Services
Monitoring beyond uptime
An uptime check tells you a site is down after it happens. I watch the things that take sites down – DNS, certificates, domain renewals and your key services – so problems are caught before your customers notice.
At a glance
Who it’s for
Any business whose website, email or online services can’t afford to quietly break.
Plans
Works on any Cloudflare plan, or without Cloudflare at all.
Cost
Part of an ongoing care retainer, alongside regular reviews.
When something fails
You and your team get the alert too. I look into it and tell you what happened and what to do next.
What I check
More than “is it up?”
Plenty of outages aren’t a server falling over. They’re a certificate that expired, a DNS record someone changed, a domain that wasn’t renewed or an email record that went missing. Each one is easy to check for, and easy to miss.
Monitoring catches them while they’re still a warning, not an outage.
I keep watch on
- Your website responding correctly, not just responding
- SSL certificates, with warnings well before they expire
- DNS records and name servers changing when they shouldn’t
- Domain registrations coming up for renewal
- Email records: MX, SPF, DKIM and DMARC still in place
- Key services such as APIs, logins and mail servers
- Records still pointing at services you no longer use
How it runs
Set up once, then watched
1
List what matters
Together we list your domains, sites and services, and what “working” means for each one.
2
Set up the checks
A check for each, and who gets told when one fails.
3
Look into alerts
When a check fails, I find out why, tell you what happened and what to do next, and fix it if it’s in scope.
4
Review regularly
What was seen, what’s changed, and what’s due to expire next.
Good to know
Before you start
When it’s Cloudflare itself
Even Cloudflare has bad days. Monitoring tells you whether a problem is yours or theirs. What happens when Cloudflare goes down covers what you can do about it.
Old records, new risks
A DNS record pointing at a service you’ve stopped using can let someone else serve content on your domain. Dangling DNS explains how.
Part of ongoing care
Monitoring sits alongside regular reviews and help when you need it. See how I work for the ways to work with me.
Want to know what would break first? Tell me what you run, and I’ll tell you what’s worth watching.
Under attack right now? Call +61 2 8363 3348.