An uptime monitor that knows the difference between a blip and an outage
A new uptime monitoring system improves alert management by bundling multiple alerts into a daily digest. This system distinguishes between minor blips and actual outages, reducing unnecessary notifications. Recovery emails are only sent when an original alert was issued, ensuring clarity in communication.
- ▪The system bundles alerts into a daily digest if the same site experiences issues multiple times within 24 hours.
- ▪It includes failure and recovery counts, as well as timestamps and likely-cause checklists.
- ▪Recovery notifications are suppressed if the original alert was not sent.
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If the same (site, problem) opens and recovers three or more times in 24 hours, the system stops sending individual alerts and bundles them into one daily digest per site — with failure/recovery counts, first/last seen times, and likely-cause checklists. Recovery emails fire only when the original alert was actually sent. If it was held back (cooldown, suspected, flapping summary, or quiet hours), the corresponding recovery is suppressed too. You never get “great news, your site is back up” for an outage you weren't told about.
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