Synthetic monitoring vs uptime monitoring: why 'all green' can still mean broken
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Your status page is green. Your uptime monitor says 100%. And your signup form has been throwing a JavaScript error for six hours. Both things are true at once, and that is the whole problem with relying on uptime monitoring alone: it checks that your server is answering the phone, not that anything useful happens when it does. The dashboard that makes you feel safe can be green through an outage that is quietly costing you every new customer.