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What Makes a Great Status Page: Examples & Best Practices
A status page is one of the most visible things you'll build for your product — and most of them are bad. Here's what separates a useful status page from a checkbox exercise.
5 Signs Your Website Monitoring Setup Is Failing You
Most teams think they have monitoring. They set it up once, it sends alerts occasionally, they feel covered. Then a customer reports that the API has been down for two hours.
How to Set Up Slack Alerts for Website Downtime
If your team lives in Slack, your monitoring alerts should too. This step-by-step guide walks through connecting Upscano to Slack in under 10 minutes.
What Is a Status Page and Why Does Your Team Need One?
A status page is a public-facing webpage that displays the real-time operational status of your services. When something breaks, your users go there first — before they email support.
What Is DAST? A Practical Guide for DevOps Teams
DAST stands for Dynamic Application Security Testing. It finds security vulnerabilities in a running web application by sending it crafted requests — the same way an attacker would.
How to Monitor Your Website's Uptime (2026 Guide)
Website downtime costs real money. This guide covers what uptime monitoring is, how it works, what you should be measuring, and how to pick a tool that fits your stack.