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Phase 19 · Monitoring & Logging

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Uptime Monitoring

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

External services that periodically ping your API from outside your infrastructure and alert you the moment it becomes unreachable — your last line of defense for knowing about outages immediately.

How to Learn This

  • 1Set up a free uptime monitor, e.g. UptimeRobot, pinging your deployed API.
  • 2Configure alerts via email or Slack when a check fails.
  • 3Understand why this must run from outside your own infrastructure to be meaningful.

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