May 4, 2026
Silence is the feature: why we don't send a daily 'everything is fine' email
Most monitoring tools send daily summaries by default. We deliberately don't, because they teach users to ignore the alerts that actually matter.
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Most monitoring tools send daily summaries by default. We deliberately don't, because they teach users to ignore the alerts that actually matter.
Read postMost monitoring tools brag about 30-second checks. We deliberately don't. Here's the engineering and operational reasoning behind our 5-minute interval.
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