The solo bottleneck
Clients should not be your monitoring product.
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Stack that stays small
Uptime monitor + phone push + status page optional.
Tools named here: UptimeRobot, Better Stack, Pushover. Prefer official docs and native features before adding another SaaS.
Ship the automation
Monitor homepage + checkout/API health endpoints every 5 minutes.
Alert to phone for downtime; email is too slow.
Mute planned deploys so you do not train yourself to ignore alerts.
Keep a one-page runbook: DNS, host, rollback.
Keep it honest
Alert fatigue is real. Only wake up for customer-visible failures.
Automations should reduce decisions and errors — not hide broken processes. If a Zap fails weekly, fix the process or delete the Zap.
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