Server load can tell you a lot about your day-to-day user traffic. A sudden spike in server traffic can indicate an attack, but that’s not always the case. As website and performance monitoring become more mainstream, and you add a wider variety of backend testing and web monitoring checks to your infrastructure – you have to ask the question – Is that spike in server traffic DDOS? Or is it me…

We hear a lot of questions from folks taking their first steps into website monitoring about how the service works and what we offer. One of the more frequently asked questions is why they need us at all. After all, they have metrics from XYZ provider who can tell them if they have consumed too much bandwidth or are overloaded with traffic. Wouldn’t they just know that they were up or down by watching those metrics?

By now it’s no secret that system outages and website downtime are more widespread and frequent than ever. In fact, the frequency of outages jumped 9% in just the first week of 2022. This can be attributed to a rapid increase in traffic and reliance on tech infrastructures – resulting in connectivity, server, and other technical issues that are alternately unforeseen and unavoidable.

Have you found yourself confused by the plans and pricing around website performance monitoring? Are you using the features you’re paying for? Finding the right service involves many moving parts. Very often, that journey begins with a quest to find a simple up or down monitoring tool for external verification. It’s only after you take that first step into the market that you begin to notice additional features and expanded functionality.