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As a small business, we at Monitive understand the importance of being mindful of both the past and the future. We've been in the uptime monitoring business for almost 13 years now and we are proud to say that in 2022, we had a decent financial performance. As

Happy new year! 🎉 It's 2022, and even though not much has changed in the past year, I'm happy to know that Monitive is running smoothly and brings value to our customers. For the first quarter of 2022 our main focus is fixing issues, either bugs we

Get instant notifications on your Telegram-enabled devices, right from our Monitive Telegram bot, every time your website goes down. And when it come back up. Unlimited and free.

Just launched: Push notifications via Pushover. Get outage and recovery alerts on all your devices, wherever you are...

Just launched outage and recovery alerts via Slack, right into your team's workspace and across all your Slack-enabled devices.

Unlimited Status Pages now available for all Monitive Pro users. Build trust, showcase reliability and inform your users of downtime in a professional way.

Between static websites and Wordpress, you’ll find Ghost, a publishing platform simple enough to enjoy using and powerful enough to get the word across.

This morning we launched 22 new monitoring locations. The actual launch went smooth. Until it didn't.

Learn how to monitor an API by doing an HTTP POST request to it every minute and instantly be notified when it goes down.

Since June 2020, when we launched the new Monitive, we have the same monitoring network of 8 locations. It’s time to expand.

A feature that’s not available in the Monitive service, but has proven to be a useful helper is the ability to quickly check a website from several locations around the world.

A sneak peek at how the new Monitive website will look like...

Logflare is a fast, light, scalable, and powerful logging aggregator. It has a simple and usable interface.

This is what I’ve learned in 10 years of running an uptime monitoring business detecting over 2 million outages for over 4k users around the world…

Reading through the Traffic Secrets book by Russell Brunson I found out about a very interesting tip of Gary Vaynerchuk: Document. Don’t create.

Inspired by Dirk Olbrich’s Hugo Starter Theme with Tailwind CSS this works by displaying a regular navigation bar on landscape tablets and desktop resolutions, but changes into a nice dropdown on mobile resolutions.

It’s been over 10 years now since Monitive exists and I find it somehow romantic to have the whole trail of adventures and challenges laid out in a single, public place.

Lumen PHP it a perfect candidate for building scalable and high-performance APIs. Until it isn’t.

There are 6 weeks left of 2020, which means it’s about time we wrap this year up, focus on what’s most important, and leave the nice-to-have endeavors for next year.

There are a lot of tools, apps and services. If you’ve been following Product Hunt, you already know that startups and new apps are being launched every single day.

As time goes by, I’m looking for solutions that require as little maintenance as possible. One of those is deploying our client web app and our homepage directly on the CDN edge, with GitHub Actions.

The day has come. After 10 years of running an uptime monitoring service, of which three years we spent in rewriting of the service. The new Monitive code-name “Freyja” is ready for the world to use.

It’s been a long journey since I decided that the current version of Monitive is just not good enough for our customers.

“Remember that guy that gave up? Neither does anybody else.”