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Beyond HTTP: WebSockets, Databases, and AI Services

Your live dashboard stops updating. Your chat application goes silent. Every HTTP check you have says the server is perfectly healthy. The problem is a broken WebSocket connection — and standard HTTP checks will never see it. As modern application

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TLS, HTTP, and the Full Request Lifecycle

“The site is slow.” That sentence tells you almost nothing. Slow where? Slow for whom? Is it the network, the server, the certificate negotiation, the DNS resolver? A single, well-constructed HTTP check answers all of those questions simultaneously — by

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The Foundation: ICMP, DNS, and TCP

The Foundation: ICMP, DNS, and TCP Every synthetic monitoring strategy is built on three protocols. Not because they’re the newest or the most sophisticated — but because they answer the three questions that matter most before anything else can be

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