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.
Automation workflows fail silently. A broken Zapier zap, a stalled n8n workflow, or a Make scenario that stopped running three days ago — none of these show up in your uptime monitor. Here's how to catch them.
Your Shopify store can be losing revenue right now and your dashboard will show green. This guide covers what to monitor, what to alert on, and how to catch the silent failures that cost e-commerce stores the most money.
Your server is up. Your uptime monitor is green. But your cron job silently stopped running 3 days ago — and nobody told you. Here's why uptime checks miss this entirely, and what actually works.
Stripe webhooks fail silently. Your server looks fine, your API is up, but payments are being processed with no record in your database. Here's how to catch it before it costs you.
Most monitoring tools alert you when something breaks. Silence alerts tell you when something that should be happening has stopped — and that's often the more expensive failure.