https://www.upti.my/blog Engineering insights on uptime monitoring, incident management, status pages, and building reliable systems. en-us Wed, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-monitor-cron-jobs-properly https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-monitor-cron-jobs-properly Cron jobs fail silently by design. Here is a practical guide to monitoring scheduled tasks with heartbeats, timeout detection, and output validation. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/uptimerobot-alternative https://www.upti.my/blog/uptimerobot-alternative UptimeRobot works for simple ping checks. When you need API validation, incident management, status pages, and workflows in one place, you need something else. Tue, 17 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/why-basic-ping-checks-are-not-enough https://www.upti.my/blog/why-basic-ping-checks-are-not-enough A ping tells you a server is reachable. It tells you nothing about whether your application actually works. Here is what you should monitor instead. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/hidden-cost-silent-background-worker-failures https://www.upti.my/blog/hidden-cost-silent-background-worker-failures Background workers fail without alerts, without logs, without anyone noticing. Here is what that costs you and how to catch it before your users do. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-build-reliability-stack https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-build-reliability-stack Most teams piece together monitoring, incident management, status pages, alerting, and automation from different vendors. There is a better way. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/what-to-put-on-status-page-during-incident https://www.upti.my/blog/what-to-put-on-status-page-during-incident Most status pages are useless during incidents. Here is what to write, when to update, and how to communicate without making things worse. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/better-stack-vs-uptimy https://www.upti.my/blog/better-stack-vs-uptimy Better Stack bundles uptime monitoring with log management. upti.my bundles monitoring with incident management, status pages, and self-healing. Here is how they compare. Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-small-saas-teams-handle-incident-response https://www.upti.my/blog/how-small-saas-teams-handle-incident-response You do not need a 50-page runbook or a dedicated SRE team. Here is how small teams can run incident response that actually works. Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-reduce-alert-fatigue-smarter-routing https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-reduce-alert-fatigue-smarter-routing Alert fatigue is not a volume problem. It is a routing problem. Here is how to send the right alerts to the right people at the right time. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/what-self-healing-monitoring-looks-like https://www.upti.my/blog/what-self-healing-monitoring-looks-like Self-healing is not science fiction. It is a monitoring check that detects a known problem and runs a known fix. Here is how to build it for real systems. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/ssl-certificate-expiry-monitoring-guide https://www.upti.my/blog/ssl-certificate-expiry-monitoring-guide SSL certificates expire silently. Learn how to monitor expiry dates, validate certificate chains, and automate renewal checks before your site goes down. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/dns-monitoring-what-can-go-wrong https://www.upti.my/blog/dns-monitoring-what-can-go-wrong DNS issues are invisible until everything breaks. Learn to monitor propagation, detect hijacking, and catch misconfigurations before users notice. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/self-healing-infrastructure-practical-guide https://www.upti.my/blog/self-healing-infrastructure-practical-guide You don't need a platform team to automate incident response. A practical guide to building self-healing systems with monitoring triggers and recovery agents. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/uptime-monitoring-checklist-2026 https://www.upti.my/blog/uptime-monitoring-checklist-2026 A no-nonsense checklist for monitoring your production stack. Covers APIs, databases, DNS, SSL, cron jobs, background workers, and status pages. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/why-http-200-is-not-a-health-check https://www.upti.my/blog/why-http-200-is-not-a-health-check Your API returns 200 OK, but is it actually healthy? Learn why status codes lie and what to check instead. Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/grpc-health-check-monitoring-guide https://www.upti.my/blog/grpc-health-check-monitoring-guide A practical guide to monitoring gRPC services, from the standard health check protocol to custom RPC validation. Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/cron-job-monitoring-failure-modes https://www.upti.my/blog/cron-job-monitoring-failure-modes Your nightly backup job failed 3 weeks ago. Here's how to catch silent cron failures before they become disasters. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/detecting-silent-failures-background-workers https://www.upti.my/blog/detecting-silent-failures-background-workers Queue workers fail without fanfare. Learn patterns for detecting when your background jobs stop processing. Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/status-pages-vs-alerts-real-tradeoffs https://www.upti.my/blog/status-pages-vs-alerts-real-tradeoffs When should you update the status page vs. just alerting internally? A framework for incident communication decisions. Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/designing-heartbeat-monitoring-system https://www.upti.my/blog/designing-heartbeat-monitoring-system Technical deep-dive into building a dead man's switch for scheduled tasks. Architecture patterns and edge cases. Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT