Notes on uptime,
done right
Reliability deep-dives, alerting know-how, and honest product updates from the team building Tallwatch.
Free uptime monitoring you can run in production
Most free monitoring is a trial wearing a free badge. Here is what the Tallwatch free tier includes, and why we made it genuinely usable.
The best uptime monitoring services in 2026
An honest, opinionated guide to the uptime tools worth your time, what each one is genuinely best at, and how to pick the right one.
Boring on purpose: building a monitor you can trust
A tool that watches your reliability has to be reliable itself. The design instincts that earn that, none of them clever.
Designing status pages your customers actually trust
A status page is the one thing customers look at on your worst day. A few opinions on making yours read as honest, not as damage control.
Multi-region monitoring, explained
Multi-region means two different things, and most homepages do not tell you which. Here is how to spot the difference before you buy.
How Tallwatch stops false alerts
Most teams say the majority of their alerts are false positives. Here is the thinking that fixes that, in plain terms, without the database internals.
What is Tallwatch?
Tallwatch is uptime monitoring that only pages you when an outage is real. Here is what it does, who it is for, and why I built it this way.