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

Probes, Locations, and Regions

Three words that look interchangeable but aren't — what each one means in openstatus and how they fit together.

Understanding Private Locations

What a private location is, when to use one, how it talks to openstatus, and how it differs from a public probe.

Understanding Status Reports and Incidents

How openstatus separates detecting a problem (incidents) from communicating it (status reports and maintenance windows), and how report updates drive your status page.

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