Stop Relying Entirely on Uptime Kuma for Incident Response

Short summary

Uptime Kuma excels at reachability monitoring but can't explain performance degradation or internal system issues. Pair it with systems monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Alloy to see CPU, disk IO, memory, and other internal metrics. Use both: reachability monitoring detects failures; systems metrics explain why they occurred.

• •Uptime Kuma checks if services are reachable; it can't diagnose slowness or internal resource contention
• •Systems monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana, Alloy) provide internal visibility into CPU, disk IO, memory, and performance
• •Mature infrastructure requires both approaches: external checks catch outages, internal metrics prevent them

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