https://www.upti.my/blog Engineering insights on uptime monitoring, incident management, status pages, and building reliable systems. en-us Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/what-you-get-with-upti-my-free-plan https://www.upti.my/blog/what-you-get-with-upti-my-free-plan See what is included in the upti.my free plan: healthchecks, heartbeats, 5-minute checks, basic alerting, incident management, a public status page, log retention, and unlimited team members. Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/what-is-upti-my-healthcheck-1-0-in-my-logs https://www.upti.my/blog/what-is-upti-my-healthcheck-1-0-in-my-logs Saw upti.my-healthcheck/1.0 in your logs? Learn what this user agent is, why it is hitting your site, whether it is safe, and what to monitor in your own product. Thu, 14 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/why-cron-job-started-does-not-mean-finished https://www.upti.my/blog/why-cron-job-started-does-not-mean-finished Most cron monitoring only checks if a job ran. That misses the failures that actually matter: jobs that start but never finish. Here is how to fix that with Heartbeat Job Chains. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-monitor-cron-jobs-properly https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-monitor-cron-jobs-properly Cron jobs fail silently by design. Here is a practical guide to monitoring scheduled tasks with heartbeats, timeout detection, and output validation. Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/why-basic-ping-checks-are-not-enough https://www.upti.my/blog/why-basic-ping-checks-are-not-enough Ping checks only tell you a host is reachable. Learn what they miss and how to monitor APIs, workflows, cron jobs, SSL, DNS, and real user flows instead. Sun, 15 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/hidden-cost-silent-background-worker-failures https://www.upti.my/blog/hidden-cost-silent-background-worker-failures Background workers fail without alerts, without logs, without anyone noticing. Here is what that costs you and how to catch it before your users do. Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-build-reliability-stack https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-build-reliability-stack Most teams piece together monitoring, incident management, status pages, alerting, and automation from different vendors. There is a better way. Wed, 11 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/what-to-put-on-status-page-during-incident https://www.upti.my/blog/what-to-put-on-status-page-during-incident Most status pages are useless during incidents. Here is what to write, when to update, and how to communicate without making things worse. Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-small-saas-teams-handle-incident-response https://www.upti.my/blog/how-small-saas-teams-handle-incident-response Learn a lightweight incident response process for small SaaS teams, including severity levels, on-call, customer communication, and fast postmortems. Sat, 07 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-reduce-alert-fatigue-smarter-routing https://www.upti.my/blog/how-to-reduce-alert-fatigue-smarter-routing Alert fatigue is not a volume problem. It is a routing problem. Here is how to send the right alerts to the right people at the right time. Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/what-self-healing-monitoring-looks-like https://www.upti.my/blog/what-self-healing-monitoring-looks-like Self-healing is not science fiction. It is a monitoring check that detects a known problem and runs a known fix. Here is how to build it for real systems. Wed, 04 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/ssl-certificate-expiry-monitoring-guide https://www.upti.my/blog/ssl-certificate-expiry-monitoring-guide SSL certificates expire silently. Learn how to monitor expiry dates, validate certificate chains, and automate renewal checks before your site goes down. Mon, 02 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/dns-monitoring-what-can-go-wrong https://www.upti.my/blog/dns-monitoring-what-can-go-wrong DNS issues are invisible until everything breaks. Learn to monitor propagation, detect hijacking, and catch misconfigurations before users notice. Wed, 25 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/self-healing-infrastructure-practical-guide https://www.upti.my/blog/self-healing-infrastructure-practical-guide You don't need a platform team to automate incident response. A practical guide to building self-healing systems with monitoring triggers and recovery agents. Wed, 18 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/uptime-monitoring-checklist-2026 https://www.upti.my/blog/uptime-monitoring-checklist-2026 A no-nonsense checklist for monitoring your production stack. Covers APIs, databases, DNS, SSL, cron jobs, background workers, and status pages. Tue, 10 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/why-http-200-is-not-a-health-check https://www.upti.my/blog/why-http-200-is-not-a-health-check A 200 OK response does not mean your app is healthy. Learn what to validate instead, from response content and dependencies to real workflow checks. Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/grpc-health-check-monitoring-guide https://www.upti.my/blog/grpc-health-check-monitoring-guide Learn how to monitor gRPC services with the standard health checking protocol, real RPC checks, gRPC status code alerting, and response validation. Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/cron-job-monitoring-failure-modes https://www.upti.my/blog/cron-job-monitoring-failure-modes Your nightly backup job failed 3 weeks ago. Here's how to catch silent cron failures before they become disasters. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/detecting-silent-failures-background-workers https://www.upti.my/blog/detecting-silent-failures-background-workers Queue workers fail without fanfare. Learn patterns for detecting when your background jobs stop processing. Sat, 10 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/status-pages-vs-alerts-real-tradeoffs https://www.upti.my/blog/status-pages-vs-alerts-real-tradeoffs When should you update the status page vs. just alerting internally? A framework for incident communication decisions. Mon, 05 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://www.upti.my/blog/designing-heartbeat-monitoring-system https://www.upti.my/blog/designing-heartbeat-monitoring-system A practical guide to heartbeat monitoring for cron jobs and scheduled tasks, including grace periods, missed-run alerts, late pings, and hung-job detection. Sun, 28 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT