How to monitor a website for downtime

1. Pick the endpoint that proves the app works
   Monitor a URL that exercises the database or API, not a static landing page that stays up while the app is broken.
2. Choose a check interval you will actually act on
   A one-minute interval is only useful if someone is reachable within a minute; otherwise five minutes costs less and tells you the same thing.
3. Set the failure threshold above a single blip
   Require two or three consecutive failures before alerting so one dropped packet does not page you.
4. Send alerts where you already look
   Route notifications to the channel you read, and test the route by forcing a failure once.
5. Re-test the alert after every change
   An alert path that was never exercised after a config change is not a alert path.

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