Monitoring and Uptime Management
A website can become unavailable, slow or partially broken without anyone on your team knowing immediately. Monitoring helps identify these problems early, giving you visibility into the systems your website depends on.
We monitor the technical components that matter to your platform, including uptime, server resources, databases, APIs and critical functionality. Where appropriate, automated alerts can notify the relevant people when something falls outside the expected parameters.
The monitoring setup depends on your platform, infrastructure and business requirements. For more complex websites and applications, this can also include checks of important user journeys such as login, forms, checkout and other business-critical processes.
When an issue is detected, we investigate the cause, address the immediate problem and identify whether further technical work is needed.
Your Website Needs More Than a Basic Uptime Check
A basic uptime monitor can tell you whether a server responds to a request. It cannot always tell you whether the website is actually working. A website can return a successful response while a checkout is broken, an API has stopped communicating, a database is experiencing problems, or an important form is no longer submitting correctly.
Our monitoring approach looks beyond a simple server response. We consider the infrastructure, application and critical functionality that your business relies on, using the appropriate checks for your platform. Where monitoring identifies an issue, the information can then be used to investigate the underlying cause rather than simply confirming that something has gone wrong.
What Our Monitoring and Uptime Service Covers
We build the monitoring setup around the systems and functionality that are important to your business.
- Uptime monitoring: Checks that your website and important services remain accessible.
- Infrastructure monitoring: Server resources, application services and other infrastructure components can be monitored where required.
- Database health checks: Identifies database problems that could affect performance or availability.
- API monitoring: Checks important third-party and internal API connections.
- Critical user journeys: Important processes such as login, forms, or checkout can be monitored where appropriate.
- Automated alerts: Relevant technical issues can trigger alerts so they can be investigated quickly.
- Incident investigation: When something goes wrong, we investigate the cause and recommend the appropriate technical response.
Why Monitoring Needs to Go Beyond Uptime
A website can technically be online while still failing users.
A server may respond normally while an integration is returning errors. A database may become overloaded while the homepage continues to load. A checkout process can fail even though the rest of the website appears completely normal.
This is why we look at the parts of the platform that actually matter to the business, rather than relying only on a basic uptime check.
For websites with important customer journeys, monitoring can be configured around specific functionality and technical dependencies. This provides a clearer picture of whether the platform is actually operating as expected.
What You Get
- Monitoring configured around your platform and infrastructure.
- Uptime and availability checks.
- Server and infrastructure monitoring where appropriate.
- Database health checks.
- API and integration monitoring.
- Critical functionality checks where required.
- Automated alerts for relevant issues.
- Technical investigation when problems are detected.
- Incident information and recommendations for follow-up work.
The Business Problems This Solves
Technical problems are often discovered by customers before they are discovered internally.
A broken form can stop enquiries. A failed payment integration can prevent transactions. An API failure can stop data from reaching another system. A database problem can gradually turn into wider performance or availability issues.
Without monitoring, these problems may remain unnoticed until someone reports them.
Monitoring gives your team greater visibility into the technical health of the platform and allows problems to be investigated earlier. It does not prevent every incident, but it can reduce the time between a problem occurring and someone becoming aware of it.
If you rely on your website or application for enquiries, transactions, customer accounts or other important business processes, we can assess what should be monitored and how.
Know When Something Goes Wrong
Automated checks can identify availability, infrastructure or application problems without relying on customers to report them.
Monitor More Than the Homepage
Important websites often depend on APIs, databases, forms, authentication and other services. These can be monitored individually where appropriate.
Investigate Problems Faster
Useful monitoring data gives our development team more information about what happened and where to start investigating.
Understand Platform Health
Regular monitoring provides a clearer picture of how the platform is behaving over time and can highlight issues that deserve further technical attention.
CASE STUDIES
Monitoring and Uptime Management in Practice
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If you need better visibility into your website or application, we can assess the current platform and recommend what should be monitored.
FAQ
Your Monitoring Questions Answered
We know website monitoring raises important questions. Here are clear answers for UK business owners and marketing leaders.
How quickly do you respond when an alert is triggered?
The response process depends on the monitoring setup and support arrangement. We can define appropriate alerting and response procedures based on the importance of the platform and the type of issues being monitored.
What is the difference between uptime monitoring and transaction monitoring?
Uptime monitoring checks whether a website or service is accessible. Transaction or user journey monitoring goes further by checking whether specific functionality is actually working, such as login, form submission or checkout.
Do you monitor websites overnight and at weekends?
Monitoring itself can run continuously, depending on the configuration. Response and support outside normal business hours depend on the support arrangement agreed for the platform.
Will I receive uptime reports?
Reporting can be included where it is useful for your business. This can include uptime data, detected incidents, response information and other relevant monitoring metrics.
What happens if a problem cannot be fixed remotely?
We investigate the issue and work with your hosting provider, infrastructure team or other technical partners where necessary. We can also identify what further access or technical intervention is required.
Is this service only for websites you built?
No. We can monitor and support websites and applications built by other agencies. We start by reviewing the existing platform, infrastructure and technical setup so we understand what we are taking responsibility for.
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