February 17, 2026 StatusDude vs Uptime Kuma — When Self-Hosting Your Monitor Is the Problem Uptime Kuma is great until your server goes down and your monitoring goes with it. Here's when SaaS monitoring makes more sense than self-hosting.
February 15, 2026 From Celery to ARQ to 'Screw It, I'll Build My Own': A Task Queue Journey How I went from Celery + gevent to ARQ to a custom three-layer architecture for monitoring 50,000+ websites. A story of ghost tasks, per-task Redis overhead, and the joy of deleting 234 lines of configuration.
February 10, 2026 Uptime Monitoring Best Practices for SaaS Startups Learn the essential uptime monitoring best practices for SaaS startups. From choosing check intervals to reducing false positives, this guide covers everything you need to keep your services reliable.
February 9, 2026 Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose — No Kubernetes Required We tried Traefik for zero-downtime deploys. It dropped requests, returned 404s, and couldn't retry on a different backend. HAProxy fixed everything in 60 lines of config.
February 6, 2026 SSL Certificate Monitoring: Why It Matters and How to Set It Up Learn why SSL certificate monitoring is critical for your website's security and uptime. Understand common SSL failures, how automatic monitoring works, and how to prevent certificate expiry outages.
February 3, 2026 How to Monitor Kubernetes Services Automatically in 2026 A practical guide to automatic Kubernetes service monitoring. Learn how to use auto-discovery to monitor Ingresses, Services, and HTTPRoutes without manual configuration.
January 30, 2026 How to Reduce False Positive Alerts in Uptime Monitoring False positive alerts destroy trust in your monitoring system. Learn what causes them, how multi-region verification eliminates most false alarms, and practical strategies to reduce alert fatigue.
January 28, 2026 StatusDude vs UptimeRobot vs Better Stack — An Honest Comparison Comparing uptime monitoring tools: features, pricing, and real trade-offs. Where StatusDude wins, where it doesn't, and how to pick the right tool for your stack.
January 25, 2026 How to Set Up a Public Status Page for Your SaaS A complete guide to setting up a public status page for your SaaS product. Learn why status pages matter, what to include, and how to automate status updates with uptime monitoring.
January 20, 2026 Monitoring Your Private Network Without Exposing It to the Internet How to monitor internal services, databases, and APIs behind firewalls using StatusDude's private agents — no inbound ports, no VPN tunnels, no exposed endpoints.
January 12, 2026 Auto-Discovering Kubernetes Services for Monitoring — Without the YAML Circus How StatusDude's agent auto-discovers Ingresses, Services, and HTTPRoutes in your K8s cluster and creates monitors automatically. One token, zero YAML.
January 5, 2026 What Happens When Your Monitoring Goes Down? Our Self-Monitoring Architecture Who monitors the monitor? How StatusDude's cloud workers auto-register heartbeat monitors, use dedicated queues, and detect their own failures across regions.
December 28, 2025 Multi-Region Monitoring — Why Checking From One Location Isn't Enough Regional outages, CDN issues, DNS propagation — why single-location monitoring gives you false positives and blind spots, and how multi-region checks solve it.