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What to watch,and why it matters.

Short, specific, and honest about what each one will not catch. Written for someone running production without a monitoring team.

Guides

5 min · no prior setup

Get a real alert on your phone in five minutes

Signup to a verified alert on your own phone, using one URL and the free plan. The point is to prove the delivery path before you depend on it.

10 min · you have a Stripe account

Know when Stripe payments start failing

Payment failures are the most expensive silent outage a small product can have. What to watch, what Stripe already tells you, and where the gap is.

8 min · you have a Supabase project

What to watch on a Supabase project

Supabase is several services behind one URL. Which parts fail independently, what its own dashboard tells you, and what to do about the rest.

10 min · you run Lambdas

Monitoring AWS Lambda without alarm sprawl

What is worth alerting on for a Lambda, what is only worth collecting, and how to avoid maintaining alarms per function per metric.

7 min · conceptual

The failures that return HTTP 200

Most damaging outages never touch your status code. A field guide to the failure modes uptime monitoring structurally cannot see, and what does catch them.

9 min · you have an Atlas cluster

What to watch on MongoDB Atlas

Atlas rarely goes down. It degrades — slowly, on one node, in ways your application reports as its own fault. What to watch, and what Atlas already tells you.

Something missing?

These are written from the questions people actually ask. If yours is not here, say so — it is a short list and it moves.