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Uptime monitoring
External checks, confirmation before alerts, and honest uptime math for teams that cannot afford noise or blind spots.
5 published guides · Pillar planned: The Complete Guide to Uptime Monitoring for Small Software Teams
Published guides
Fajita is now open source
The Fajita uptime monitoring core is now open source under AGPL-3.0. Self-host the verification engine or use Fajita Cloud for managed operation.
How Often Should You Check a Website?
Pick a website check interval that matches customer pain, not anxiety. Balance detect speed, false positives, and check budget.
How to Calculate Uptime Correctly
Uptime percent is allowed downtime divided by the measurement window. Define maintenance, check gaps, and the Measurement Contract before you publish a number.
Uptime Monitoring Versus Performance Monitoring
Uptime monitoring answers whether software works. Performance monitoring answers how fast it feels. Small teams usually need the first before the second.
Why One Failed Check Should Not Mean Downtime
One failed probe is a blip until confirmed. Learn Blip Budget thinking, verification, and when a single failure should still page you.
Coming next
- How to Monitor an Authenticated API
- How to Reduce Uptime-Monitoring False Positives
- What Should an API Health Endpoint Return?
- How to Choose Monitoring Regions