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OnlineOrNot updates from May 2026 original ↗

3 Jun 2026

Best Pingdom alternatives for 2026 (free and paid)original ↗

29 May 2026

Best UptimeRobot alternatives for 2026 (free and paid)original ↗

29 May 2026

10 Best Uptime Monitoring Tools for 2026 original ↗

21 May 2026

8 Best Synthetic Monitoring Tools for 2026 original ↗

10 Mar 2026

API monitoring: A practical guide original ↗

3 Mar 2026

Cron job monitoring: How to know when your scheduled tasks fail original ↗

3 Mar 2026

MTTR: What it means and how to improve it original ↗

3 Mar 2026

OnlineOrNot updates from February 2026 original ↗

3 Mar 2026

Website monitoring: What it is and why you need it original ↗

3 Mar 2026

OnlineOrNot updates from January 2026 original ↗

4 Feb 2026

Looking back on 2025, and what's next original ↗

11 Jan 2026

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19 Nov 2025

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9 May 2025

How to get alerted when your EC2 instance shuts down original ↗

29 Apr 2025

OnlineOrNot updates from 2025 Q1 original ↗

8 Apr 2025

Monitoring your web application as a small team original ↗

22 Jan 2025

What is the curl command?original ↗

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2024, and what's next original ↗

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How OnlineOrNot more than halved its AWS bill original ↗

28 Oct 2024

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Improving your on-call schedule with runbooks original ↗

12 Mar 2024

How to check if a website is online original ↗

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OnlineOrNot updates from January 2024 original ↗

3 Feb 2024

I built my HTTP API docs from scratch original ↗

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How to get your first ten customers original ↗

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OnlineOrNot updates from November 2023 original ↗

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2 Oct 2023

How to monitor your uptime with OnlineOrNot original ↗

27 Sept 2023

Scaling AWS Lambda and Postgres to thousands of simultaneous uptime checks original ↗

16 Sept 2023

Guidelines for updating WordPress and its plugins, safely.original ↗

16 Sept 2023

Domain expiry: How to prevent your domain from expiring original ↗

25 Jul 2023

Our lessons from the latest AWS us-east-1 outage original ↗

18 Jun 2023

No, the average cost of downtime is not $5600 per minute original ↗

14 Jun 2023

OnlineOrNot updates from May original ↗

8 Jun 2023

On writing better error messages original ↗

27 Mar 2023

Monitoring our monitoring original ↗

8 Mar 2023

Announcing OnlineOrNot's open-source uptime check CLI original ↗

2 Mar 2023

What I learned running a SaaS for a second year original ↗

20 Feb 2023

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Saving your team from alert fatigue original ↗

1 Nov 2022

The unreasonable effectiveness of shipping every day original ↗

26 Aug 2022

How I accidentally told 19k people Hacker News was down original ↗

12 Aug 2022

Postmortem Templates original ↗

27 Jul 2022

Improving your team's on-call experience original ↗

26 Jul 2022

On moving over a million uptime checks per week onto fly.io original ↗

29 Jun 2022

Guidelines for writing better runbooks original ↗

14 Jun 2022

Writing your first runbooks original ↗

14 Jun 2022

What I learned running a SaaS for a year original ↗

21 Feb 2022

Communicating to Users During Incidents original ↗

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What we learned from AWS's us-east-1 outage original ↗

8 Dec 2021

Dealing with Noisy Error Monitoring original ↗

1 Dec 2021

Getting over on-call anxiety original ↗

22 Jul 2021

Self-hosting vs Managed Services: Deciding how to host your database original ↗

8 Jul 2021

What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages original ↗

9 Jun 2021

Picking a domain name, and which country to host your website from original ↗

24 May 2021

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2 May 2021

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24 Apr 2021

Understanding the Page Speed Metrics in Google Lighthouse original ↗

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