Uptime

Uptime articles

How to monitor uptime with HTTP and TCP checks, catch outages early, and understand what your monitors are telling you.

Uptime monitoring: HTTP vs TCP checks, and how often to run them

Not all uptime checks are equal. Here's the difference between HTTP and TCP monitoring, how to pick check intervals, and what actually counts as "down."

Kevin Langley Jr Jun 13, 2026 2 min read