Monitoring articles
Uptime checks, incident response, SLA tracking, and the parts of vendor monitoring that actually matter when something breaks.
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Multi-Cloud Monitoring Tools: How to Choose in 2026
Four categories of multi-cloud monitoring tool, what each one actually answers, and how to tell which gap you have. Includes where PulsAPI is the wrong choice.
Microservices Monitoring Strategy: From Health Checks to SLOs
A practical microservices monitoring strategy: golden signals, service-level objectives, dependency mapping, and how third-party status fits the picture.
Edge & CDN Uptime Monitoring: Cloudflare, Fastly, and Akamai in Production
How to monitor edge and CDN uptime in production: PoP-level outages, cache hit ratios, edge functions, DNS, and how regional CDN status affects your users.
Status Page Monitoring vs Uptime Monitoring: What Each One Proves
Uptime checks measure what you can reach. Status pages report what the vendor says. What each proves, where each fails, and how to read them together.
Third-Party API Monitoring Tools: What to Track Before Customers Complain
Compare what third-party API monitoring tools should track, including status pages, component health, latency, incident history, dependency impact, and alert routing.
API Uptime Monitoring: The Complete Guide
How to measure API uptime, set alert thresholds that do not cry wolf, monitor across regions, and pick an uptime checker. Includes what 99.9% actually costs you.
Synthetic Monitoring vs Real-User Monitoring: Which Do You Need?
Synthetic checks simulate user behavior 24/7; RUM captures actual user sessions. Neither is complete alone. Learn how to layer both strategies, reduce alert noise by 68%, and surface the performance regressions that matter.
Active vs Passive Monitoring: When to Use Each (and Why You Need Both)
Active monitoring sends synthetic traffic on a schedule; passive monitoring observes real traffic flowing through your stack. Learn the tradeoffs, where each one breaks down, and how to combine them for end-to-end coverage.
Black-Box vs White-Box Monitoring: An SRE Guide to Choosing the Right Lens
Black-box monitoring tests your system from the outside; white-box exposes its internals. The Google SRE distinction explained, with concrete examples, instrumentation patterns, and the failure modes each one misses.