SPEC · monitoring-alerting
Monitoring & Alerting Setup
Right now, customers tell you when you are down. That should be embarrassing enough to fix, and the fix takes under two weeks.
price $2,000 to $3,500timeline 1 to 2 weeks
Monitoring projects usually die from ambition: fifty dashboards, a thousand alerts, all ignored within a month. I set up the opposite. A small number of checks that map to "can customers use the product", alerts tuned so that every page is real, and dashboards someone will actually open. Built on Better Stack or your existing tooling.
What's included
- Uptime checks for public endpoints and key user flows
- Infrastructure and application health checks where they earn their keep
- Alert routing to Slack and phone with escalation, tuned against false positives
- One or two dashboards covering availability, errors, and saturation
- Runbook stubs for each alert: what it means, first three things to check
What's not included
Fixed prices only work with honest boundaries. Here is where this project ends:
- Full observability replatforming or log pipeline redesign (I will scope that separately if you want it)
- Custom application instrumentation beyond what alerting needs
- 24/7 on-call. The alerts go to your team, not me.
Deliverables
- Working checks, alerts, and dashboards in your accounts
- Alert inventory: every alert, its threshold, and why it exists
- Runbook stubs in your wiki or repo
Timeline
1 to 2 weeks depending on how much surface area you have.
What I need from you
- Access to your hosting/cloud accounts and a monitoring tool account (I can recommend one)
- A short list of "if this breaks, we lose money" flows