What’s the point of uptime monitoring? So you know when your web application fails so you can fix the darn thing before bad things happen. Like general chaos on a Monday morning. Or customers clogging up support. Like your boss firing you. And it can happen to anyone. Even companies like Twitter, Google and Amazon have all recently had major outages (article links: Twitter, Google, Amazon). Whether you’ve got a little blog on the side, a big e-commerce site or a mission critical business application, you need appropriate uptime monitoring.
Know when your web application fails so you can fix the darn thing before bad things happen.