Two regions failing the same check within four seconds of each other. The clock starts at that confirmation, not at the first failed check, and it stops at the first successful one. The definition is the same on your status page as in your dashboard.
Questions engineers actually ask
Where do the checks run from?
Six regions: Virginia, Oregon, Frankfurt, London, Singapore and São Paulo. A monitor is checked from all six on rotation and a failure is always confirmed from a different continent before anything is sent.
What counts as downtime?
Two regions failing the same check within four seconds of each other. The clock starts at that confirmation, not at the first failed check, and it stops at the first successful one. The definition is the same on your status page as in your dashboard.
How many alerts will I get?
One per incident, to the on-call person for that monitor. Everything downstream of a failed dependency is grouped into the same incident rather than alerting separately. Teams report about three false alerts a month.
What happens when Dithy is down?
Alerting runs in a separate path from the dashboard, so the dashboard can be down while alerts keep flowing. When both go, you get a message from the backup path and a public post-mortem inside a week. Both of last year’s are already published.
Do you charge per user?
No. Team members are unlimited and free on every tier including the free one. Pricing is per monitor, monthly, with no annual commitment and no enterprise tier that unlocks features.
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