Beyond Uptime Monitoring
Your site is up. Your product might still be broken.
Basic uptime monitoring tells you the homepage loads. It does not tell you whether your workflows are executing, your cron jobs are running, or your webhooks are processing correctly.
What Basic Uptime Monitoring Misses
A typical uptime monitor pings your homepage or a health endpoint every few minutes and checks for a 200 response. That catches complete outages. It does not catch:
These are real failure patterns. They happen in production every day, and they are invisible to tools that only check whether a URL returns 200.
What upti.my Adds on Top
Side by Side
| Capability | Basic Uptime | upti.my |
|---|---|---|
| HTTP health check | ||
| Multi-protocol (gRPC, GraphQL, TCP, DNS, SSL) | ||
| Sub-minute check intervals | ||
| Cron job / heartbeat monitoring | ||
| Multi-step workflow monitoring | ||
| Webhook processing monitoring | ||
| Queue and worker pipeline tracking | ||
| Incident management | ||
| Status pages (public and private) | ||
| Alert routing and escalation | ||
| Self-healing agents | ||
| Playwright browser checks |
Frequently Asked Questions
Is uptime monitoring still useful?
Yes. Uptime monitoring is the foundation. You need to know if your services are reachable. But it should be the starting point, not the entire strategy. The most damaging failures in modern products happen when the service is technically up but not working correctly.
What kinds of failures does basic uptime monitoring miss?
It misses silent workflow failures, broken background jobs, invalid data processing, webhook processing errors, stale caches, degraded API responses that still return 200, expired SSL certificates (until they break), DNS changes, and queue backlogs.
Do I need to remove my current uptime monitoring to use upti.my?
No. You can run upti.my alongside your existing tools or replace them. Many teams start by adding workflow and cron monitoring and gradually consolidate into one platform.
How much effort is it to go beyond basic uptime checks?
Adding cron job monitoring takes minutes (one HTTP call from your job). Webhook and workflow monitoring require adding check-in calls to each step, which is typically a few lines of code per step. upti.my handles the tracking, alerting, and visualization.
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