How to Monitor Third-Party Dependencies in 2026

<p>What to say during an outage, how often to say it, and templates for each stage of an incident. Clear, honest updates cost you far less trust than the outage itself.</p>

<p>A status page is the public page where you tell customers how your service is doing. Here is what goes on one, when to make it public, and how to set one up in minutes.</p>

<p>What uptime monitoring actually checks, the difference between HTTP, keyword, heartbeat and TCP checks, and how to avoid the false-positive alerts that train people to ignore