Most monitoring tools check whether your website loads. That's the baseline and it misses an entire category of infrastructure failure that happens behind the HTTP response code. Last week Netglare shipped TCP port monitoring, DNS record monitoring and JSON response validation in the same week. Here's what that means for how the product is positioned and why it matters for the people using it.

Most monitoring tools check whether your endpoints respond. That's the standard and it misses an entire category of failure: the endpoint that responds correctly but returns the wrong thing. A server returning the wrong answer with a smile on its face is still broken. Here's what we shipped today to fix that.

Nobody goes into conservation because they're passionate about web development. But the website is the thing that needs to exist so the rest of the work can reach the people who should care about it. We built that website for one of Kenya's most important conservation projects in eight weeks and learned something important about what conservation technology actually requires.

Most SaaS products ask for too much before delivering anything worth staying for. Netglare's old onboarding wizard asked for twelve form fields before showing anyone a dashboard. 0.13% of signups made it through.