside your infrastructure, so it fails the way users do. Assert on the response body, not just the status code; a 200 with wrong data is still an outage. Open source covers the basics; paid tools mostly sell alerting, regions and retention. API Monitoring Tools are crucial for… Read more »
