A marathon runner who trains obsessively on a flat track will have beautiful split times right up until race day when they discover the actual course has hills. Although the preparation was real, their strategy was flawed.

This plays out in SLO teams more than anyone likes to admit. At first, numbers look fine and nothing has been trigg...

Free website monitoring tools can be genuinely useful. They're the right starting point for a side project, a small business website, or a team that just wants to know when their homepage goes down. But "free" always comes with trade-offs, and those trade-offs have a habit of revealing themselves at the worst possible moment: peak...

A few years ago, this was just part of doing business online. Today, it’s a problem you can avoid, thanks to artificial intelligence. We’ve quietly reached an important turning point in website monitoring.

For most of the internet’s history, monitoring meant setting thresholds: set a number, wait for it to be crossed, get an alert, and ...

Before getting into specific recommendations, it is worth separating the two distinct threats that network admins need to monitor for, because most tools handle one well and the other poorly.

Resolution failures are operational. A nameserver goes down. A zone transfer breaks. A record expires. A propagation delay means half your users i...

Without Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) monitoring, your digital experience monitoring (DEM) stack can't detect the route hijacks, leaks, or instability that prevent users from reaching your applications. Most DEM stacks miss this entirely, and that gap is where some of the most damaging, hardest-to-diagnose outages happen.

Every plan...

Most of the time, the culprit is invisible: a broken DNS record. When DNS works, nobody notices. But when it breaks, everything breaks — regardless of how healthy your infrastructure is underneath.

DNS breaks more often than most teams expect. Yet many teams still find out about DNS failures from users, not dashboards.

A multi-homed website is hosted behind servers connected to two or more internet providers, each with its own IP address. DNS rotates traffic between those IPs—and that rotation is exactly what makes standard monitoring unreliable.

Think of it this way: your monitoring tool checks "yourwebsite.com," DNS picks an IP at random, an...