Insights on uptime monitoring, incident response, and engineering efficiency.
See the incredible ways our community is pushing the boundaries of monitoring. From particle accelerators to Mars rovers (hypothetically).
The fastest way to set up your own monitoring stack. Docker Compose, configuration, and your first check in under 300 seconds.
Vertical scaling has limits. Learn how to shard your monitoring across 100 nodes using Consistent Hashing.
Can you use that tool at work? A non-lawyer's guide to open source licenses for infrastructure software.
What to say when everything is burning. Templates for incident communication that build trust instead of destroying it.
Can AI really predict downtime? We demystify AIOps, Anomaly Detection, and Dynamic Thresholding.
Alert fatigue is a retention killer. Learn how to route, deduplicate, and escalate alerts effectively.
Microservices introduce 10x the complexity. Learn the 3 architectures for monitoring them effective: The Sidecar, The DaemonSet, and The Central Scraper.
New Year, New Logs. Start 2026 by auditing your monitoring stack, deleting zombie alerts, and fixing blind spots.
Sneak peek at the future of Cluster Uptime. Plugin architecture, RBAC, and AI-driven anomaly detection.
Chasing 'Five Nines' is expensive and often unnecessary. Learn how to calculate the right availability target for your business.
We analyzed billions of checks from 2025. Here is what broke, what stayed up, and what we learned about global infrastructure.
Stop confusing these acronyms. A clear, practical guide to defining Service Level Indicators, Objectives, and Agreements for your team.
Stop paying for basic monitoring. A step-by-step guide to exporting your monitors from UptimeRobot and importing them into self-hosted Cluster Uptime.
Relational databases struggle with time-series data. Learn about partitioning, LSM trees, and downsampling strategies for monitoring.
Complexity is the enemy of uptime. Discover why boring technology and simple architectures are the secrets to 99.99% availability.
A step-by-step guide to conducting a Blameless Post-Mortem. Includes a template to standardise your incident review process.
How to shrink your Docker images from 1GB to 5MB. Multi-stage builds, static linking, and security benefits.
Why open sourcing your internal tools attracts top talent and improves morale. The cultural impact of contributing back.
Prepare your infrastructure for Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Christmas spikes. Caching strategies, auto-scaling tips, and graceful degradation.
A visionary look at where the monitoring industry is heading in the next 5 years. From predictive AI models to monitoring at the Edge.
Your status dashboard reveals your infrastructure secrets. Learn how to secure it with Zero Trust, OAuth, and Network Policies.
A curated list of the tools defining the next generation of infrastructure. eBPF, GitOps, and lightweight monitoring take center stage.
Don't just watch the server burn. Learn how to use Webhooks to trigger auto-remediation scripts, scale-up events, and status updates.
The era of the 'bash script' is ending. Why compiled, memory-safe languages are the new standard for infrastructure tooling.
High latency is bad. Erratic latency (jitter) is worse. Learn how to diagnose buffer bloat, noisy neighbors, and route flapping.
Software efficiency is climate action. Discover how switching from Java agents to Go binaries can reduce your server energy consumption.
A deep dive into branding your incident communication. Custom CSS, HTML injection, and psychological design patterns for downtime.
How to build a world-class monitoring stack without paying a dime in licensing fees. Integrating Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Cluster Uptime.
Designing a fail-safe monitoring architecture. Multi-cloud strategies, dead man's switches, and ensuring your alerts always get through.
If you are only checking HTTP 200, you are missing the picture. A guide to the Golden Signals of monitoring for HA systems.
Deep dive into the pricing models of Datadog, New Relic, and others. How switching to open source can save 80% of your observability budget.
Alert fatigue destroys DevOps culture. Learn advanced configuration strategies to eliminate 99% of false alarms without missing real outages.
Turn your Raspberry Pi 4 or 5 into an enterprise-grade monitoring station. A complete step-by-step tutorial with Docker Compose.
How does Cluster Uptime stack up against UptimeRobot, Pingdom, and Datadog? We break down the features, costs, and philosophy.
The architectural challenges of massive scale monitoring. Learn how we solved database bottlenecks, network limits, and alert fatigue.
Why relying on a SaaS status page is a risk you shouldn't take. Learn the benefits of self-hosted incident communication.
How we engineered Cluster Uptime's agents to handle 10k+ concurrent checks with sub-millisecond overhead using Go.
Why efficiency determines the viability of your monitoring stack at scale. Learn how to monitor 10,000+ endpoints without breaking the bank.
Discover why we chose to open source our core technology. Learn about the benefits of transparency, community security audits, and data ownership.
Announcing the launch of ClusterUptime, the modern open-source uptime monitor.