I've been using UptimeRobot for years. It's free, it works, and nearly every developer I know uses it. So when I started evaluating alternatives, I wasn't expecting much of a difference. What I found changed how I think about uptime monitoring entirely. The Alert Fatigue Problem After about a year of running UptimeRobot across a microservices setup, I noticed something: I was getting 2-3 false alerts per week. Not many, but enough that I started ignoring them during off-hours....