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Practical guides and articles on uptime monitoring, alerting and incident management, written by the team building LucidStack.
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Uptime monitoring checklist for web agencies
An uptime monitoring checklist for web agencies: what to check when onboarding a client site, alert routing, status pages, reports and maintenance.
How to avoid false positive alerts with multi-region checks
What causes false positive uptime alerts, how multi-region outage confirmation works, and the settings that keep your alerts trustworthy, with a checklist.
How to monitor SSL certificate and domain name expiry
SSL/TLS certificates and domain names: why they still expire, how to check them with openssl and RDAP, and which alert schedule to use.
Incident postmortem: what to include (with a template)
What to put in an incident postmortem: blameless culture, impact in numbers, timeline, root cause, tracked action items and a ready-to-copy template.
SLA, SLO and SLI: understanding and calculating uptime
SLA, SLO and SLI explained: the uptime formula, allowed downtime from 99% to 99.99%, error budgets, composite uptime and how to write SLA clauses.
How to set up a status page on your own domain
Run a status page on status.yourdomain.com: what to show, the CNAME record, checking DNS with dig, automatic HTTPS, subscribers and incident updates.
Why monitor your website from multiple regions
A single probe only sees one path to your site. Blind spots, outage confirmation and per-region response times: why multi-region monitoring matters.
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