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PingRelay Engineering
The PingRelay Engineering team writes practical field notes about uptime, monitoring, incident response, and the systems that keep online services dependable.
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Articles by PingRelay Engineering
Website monitoring
How to Check If a Website Is Down (or Just Down for You)
Find out whether a website is down for everyone or only on your connection, and learn the next steps to take when an outage is confirmed.
API monitoring
How to Monitor a REST API for Uptime and Performance
Learn how to monitor a REST API for availability, response time, expected responses, dependencies, and SSL certificate health.
Uptime
What Is 99.9% Uptime? Downtime Explained
Understand what 99.9% uptime means in minutes of downtime, how uptime is measured, and how to set an availability target that fits your service.
Agencies
Website Monitoring for Agencies: How to Monitor Client Sites
A practical guide to monitoring client websites at an agency, reducing alert noise, and communicating outages with confidence.
Website monitoring
How to Monitor a Website for Downtime
Learn how to monitor a website for downtime with the right check types, locations, alert rules, and response process.
Monitoring tools
UptimeRobot Alternatives: Best Uptime Monitoring Tools
Compare the best UptimeRobot alternatives for website, API, SSL, and incident monitoring, and learn which capabilities matter before you switch.