The Problem
Without monitoring, you learn about problems from customers:
- Downtime discovery: Customers report issues before you know
- Slow degradation: Performance problems go unnoticed until severe
- Integration failures: API and sync issues silent until data problems surface
- Capacity blindness: Resource exhaustion surprising instead of predicted
- Reactive firefighting: Always responding to crises instead of preventing them
When you don’t know what’s happening, you can’t act proactively.
How I Solve It
I implement monitoring that gives visibility into system health:
Uptime Monitoring
- Endpoint healthchecks at regular intervals
- Downtime detection within minutes
- Geographic distribution for accurate global view
- Status page for customer visibility
Application Monitoring
- Error rate tracking and alerting
- Performance degradation detection
- Database and query performance
- Resource utilization tracking
Integration Monitoring
- Sync job completion verification
- API response time and error rates
- Queue depth and processing time
- Data freshness validation
Alerting Configuration
- Threshold-based alerts for metrics
- Escalation paths for severity levels
- On-call notification via appropriate channels
- Alert fatigue prevention through tuning
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What Gets Monitored
Website Health
- Page load times and Core Web Vitals
- Error rates and response codes
- SSL certificate expiration
- DNS resolution and propagation
Integration Health
- ERP sync completion and timing
- CRM data flow verification
- Payment gateway availability
- Third-party API response times
Infrastructure Health
- Server resource utilization
- Database performance metrics
- CDN and cache hit rates
- Background job completion
Common Monitoring Scenarios
E-commerce Operations
- Checkout availability monitoring
- Payment gateway healthchecks
- Inventory sync verification
- Order processing queue depth
Multi-Property Portfolios
- Unified monitoring across properties
- Property-specific thresholds
- Consolidated alerting
- Cross-property health dashboard
Integration-Heavy Systems
- Sync job completion monitoring
- Data freshness alerts
- API quota consumption
- Queue backlog detection
The Outcome
Issues are detected before customers notice. Performance degradation triggers investigation before it becomes critical. Integration failures are caught immediately. Operations shift from reactive firefighting to proactive maintenance. System reliability improves because problems are visible and addressed early.
