notes from the workshop.
Field notes on uptime monitoring, status pages, and the unglamorous work of keeping production boring.
2026-07-04
Email bombing through uptime monitoring pages
Attackers flood an inbox to bury one real alert, like bank fraud. How subscription bombing works, and how to build a monitor that can't be abused.
- security
- monitoring
- abuse
2026-06-30
An uptime monitor in Rust: one binary, two databases
The Rust build behind Uptimepage: a custom hyper client doing ~130K checks a second on one core, a single-heap scheduler, and ClickHouse rollups.
- rust
- clickhouse
- monitoring
- devops
2026-06-20
Best self-hosted uptime monitoring tools in 2026
A fair look at the open-source, self-hostable tools for watching sites and APIs in 2026: what each is good at, where it stops, and how to pick one.
- open-source
- self-hosted
- monitoring
- status-page
2026-06-18
The night Emma stopped opening dashboards
A 2 a.m. alert, and an on-call engineer who never opened a tab. A short story about asking your monitoring questions instead of clicking through it.
- mcp
- ai
- monitoring
- on-call
2026-06-18
The mystery of the "down" website
"The site is down!" But what does "down" really mean? A detective story through the seven network layers, and the one quiet failure no alarm caught.
- monitoring
- networking
- osi
- tls
- dns
2026-06-16
Your monitoring config belongs in a pull request
Click-created monitors rot: nobody recalls why a threshold is set, and the reasoning leaves with its author. Terraform fixes that, and bites back in places.
- terraform
- infrastructure-as-code
- monitoring
- devops
2026-06-03
Your monitors can talk to an AI, with your permission
Uptimepage now speaks MCP, so an LLM can answer "what's broken and since when?" in plain language, plus what we did to stop it from wrecking things.
- mcp
- ai
- monitoring
- security
- api
2026-05-20
Why your uptime monitor should be boring
A monitor that surprises you is doing the wrong job. What changes when you treat the watchdog like a smoke detector: cheap, dumb, unmissable when it matters.
- monitoring
- incidents
- status-pages
- on-call