Cron jobs handle a lot of background plumbing that keep applications running smoothly. But cron job failures often go unnoticed and be disastrous for your users and business. To make

APIs are the backbone of software products. Whether the APIs are customer facing or for internal use, making sure that your APIs are up and running is crucial. In this

Bugsnag is an error tracking tool that monitors exceptions in your applications and shows them in an easy-to-use dashboard. It also shows you the stability score to help you keep

Rollbar is an error tracking product that monitors your applications for errors and helps you take action on them. Rollbar also integrates with other products so you can send the

Sentry is one of the most popular error tracking tools, which monitors your application for errors and exceptions. Sentry also has an open source version of the product that you

When you start researching how to improve the reliability of your software, you will soon run into terms like SLOs and SLAs. It can sound intimidating, but it's quite straightforward

Background We recently released the biggest overhaul to one of the core features of Spike.sh - On-call schedules. Software teams use on-call schedules to designate first responders who will

Python is one of the most popular languages in the world, used for everything from data science to web applications. And one of the reasons is the rich library of

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Adding alerts across your monitoring tools is taking a proactive approach to reliability. But if there are too many alerts, then it can become counterproductive because team members will start