Practical guides on uptime monitoring, alert escalation, and on-call workflows — written by the team building failover.io. If you run something that can't quietly go down, start here.
Practical walkthroughs on uptime monitoring, alerting, and on-call — published regularly.
Escalation isn't just for big ops teams. This guide covers how a one-person or small team can build an alert chain that reliably reaches a human — without buying enterprise on-call software.
Read the guide →Email and Slack alerts are easy to sleep through. This guide covers why a ringing phone is the most reliable way to catch a 3 a.m. outage, the options for setting it up, and the trade-offs of each.
Read the guide →A node can return HTTP 200 and still be broken — stalled, out of sync, or erroring inside the JSON body. This guide covers what to actually check and how to monitor an RPC endpoint properly.
Read the guide →5 monitors, 60-second checks, all 8 free-tier channels. No credit card. Commercial use allowed.
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