It\u2019s 3 AM and you are roused out of sleep by the dull buzzing of your phone in the other room. Some sort of emergency, you conclude as you fumble with the lockscreen.<\/p>\n
There it is: an alert that the API governing user registration is acting up. Right around the time you sigh and think about a cuppa, you realize the clock has been ticking and you have a job to do.<\/p>\n
When we think about the lag between time of incident and time to respond, it\u2019s not just about how long the system went down. How long it physically takes us to respond to the problem also contributes to lost downtime.<\/p>\n
When we have instant access to technical information, our response time improves<\/a> and our overall uptime percentage remains higher than if we were caught flat-footed.<\/p>\n Uptime.com created a customizable dashboard system that brings that level of personalization to you and your organization.<\/p>\n Web monitoring dashboards from Uptime.com involve three components:<\/p>\n Today, we\u2019ll walk you through customizing the look and feel, ignoring alerts, making your most important check cards front and center, and other important functions. Whatever your priority, our robust Dashboard is ready for you.<\/p>\n It is now 3:05, the PC is booted and we are ready to go. First, we will need to review the alert for any technical details we can glean. We might want to know, for example, what other URLs are experiencing outages and whether our registration process is still intact.<\/p>\n We might then focus on other downtime alerts we observed for the period. Can we identify any trends in the downtime? Do any of these incidents show spikes in response time signalling an imminent outage?<\/p>\n With Uptime.com dashboards, we have rapid access to these technical details:<\/p>\n You locate the down check, review the alert, then you can click into the check for performance reporting or review.<\/p>\n With these three needs met we can focus on response. We are agile enough to react to fires, with the observability we need to notice outages as or even before they occur.<\/p>\n Before our 3AM fire ever started, we decided to create Dashboard 1: our wall of check cards. The goal was to create a web monitoring dashboard that included our most important monitors, which we displayed on a vertically rotated television monitor front and center in our office. We nicknamed it \u201cThe TARDIS\u201d and it is the command post of our IT department.<\/p>\n We exterminated the Metric Summary <\/b>and Latest Alerts<\/b> sections to achieve this goal.<\/p>\nWhat is a Website Monitoring Dashboard?<\/h2>\n
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Customizing Uptime.com Web Monitoring Dashboards<\/h2>\n
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Creating a Check Card Wall for Visibility<\/h3>\n