·5 min read
Why Check Node Location Determines Whether Your Uptime Data Is Real
A 200 OK from Virginia does not mean Jakarta users are fine. Check node location shapes routing, CDN edges, DNS, and whether your uptime data matches reality.
Incident articles, page 4
More articles on incident management, monitoring, and on-call.
·8 min read
The Best PagerDuty Alternatives for Engineering Teams in APAC
Compare Vigiles, incident.io, Spike.sh, Better Stack, Rootly, and Opsgenie for APAC teams weighing per-seat cost, detection, and regional check coverage.
·4 min read
Pick the right SLO before you worry about the error budget
An error budget only works when the SLO beneath it reflects what users feel. Why copied reliability targets fail, and how to choose an SLI worth measuring.
·3 min read
Your uptime check passed while the service was down
A 200 on your homepage proves almost nothing. Why partial outages slip past basic uptime checks, and how to monitor the path customers actually use.
·6 min read
The fishbone diagram for incident root cause analysis
A fishbone diagram maps every contributing cause of an incident, not just one. What it is, how it beats the 5 Whys, and how to run one in a postmortem.
·3 min read
After an incident, MTTR is the wrong thing to brag about
Mean time to recovery is easy to measure and easy to game. What to track after an incident instead, so your postmortems actually change something.