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How Upcertain works, why it works that way, and what we learn running it.
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- 25 October 2026How Upcertain decides a site is downFrom a failed request to an alert in Slack: the checks, re-checks and rules Upcertain uses before it calls something an outage, and why.
- 25 October 2026Brief outages on status pages: why we fold them and show each service's downtimeWhy Upcertain status pages group simultaneous incidents, show each service's own downtime and fold short blips into one line a day without hiding them.
- 25 October 2026Ask Claude what's down: connecting your uptime monitors over MCPConnect Upcertain's MCP server to Claude and Claude Code, then ask about outages, uptime and incidents in plain language. Setup, prompts and safeguards.
- 25 October 2026Freshping shut down in 2026. What to look for in the next monitorFreshping's free monitoring ended in March 2026. A checklist for choosing what comes next, from check intervals to status pages, and how to move quickly.
- 25 October 2026Monitoring a Next.js app on Vercel: health route, keyword check and cron heartbeatsA worked setup for a Next.js app on Vercel: a health route that checks the database, keyword and SSL monitoring, and heartbeats for Vercel cron jobs.
- 25 October 2026Monitoring a Supabase-backed app: what to check and howHow to monitor an app built on Supabase: a health check through your own API, a port check on the connection pooler and heartbeats sent from pg_cron.
- 25 October 2026Heartbeats for systemd timers, Kubernetes CronJobs and queue workersPatterns for adding heartbeat monitoring to systemd timers, Kubernetes CronJobs, Windows Task Scheduler and long-running queue workers.
- 25 October 2026Slack alert fatigue: how to keep an alert channel worth readingWhy alert channels turn into noise and the settings that fix it: confirmation, one message per incident, recovery in place, routing by owner and grouping.
- 25 October 2026An error budget for small teams: spending your 43 minutes a monthTurn an uptime target into a monthly downtime budget, see what deploys, incidents and maintenance spend from it, and decide when to slow down.
- 25 October 2026Incident communication templates for small teamsCopy-ready status page updates for investigating, identified, monitoring and resolved incidents, plus maintenance notices and a short post-incident note.