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Your Uptime Monitor Says 200 OK and Your Site Is Still Broken

If you run production web apps, you have probably watched a green dashboard during an outage at least once. This post covers the gaps a basic uptime check leaves open, and the few settings that close…

  • Standard uptime monitors only check for 2xx status codes, not content correctness.
  • Implement keyword checks and response assertions to verify page body content.
  • Monitor critical pages and flows to detect payment step failures.

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