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Notes on uptime and alerting
Practical writing on monitoring, false alarms and outages, and news about StatusTick.
Product Updates · 28 Sept 2026 · 2 min read
Introducing StatusTick: Uptime Monitoring That Only Wakes You for Real Outages
Why we are building StatusTick, what it does, and how to join the beta before the Q1 2027 launch.
Technical Guide · 20 Feb 2025 · 5 min read
How to Set Up Uptime Alerts That People Don't Ignore
Starting values for confirmation, failures in a row, routing and escalation, and a 20-minute monthly review that keeps alerts useful.
Business Strategy · 10 Feb 2025 · 4 min read
How to Choose an Uptime Monitoring Tool: 12 Questions to Ask
Feature lists look the same. These twelve questions, and a one-week trial test, show how a monitoring tool behaves when something really breaks.
Industry Insights · 15 Jan 2025 · 5 min read
Why Uptime Monitoring Matters: The Failures Your Users Find First
Many outages are quiet: the server is up, and users still cannot log in or pay. What these failures look like, and which check catches each one.
Business Strategy · 10 Jan 2025 · 4 min read
How to Work Out What Downtime Costs Your Business
Industry averages tell you little about your own business. Here is a simple way to estimate what an hour of downtime costs you, with two worked examples.
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