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Aug 28, 2026 · 2 min read
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Engineering
Why We Wait for Two Failures Before Calling a Site Down
A single failed check is usually a network hiccup, not an outage. Here is the reasoning behind the 2-strike rule, and what it costs.
Aug 23, 2026 · 2 min read
Guides
Choosing a Check Interval That Actually Matches What a Site Is Worth
Every 60 seconds or every hour — the right interval depends on what happens in the minutes before you find out, not on picking the fastest option by default.
Aug 18, 2026 · 2 min read
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What Your Incident History Is Actually Telling You
Every outage is logged with when it started, when it recovered, how long it lasted and what caused it. Here is how to read that log for patterns, not just individual outages.
Aug 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Engineering
Five Ways a Check Can Fail, and Why We Tell Them Apart
Knowing a site is down is half the information. Knowing whether it is a DNS failure or a timeout is the half that tells you where to look.
Aug 8, 2026 · 2 min read
Engineering
Why Every Timestamp Is Shown in Your Own Timezone
An alert that says a site went down at 2:20 AM UTC makes you do arithmetic before you can even understand what it is telling you. So we do the arithmetic instead.
Aug 3, 2026 · 2 min read
Product Updates
Response-Time Charts: Watching Performance, Not Just Uptime
A site can be "up" and still be getting slower every day. The response-time chart on every monitor is how you catch that before it becomes an outage.
Jul 29, 2026 · 2 min read
Product Updates
Every Account Runs on Its Own Clock
Timezone is a setting on your account, not a fixed default you have to work around. Set it once and every timestamp in the product follows.
Jul 24, 2026 · 1 min read
Product Updates
Why Alerts Are Email-Only (For Now)
One alert channel, done properly, beats three half-built ones. Here is why email is the only way StatusLoom notifies you today, and what that buys.
Jul 19, 2026 · 1 min read
Guides
Reading a Response-Time Chart: What a Slow Climb Is Telling You
A flat line near zero is boring on purpose. Here is what the shapes that aren't flat usually mean, and when to actually act on them.
Jul 14, 2026 · 2 min read
Guides
The Real Cost of Checking Every Site Every Minute
You can set every monitor to 1 minute. Here is what that actually buys you over 5, 10, or 60, and where the returns stop being worth it.
Jul 9, 2026 · 2 min read
Guides
TooManyRedirects and BlockedAddress: Two Failure Codes Nobody Expects
Timeout and DNS failure make sense immediately. These two don't — until you've hit them once, and then you never forget what they mean.
Jul 4, 2026 · 2 min read