Monitoring Guides
What Happens When Your Tools Go Down
Role-by-role survival guides for the services your team depends on. What actually happens, what it costs, and how to detect it in 60 seconds.
Developer Tools
GitHub
GitHub outages affect CI/CD pipelines, pull request workflows, and deployments. If your team ships code through GitHub, an outage can halt your entire development process.
Read the guide →Developer ToolsVercel
If you host on Vercel, your production site lives on their infrastructure. A Vercel outage means your users see errors — and you need to know before they tell you.
Read the guide →Developer ToolsNetlify
If you deploy to Netlify, your production site depends on their CDN and build system. A Netlify outage can make your site unreachable or prevent new deployments from going live.
Read the guide →Communication
Slack
When Slack goes down, team communication stops. Integrations break, bots stop posting, and critical alerts from other tools never arrive. The irony: you can't even tell your team Slack is down... on Slack.
Read the guide →CommunicationDiscord
If you use Discord for community support, team chat, or webhook alerts, an outage means missed messages and lost context. Bot integrations fail silently — no errors, just silence.
Read the guide →Infrastructure
Amazon Web Services
AWS powers a significant portion of the internet. A regional outage can take down your servers, databases, CDN, and storage. AWS's own status page has historically been slow to update during major incidents.
Read the guide →InfrastructureCloudflare
Cloudflare sits between your users and your origin server. If Cloudflare has issues, your site becomes unreachable even if your server is perfectly healthy. DNS failures are especially impactful — your domain simply stops resolving.
Read the guide →