Concepts

Overview

Understand uptime monitoring, latency vs response time, SLA calculations, and the design decisions behind openstatus.

Understanding Uptime Monitoring

A deep dive into uptime monitoring concepts, architecture, and best practices

Building Trust with Status Pages

Understanding how to communicate effectively during incidents and build user trust through transparency.

Uptime Calculation and Shared Values

Understand how openstatus calculates uptime — absolute (duration or requests) and manual modes — and choose which values to share on your status page.

Understanding Monitoring as Code

Why and how to manage monitoring configuration as code for GitOps workflows

Understanding Latency vs Response Time

Deep dive into the difference between latency and response time, and why both matter for monitoring