Monitor Your AI Inference Endpoints — vLLM, Ollama, Replicate, and Beyond
Inference is 55% of AI cloud spend. vLLM /health only confirms the process is running — not that models are loaded. Here's how to monitor the full AI stack.
Monitor Your SaaS Dependencies Before They Take You Down
Stripe had a 2hr 15min outage. SendGrid had 14 incidents in 90 days. Monitoring tools caught 101 incidents vendors never reported.
Monitor Your Staging and UAT Servers — Before They Break Your Sprint
Staging breaks silently. QA starts their day, staging is down, sprint blocked. Here's how to catch it before standup.
Monitor Supabase, Neon, and Turso — Your Database Can Scale to Zero and Not Come Back
Serverless databases scale to zero. That spin-up can fail. Fauna shut down entirely. Here's how to monitor the new database stack.
IoT Heartbeat Monitoring: Know When Your Devices Go Silent
AWS IoT Events shuts down May 2026. The heartbeat pattern — device pings a URL, alert if it stops — is simpler and works everywhere.
Game Server Monitoring — Know When Your Palworld, Minecraft, or Valheim Server Crashes
Self-hosted game servers crash at 3 AM. TCP port checks, Discord alerts, and heartbeat monitoring keep your community happy.
Monitor Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, and Serverless Functions From the Outside
You can't SSH into an edge function. External HTTP checks are the only way to know your serverless stack is actually working.
Cron Job Monitoring: Know When Your Background Jobs Stop Running
Cron jobs fail silently. The heartbeat pattern — ping a URL on completion, alert if it stops — catches failures before data goes stale.
Monitor Your MCP Servers — The New Microservices
1,600+ MCP servers and counting. If your MCP server goes down, Claude loses its tools mid-conversation. Here's how to monitor them.
Monitor Your Coolify, Railway, and Fly.io Deployments
PaaS platforms abstract infrastructure but still go down. "Git push and pray" is not a monitoring strategy.
Monitor Your Ethereum and Solana RPC Endpoints
A healthy RPC endpoint has error rates below 0.1%. Block lag means stale prices in your DeFi app. Here's how to verify your provider's SLA.
Why 84% of Teams Are Replacing Datadog With Simpler Monitoring
84% of teams are actively reducing observability costs. Most don't need full APM — they need to know if their site is up.
Monitor Internal Tools Behind Tailscale and Zero-Trust Networks
Internal tools break silently. Nobody notices until a support agent can't look up a customer. Here's how to monitor private endpoints.
Status Pages That Build Customer Trust — Why Every SaaS Needs One
Customers forgive downtime. They don't forgive silence. A public status page turns panic into transparency.
AWS IoT Events Is Shutting Down — Here's Your Migration Path
AWS IoT Events discontinued May 20, 2026. Replace 5 AWS services with 1 HTTP heartbeat request. Migration guide inside.
How We Built Unlimited Self-Hosted Email Delivery on the BEAM
From 3,000/month ESP limits to unlimited — Stalwart, gen_smtp connection reuse, dynamic process fleets, fuse circuit breakers, and :pg cross-node routing. Six problems, six BEAM-native solutions.
How We Built Multi-Region Check Consensus on the BEAM
Checks from 3 continents must agree before alerting. Zero external dependencies — just OTP primitives. GenServer-per-monitor, Gun, and pg process groups.
7 Best Free Uptime Monitoring Tools in 2026 (Tested & Compared)
We tested the top free uptime monitoring tools. Compare check intervals, alert channels, false alarm handling, and what each free plan actually gives you.
Why Most Uptime Alerts Are Noise — And How to Fix It
Your phone buzzes at 3am. DNS timeout. By the time you open your laptop, it's already resolved. Here's why consecutive-check confirmation changes everything.
Uptime Monitoring for Indie Hackers — What You Actually Need
You don't need Datadog. You need simple, free monitoring that doesn't wake you up for nothing.
What Is a Good Uptime SLA? 99.9% vs 99.99% Explained
What those nines actually mean in real downtime minutes, and how your monitoring interval affects detection.
How Website Downtime Affects Your SEO Rankings
Google crawl errors during downtime can deindex your pages. Here's how monitoring helps prevent SEO damage.
Why We Chose BEAM for Uptime Monitoring
When your monitoring tool goes down, who monitors the monitor? We chose a runtime that was designed to never go down.