10 Monitoring Mistakes I Made (So You Don’t Have To)

Let’s be honest — most of us don’t set up monitoring until something goes wrong.

I’ve been there. Multiple times.

Here are 10 mistakes I made when it comes to monitoring, so you don’t have to repeat them 👇

🚨 1. No Monitoring at All

“It's just a side project, what could go wrong?”

→ Everything.

🔕 2. No Alerts

Monitoring without alerts is just… logging.

🎯 3. Monitoring the Wrong Things

I used to monitor the homepage, while the API was down for hours.

🌍 4. Not Monitoring External Dependencies

Your app might be fine.

But if Stripe, Supabase, or your auth provider is down — your users don’t care why.

🕶️ 5. No Public Status Page

When something breaks, users just see… silence.

No trust. No updates. Just frustration.

📉 6. No Historical Reporting

I had no idea if my “99.9% uptime” claim was even real.

No proof = no trust.

🧪 7. No Incident Communication

The downtime wasn’t the issue — the silence was.

People just want to know what’s going on.

🤯 8. Overcomplicating Everything

I spent hours configuring Prometheus, Grafana, scripts, exporters — when all I wanted was alerts and a clean status page.

💸 9. Paying Too Much

Some tools charged $40+/mo for basic uptime monitoring.

That’s more than I paid for hosting.

🧩 10. Using 4 Tools for 1 Problem

Monitoring, alerts, incident logs, reports, status page…

I had separate tools for each. Big mistake.

💡 The Fix: All-in-One, Simple Monitoring

I switched to Garmingo Status.

It gives me everything I need in one place:

✅ HTTP/Ping/Keyword/etc. monitoring

✅ Instant alerts (Slack, Email, etc.)

✅ Public status page

✅ Incident tracking

✅ Monthly SLA reports

✅ All that – with a forever free plan

👉 https://garmingo.com/status#free-demo

TL;DR:

Don’t wait for things to break before you think about monitoring.

Start small. Start now.

And for the love of uptime — don’t make these 10 mistakes 😅

Got your own horror story? I’d love to hear it 👇