--- title: Monitoring — page 2 of 2 description: 40 Monitoring articles — guides and explainers from the WatchFor team. canonical: https://watchfor.io/blog/category/monitoring/page/2 --- [All posts](/blog) # Monitoring — page 2 Guides, how-tos, and updates on Monitoring. [All](/blog)[Monitoring](/blog/category/monitoring)[Networking](/blog/category/networking)[Performance](/blog/category/performance)[Security](/blog/category/security)[Reliability](/blog/category/reliability)[Email](/blog/category/email)[DevOps](/blog/category/devops)[Engineering](/blog/category/engineering) [All articles](/blog/all) 40 article s · page 2 of 2 [MonitoringJun 24, 2026 ## Status Page Best Practices: turning your worst day into trust A status page is the one place customers look when things go wrong — and most are an afterthought. Here's how to run one that deflects tickets, calms users, and quietly earns trust during an outage.WatchFor Team4 min read](/blog/status-page-best-practices)[MonitoringJun 23, 2026 ## Uptime Monitoring 101: how to never be the last to know The worst way to find out your website is down is from an angry customer. This is the beginner-friendly guide to uptime monitoring — what it is, why it matters, and how to set it up so you always hear it first.WatchFor Team6 min read](/blog/uptime-monitoring-101)[MonitoringJun 06, 2026 ## Synthetic vs Real User Monitoring (RUM): what's the difference? Synthetic monitoring and RUM answer two different questions about your site. Here's what each one does, where each shines, and why the best setups use both.WatchFor Team4 min read](/blog/synthetic-vs-real-user-monitoring)[MonitoringJun 03, 2026 ## API Monitoring Guide: how to watch the endpoints your business runs on Your website can be perfectly up while your API quietly fails — and APIs power the integrations, apps and partners you can't see. Here's how to monitor them properly.WatchFor Team4 min read](/blog/api-monitoring-guide)[MonitoringMay 30, 2026 ## What is 99.9% Uptime? The downtime hiding behind the nines “99.9% uptime” sounds almost perfect — until you do the maths. Here's exactly how much downtime each level of nines allows, how it's calculated, and how to pick a target you can actually hit.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/what-is-99-9-percent-uptime)[MonitoringMay 23, 2026 ## Website Downtime: the most common causes (and how to prevent each) Most outages aren't mysterious — they come from the same short list of causes, again and again. Here's that list, what each one looks like, and how to stop it taking your site down.WatchFor Team4 min read](/blog/website-downtime-causes)[MonitoringMay 20, 2026 ## Observability vs Monitoring: what's the difference (and do you need both)? Monitoring tells you something broke. Observability helps you figure out why. Here's how the two differ, where each fits, and why modern teams lean on both.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/observability-vs-monitoring)[MonitoringApr 18, 2026 ## Webhooks 101: what they are and how to use them A webhook is how one app says 'hey, this just happened' to another — instantly, without anyone asking. Here's what webhooks are, how they differ from polling, and how to use them well.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/webhooks-101)[MonitoringApr 01, 2026 ## Rate Limiting & HTTP 429 Explained Rate limiting is how services protect themselves from too many requests — and HTTP 429 is how they say 'slow down'. Here's how it works, and how to handle it gracefully on both sides.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/rate-limiting-explained)[MonitoringMar 02, 2026 ## CORS Errors Explained (and how to fix them) Every web developer meets the dreaded 'blocked by CORS policy' error. It's not a bug — it's a security feature. Here's what CORS is, why the browser blocks your request, and how to fix it properly.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/cors-errors-explained)[MonitoringFeb 20, 2026 ## How to Monitor a Website (a step-by-step guide) Monitoring your website sounds technical, but the essentials take minutes. Here's a plain, step-by-step guide to going from 'I hope it's up' to 'I'll know the second it isn't'.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/how-to-monitor-a-website)[MonitoringFeb 18, 2026 ## Server Monitoring Basics: CPU, memory, disk and network Before an app falls over, the server usually shows it coming. Here are the four resources to always watch — and what 'healthy' versus 'about to break' looks like for each.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/server-monitoring-basics)[MonitoringFeb 16, 2026 ## Database Monitoring: what to watch (and why) When the database struggles, everything that depends on it struggles too — usually as timeouts and slow pages. Here's what to monitor so the DB never becomes your silent bottleneck.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/database-monitoring)[MonitoringFeb 12, 2026 ## Keyword Monitoring: catching the '200 OK but broken' page A page can return a perfect 200 OK and still be completely broken. Keyword monitoring checks the actual content — so a blank page, an error, or a defacement doesn't slip past your checks.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/keyword-monitoring)[MonitoringFeb 10, 2026 ## Monitoring Microservices: seeing health across many moving parts Microservices trade one big app for dozens of small ones — and turn one dashboard into a puzzle. Here's how to monitor a distributed system without drowning in noise.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/monitoring-microservices)[MonitoringFeb 08, 2026 ## Monitoring Kubernetes: from pods to nodes to probes Kubernetes is brilliant at hiding failures — it restarts and reschedules so smoothly you may not notice trouble until it's everywhere. Here's what to watch so the magic doesn't mask a problem.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/monitoring-kubernetes)[MonitoringFeb 06, 2026 ## Monitoring Serverless (Lambda and friends) Serverless means no servers to watch — and a few new things that can go wrong. Here's what to monitor when your code runs as functions: cold starts, duration, errors and throttles.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/monitoring-serverless)[MonitoringFeb 04, 2026 ## How Often Should You Monitor? (choosing a check interval) Check too rarely and you find out about outages late; check constantly and you pay for it. Here's how to choose a monitoring interval that matches what each service is actually worth.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/monitoring-interval)[MonitoringFeb 02, 2026 ## Why Monitor From Multiple Locations? Checking your site from one place gives you one opinion — and it's often wrong. Here's why monitoring from multiple global locations kills false alarms and reveals problems a single check can't see.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/global-monitoring-locations)[MonitoringNov 02, 2025 ## How to Choose a Monitoring Tool There are dozens of monitoring tools, and the marketing all sounds the same. Here's a practical, vendor-neutral checklist of what actually matters — so you pick the one that fits your needs.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/monitoring-tools-how-to-choose) --- Canonical page: https://watchfor.io/blog/category/monitoring/page/2 · Site guide: https://watchfor.io/llms.txt