Practical guides on uptime, performance, and compliance monitoring -- written from actually running SREmonitor. For deeper SRE and platform engineering writing, see Platform Signals.
A guide to a holistic observability suite: SLIs and SLOs, Real User Monitoring, synthetic monitoring, APM, AIOps and centralised logs, what each does and how they connect.
18 October 2026 · 10 min read
How to secure a website: HTTPS and certificate renewal, passwords and MFA, updates, backups, security headers, cookies and the OWASP Top 10, plus where monitoring fits.
9 October 2026 · 14 min read
Datadog and Grafana checks are cheap, but setup takes SRE skills. What monitoring really involves, what GDPR scanners cost, and a flat-rate alternative.
6 October 2026 · 6 min read
What Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) actually measure, why they affect SEO and conversions, and how to keep them healthy without a dedicated performance team.
5 September 2026 · 7 min read
What website uptime monitoring really means, how often to check it, and why pinging your homepage isn't the same as knowing something's actually wrong.
5 September 2026 · 6 min read
The GDPR compliance gaps most small business websites have -- cookie banners, lawful basis, data subject rights, accessibility -- and how to catch them automatically.
5 September 2026 · 8 min read
Why paging on the first failed check causes alert fatigue, how SRE teams fix it with a consecutive-failure rule, and what a genuinely useful alert should include.
5 September 2026 · 7 min read