Uptime Monitoring

Overview

External monitoring that checks if your application is reachable and responding correctly.

Why It Matters

Know you're down before users tell you. External perspective catches network issues.

The Risk

Implementation Components

A complete implementation of this capability includes:

• External checks from outside your infrastructure
• HTTP/HTTPS endpoint monitoring
• SSL certificate expiration tracking
• DNS resolution verification
• Multi-location checks (detect regional outages)
• Public status page showing uptime history

Implementation Pattern

1. 1Configure checks for critical endpoints
2. 2Set check frequency
3. 3Define success criteria
4. 4Track uptime SLA

Pipeline Coverage

This continuous capability monitors and applies to the following pipeline phases:

Tool Examples

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