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ASAdSail LLC

Uptime checks on everything that matters, with an alert that reaches a human.

Live

Most outages are not found by monitoring. They are found by a customer, on a Sunday, in an email that begins “is your site down?”. This is the unglamorous fix for that, and it is cheap next to one afternoon of a stopped checkout.

What you get

  • Checks on the things that actually matter: the site, the checkout, the API, the job that is supposed to run every night.
  • Alerts that reach a human on a channel they already read, rather than an email address nobody opens.
  • Checks on the absence of things too. A scheduled job that stops running silently is the failure nobody catches.
  • A status history, so “it has felt slow lately” becomes a number somebody can act on.

What this is not

  • Fixing what the monitor finds. That is separate work and it is quoted separately rather than folded in.
  • Application performance tracing. This tells you something is down, not which query is slow.
  • Any promise that you will not have an outage. It tells you first; it does not prevent.

How it runs

  1. 01

    You list what must not be down

    Usually shorter than people expect. The checkout, the thing that takes money, and the two jobs everything else depends on.

  2. 02

    Checks go up, including the silent ones

    Both directions: something responding when it should, and something running when it should.

  3. 03

    You get told first

    Before your customers do, on a channel you have not muted.

Questions

How fast is the alert?
Minutes, not hours. The interval is set per check, because a checkout deserves tighter watching than a blog does.
Where do the alerts go?
Wherever you actually read: chat, SMS, email. A channel you have muted is not monitoring, it is paperwork.
Do you respond to them as well?
Only if that is what you bought. Monitoring that alerts you and monitoring where somebody else gets up and fixes it are different prices, and the listing will not blur them.