Monitoring & Uptime

Uptime Monitoring & Alerting

3 min read Site Reliability & Maintenance Lifecycle

Watch the platform continuously and get notified the moment something breaks.

Learning objectives

  • Choose what to monitor and why
  • Configure meaningful alerts
  • Understand uptime reporting

What to monitor

  • Availability: is the site reachable?
  • Performance: response times and resource usage.
  • Errors: server logs and application exceptions.
  • Security: failed logins, unexpected file changes.

Alerts that matter

Alert fatigue destroys the value of monitoring. Alert on actionable conditions and tune thresholds so that every page to a human has a decision attached to it.

Uptime in practice

High availability is measured over a quarter: 99.9% uptime allows about 43 minutes of downtime per month. Monitoring tells you whether you are meeting the target - and what failed when you did not.

Key takeaways

  • Monitor availability, performance, errors, and security.
  • Alerts should demand action, not just attention.
  • Uptime is a measurable SLA, tracked over time.