Your site is up. Your product might still be broken.
Beyond Uptime Monitoring
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.
- 03:06:00website · 200 OK · 142 ms
03:07 · the problem
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.
03:08 · where it breaks
When the Site Is Up But the Product Is Broken
A SaaS product runs a nightly sync that imports customer data from a third-party API. The homepage loads fine. The health endpoint returns 200. But:
The uptime monitor never fired. Everything looked green. But the product was broken for customers in at least four different ways. This is the gap between uptime monitoring and actual reliability.
07:30 · how Uptimy fixes it
What Uptimy Adds on Top
13:00 · fits your stack
Side by Side
| Capability | Basic Uptime | Uptimy |
|---|---|---|
| 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 workflows | ||
| Playwright browser checks |
17:00 · questions
Frequently Asked Questions
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.
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.
No. You can run Uptimy alongside your existing tools or replace them. Many teams start by adding workflow and cron monitoring and gradually consolidate into one platform.
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. Uptimy handles the tracking, alerting, and visualization.
20:00 · keep exploring
Related Topics
Workflow Monitoring
The flagship example of what deeper monitoring looks like.
Webhook Monitoring
When your endpoint returns 200 but the event was never processed.
What You Can Monitor
See every type of check Uptimy supports beyond uptime.
Reliability Stack
See how monitoring, incidents, status pages, and alerting connect in one stack.
23:00 · goodnight
Stop wondering if production is okay.
Tonight, if something breaks, you will know first — with the context to fix it and a status page that keeps customers informed. And if nothing breaks, you get to sleep.
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