The detection gap is where silent failures compound — and most monitoring stacks have no answer for it. Here's the calculation nobody runs, and why detection time matters more than fix time.
You're a founder. You don't have an SRE on call at 2am. You have a laptop, a Slack, and the vague anxiety that something is quietly breaking right now. Here's the monitoring stack I wish I'd had from day one.
Most SaaS founders look at dashboards. The best ones get alerted. Here are the 10 metrics that matter most — and exactly what to alert on so you find out about problems before your users do.