What to Monitor
Prioritize business-critical URLs such as the home page, login endpoints, checkouts, and main API status points. Monitoring static assets is less critical than checking key transactional flows.
Choosing Check Intervals
Check intervals balance detection speed and server load. A 1-minute interval is standard for public landing pages, while 5-minute checks are sufficient for support centers.
Avoiding False Alarms
Verify downtime from multiple geographic regions before paging on-call staff. A single-node failure is usually a localized routing glitch rather than a true outage.