What Makes SSL Fail, and What Can SREs Do About It?
TLS (and the previously used SSL) protocols make the web go round. They are fundamental when establishing a link between two computers, creating …
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February 2020 Downtime Report
February kicked 2020 off with a terrifying glimpse into what happens when the Internet of Things stops Internetting things. If we consider our …
How to Improve Downtime Response: Error Budgeting and Unplanned Downtime
Every one of us reading this blog has seen a fire spring up and quietly walked away from the impending chaos. And everyone …
Why Your Status Page Matters and How to Use It
When an outage hits your service, everybody starts talking. Your engineers are talking about what caused the problem, and how to fix it; …
January 2020 Outage Report
Welcome to 2020, where Google Drive can fail for some of you but not others, you can’t access your passwords, and you can’t …
Transaction Monitoring | Upgrades and Use Cases in 2020
Synthetic monitoring takes care of all of the small interactions on our website that QA can’t catch. If you’re building an application for …
Got Game? Secrets of Great Incident Management
When his phone wakes him at two in the morning, operations engineer Andy Pearson knows it’s bad news. There’s a major server problem, …
December 2019 Outage Report
December was a busy month with systems we don’t normally see experiencing server downtime. Our first story, in particular, is an excellent example …
DevOps Conferences for 2020 | The Uptime.com Guide
Looking to up your DevOps skills, network, and hear talks from some of the brightest minds in the industry? Why not attend DevOps …
What We Learned About Uptime from 2019 Website Outages
One thing we’ve always known: there’s no such thing as 100% uptime for any website. Too many variables are at play to keep …