Blog
Notes from the Status Harbor team - uptime monitoring, private-network observability and what we ship.
Catching silent cron failures with heartbeat monitoring
Cron jobs fail silently. Learn the dead man's switch pattern and how to instrument any scheduled job with a single curl to catch missed runs automatically.
July 14, 2026
Introducing Database Monitoring for Status Harbor
Status Harbor now monitors PostgreSQL and MySQL/MariaDB via the Lighthouse agent - no new agent, no inbound ports, no database exposed to the internet. Live health with incidents, a graded config audit with copy-paste remediation SQL, on-demand slow queries and a config-fitness verdict.
July 12, 2026
Introducing Metrics: Real-Time Host Observability for Your Lighthouse Agents
Metrics turns every Lighthouse agent into a host observability probe - real-time CPU, memory, load, disk and network charts, threshold alert rules with previews, per-host snoozes and a firing-alerts timeline, all in the same dashboard as your uptime checks.
June 19, 2026
How to Monitor Services Behind a Firewall Without Opening Inbound Ports
Monitor services behind a firewall, VPN or VPC subnet without opening inbound ports — the outbound-only agent pattern, design choices and trade-offs.
May 17, 2026
UptimeRobot Alternative with simple Telegram integration and Private Network Monitoring
An honest UptimeRobot alternative for indie devs: native Telegram alerts, private-network monitoring via a Lighthouse agent and 1-minute checks from $5/mo.
May 16, 2026