The blog
Practical guides on monitoring, security, and what we learn from running sites for others.
Why website monitoring is essential for every business
Most outages cost more than the engineering hours to prevent them. Here is how monitoring pays for itself within weeks.
How Cloudflare actually protects your website (and what it cannot do alone)
A practical look at the four layers Cloudflare adds in front of your origin — and the gaps that monitoring closes.
What actually happens when your website goes down
A minute-by-minute breakdown of an outage — the technical, the financial, and the human.
How automatic website protection works under the hood
A look at the three signals our auto-protection engine watches, and how it decides when to act.
Seven signs your website needs better security right now
If you recognise three or more of these patterns in your traffic, you are likely already under attack.
Uptime monitoring vs. security monitoring — and why you need both
They sound similar. They catch completely different problems. Here is the line between them.
Reduce downtime, protect revenue: a CFO's guide to monitoring
Stop treating monitoring as an IT cost line. Here is how to put it on the revenue side.
Understanding DDoS attacks: from packet floods to slow drips
Not all DDoS attacks look alike. The defence depends on the type — here are the four common shapes and how to mitigate each.