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Practical walkthroughs on uptime monitoring, alerting, and on-call — published regularly.

On-call

Alert Escalation for Solo Developers and Small Teams

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.

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Alerting

How to Get a Phone Call When Your Website Goes Down

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.

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Monitoring

How to Monitor a JSON-RPC or Blockchain Node's Uptime

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.

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