Uptrends Blog
Explore expert insights and practical guidance to make sure your critical websites, web applications, and APIs stay resilient.
Why you should be using API Monitoring
APIs power your business — don’t let them fail silently. Discover how API monitoring helps you catch issues early and improve performance.
The evolution of modern web applications and their monitoring
See how web applications have evolved due to cloud adoption and how troubleshooting methods have advanced to tackle the complexity.
New free Ping Tool. Ping from multiple locations all at once.
Free Ping Test Tool. Uptrends' new network tool pings your host from multiple global or regional locations simultaneously for a more comprehensive check.
Take website, API, & server availability monitoring to the next level
In this article, we look at availability monitoring and your many options for checking uptime on your websites, APIs, and servers with Uptrends.
Uptrends and your CI/CD processes
Learn how Uptrends fits into your CI/CD processes, from monitoring secure environments to automating updates for web service monitors.
7 alerting optimizations you should use in your website and API monitoring
Alerting is central to your monitoring strategy. Here are 7 things you should consider when setting up your synthetic website monitoring and API monitoring.
This is why you should use content checks with all your web monitors
Include content checks in your synthetic monitors to verify availability and catch changes that may indicate a security issue.
7 reasons website uptime monitoring matters to your business
Website downtime means lost revenue. Learn how to calculate its business impact and protect against it, plus six more benefits of website monitoring.
Are you getting everything you expect from your CDN?
Find out how to get the CDN performance insights you need with one quick, free test. Here’s how to get started, from setup to analyzing your responses.
New feature: API monitoring with Custom Metrics
Does your API return data you would like to track? Uptrends' Custom Metrics lets you track numeric response data alongside your performance data.
Set up a web performance budget
Here’s how to prevent creating a site that consumes user bandwidth and time by using a web performance budget during the site’s development stage.
Is your website monitoring service using the latest browser version?
Chrome 77 dropped last week and our 209 checkpoint locations are in the process of updating, but that isn’t true for many other monitoring companies.
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