Signal, not noise.
Notes on monitoring, alerting, and the discipline of telling the truth about infrastructure. Infrequent, long, unvarnished.
Why we check every minute, not every five
Most monitoring tools default to a five-minute interval. Here's why PingPane Pro ships with sixty seconds and why the difference matters.
The quiet hours
An alert you ignore is worse than no alert at all. How PingPane thinks about signal, noise, and the cost of the wrong notification at 3am.
Status pages deserve better
A public status page is a piece of customer communication, not a dashboard. Why most of them look like accounting software and what the alternative looks like.