--- title: #monitoring — page 2 of 2 description: 39 articles about monitoring — guides and explainers from the WatchFor team. canonical: https://watchfor.io/blog/tag/monitoring/page/2 --- [All posts](/blog) # #monitoring — page 2 Articles tagged "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) 39 article s · page 2 of 2 [MonitoringAug 09, 2026 ## API monitoring beyond status codes: assert on the response, chart what matters A 200 OK only proves your API answered — not that the answer was right. Here's why status-only checks miss real outages, what monitoring the response actually takes, and how WatchFor's new API monitor asserts on JSON, extracts values into charts, and pages you when the body goes wrong.WatchFor Team6 min read](/blog/api-monitoring-beyond-status-codes)[MonitoringJul 30, 2026 ## Heartbeat & Cron Job Monitoring: the Dead Man's Switch Your Backups Deserve Most monitoring checks that something is up. Heartbeat monitoring does the opposite — it alerts when something that should run goes silent. The concept, who needs it, and how to set it up so a dead backup job can't hide for three weeks.WatchFor Team6 min read](/blog/heartbeat-cron-monitoring)[MonitoringJul 30, 2026 ## MCP Server Monitoring: Why "HTTP 200" Means Nothing to an AI Agent MCP servers fail in ways no uptime check can see: the port answers 200 while the handshake breaks, tools vanish, or a tool description is silently rewritten under your agents. Here's how protocol-level MCP monitoring works — and why we built it.WatchFor Team5 min read](/blog/mcp-server-monitoring)[ReliabilityJun 26, 2026 ## SLA vs SLO vs SLI: the reliability promise, decoded Three little acronyms quietly run every serious reliability conversation — and almost everyone mixes them up. Here's what SLA, SLO and SLI actually mean, how they fit together, and how to set ones that won't page you at 3am for nothing.WatchFor Team8 min read](/blog/sla-slo-sli)[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 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)[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)[NetworkingFeb 14, 2026 ## What is a Network Port? (and how to monitor one) An IP address gets you to the right machine; a port gets you to the right service on it. Here's what ports are, the common ones, and why monitoring them catches outages a website check misses.WatchFor Team3 min read](/blog/what-is-a-network-port)[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/tag/monitoring/page/2 · Site guide: https://watchfor.io/llms.txt