Multi-region consensus
Page only when the regions agree
A single failed probe can be a bad path through the internet. Tallwatch opens an incident only when several regions report the same failure in the same round — so on-call trusts the page, and real outages still show up fast.
Several regions, every round
Each check runs from multiple vantage points in the same window. One path through the internet is never treated as the whole truth.
Agreement before a page
An incident opens only when at least two of the checked regions report the same failure. A single flaky probe cannot wake you alone.
Real outages still page fast
When your service is actually down, regions fail together. Consensus confirms that within about a minute — it does not wait for retries from one place.
On every plan, including Free
Consensus is the product, not an upsell. Three regions on Free; up to six on paid plans, with M-of-N tuning when you need it.
How it works
Three steps. One boring rule.
No model to mistune. No consecutive retries from the same place. Just parallel checks and a quorum.
01
Probe in parallel
Tallwatch hits your URL from the regions you chose in the same check round and records status and latency per region.
02
Compare the votes
Each region is a vote, not a verdict. A lone failure is noise. Matching failures across regions are signal.
03
Open the incident
Only when enough regions agree does Tallwatch open an incident, page on-call, and update your status page from the same event.
Why it matters
False alerts train people to ignore the pager
The expensive failure mode of monitoring is human, not technical. Consensus is how Tallwatch keeps the signal trustworthy.
Every tool can detect a failure. The hard part is being right when it wakes someone at 2am. A monitor that cries wolf does not crash — it trains the team to swipe alerts away until a real outage looks like noise.
Tallwatch is built for that problem. Consensus sits under monitors, incidents, alerts, and your status page— one shared rule for what “down” means.
Deeper reading: how Tallwatch stops false alerts, multi-region monitoring explained, and what Tallwatch is.
FAQ
Consensus, answered
The questions teams ask before they trust a new paging rule.
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