Notes on API and vendor monitoring
Uptime checks, incident response, SLA tracking, and the parts of vendor monitoring that actually matter when something breaks.
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On-Call Best Practices: Setting Up Third-Party Outage Alerts That Actually Work
Most on-call setups only alert on your own infrastructure. Here's how to extend your alerting to cover the third-party services your stack depends on, without drowning in noise.
The Missing Layer in Your Observability Stack: Third-Party Cloud Dependencies
You have logs, metrics, and traces covered. But most observability stacks have a blind spot: the cloud services your application depends on but doesn't control.
How to Calculate the Real Business Cost of Third-Party Cloud Downtime
Lost revenue, support overhead, engineering time, and customer trust. Here's a practical framework for calculating what vendor outages actually cost your business, and why that number matters.
GitHub Is Down: How Engineering Teams Stay Productive During Outages
GitHub outages happen a few times per year and typically last 30 minutes to 4 hours. Here's how to detect them early, keep your team productive, and minimize deployment delays.
Alert Fatigue Is Killing Your On-Call Culture, Here's How to Fix It
Too many alerts, too little signal. Here's a practical framework for reducing alert noise from third-party monitoring without missing the incidents that actually matter.
About PulsAPI: Our Mission and Story
PulsAPI was born from a simple frustration, too many status pages, not enough signal. Here's our story.
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.
How to Build a Status Page That Actually Builds Trust
A status page is your first line of communication during an incident. Learn the anatomy of a trust-building status page, what to show, when to update, and how to write incident messages that reassure instead of alarm.
Incident Response Runbooks: A Template for Zero-Panic Outages
When the alert fires at 2 AM, you don't want to think, you want to follow a script. We've compiled battle-tested runbook templates from 50+ engineering teams, distilled into a single framework you can deploy today.