Monitoring
Monitoring is the ongoing, automated monitoring of a website or server, which reports outages, errors, and performance problems before visitors notice them.
A monitoring system checks the website at fixed intervals, such as every 60 seconds, and verifies its availability , loading time , and status code. If deviations occur, such as a status code 500 or a response time exceeding a defined threshold, the system triggers an alert via email or SMS. More advanced systems also monitor server resources such as CPU utilization, RAM, and available disk space.
Example: A shop is checked every 60 seconds from three locations. If the site goes down at 3:14 a.m., an alert is sent to the responsible technician within two minutes, and the problem is fixed at 3:26 a.m. Without monitoring, the outage might not have been noticed by customers until the morning, resulting in a corresponding loss of revenue over several hours.
Set up monitoring with alerts for every important project, not just for the homepage, but also for key functions like checkout or contact forms. Respond to alerts promptly instead of just logging them.
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