RMON
- How to set up your Time zone
- How to create a Telegram bot and use it with RMON
- How to create a Slack APP and use it with RMON
- How to create PagerDuty Integration key and use it with RMON
- Notifications and alerting
- Status pages
- Security checklist
- Company sign-in with OIDC
- Get started with the RMON API
- Backup and recovery
- How to use groups and roles
- How to change user settings
Servers
Monitoring, minus
the guesswork.
Practical ideas for checks that mean something, alerts that help, and monitoring you can trust. With the occasional joke at HTTP 200’s expense.
RMON 1.4: monitoring that asks better questions
A green server is a good start. A working service is the goal. Meet the checks, locations and secure result delivery behind the updated RMON.
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Compare network, API and browser checks, distinguish synthetic tests from real-user monitoring, and build your first useful check in RMON.
How to Monitor Website Uptime: A Practical Guide
Choose the right URL, place a check on a useful network, define a healthy response and verify that failure and recovery reach your team.
SSL Certificate Monitoring: Catch Expiration Before Your Users Do
Monitor the certificate your endpoint actually serves, choose useful warning periods and verify renewal from the locations that matter.
Website Down? A Troubleshooting Checklist
Follow the failed request through DNS, connectivity, TLS and HTTP. Use the location, timestamp and error to choose the next useful diagnostic step.
Self-Hosted vs Cloud Monitoring: How to Choose
Compare network access, operational control, recurring costs and recovery responsibilities before choosing where your monitoring should run.
How to Monitor Internal Services Behind a Firewall
Place agents where private services are reachable, plan the required connections and verify checks without publishing the target to the internet.
“Works from here” is not an uptime strategy
Your office, your cloud and your customers can see three different versions of “up.” Choose monitoring locations that explain the difference.
mTLS for monitoring: both sides show ID
What mutual TLS changes between an RMON agent and its result receiver, how to roll it out, and why certificates still need a calendar.
Alerts should start a response, not a group chat
Build an alert that tells someone what failed, where to look and what to do next. Then test the route before the service tests it for you.
HTTP 200 is not a health certificate
A login page, a maintenance message and a healthy API can all return 200. Teach your HTTP check to tell them apart.