Website Monitoring

Last Updated: 2026-02-06

What We Monitor

digiBandit monitors client websites for availability and traffic health using a two-layer approach:

Traffic Analysis - We track visitor patterns using privacy-friendly analytics. When a site that normally receives regular traffic suddenly drops to zero, that's often an early warning sign of a problem (broken pages, SSL issues, CDN problems, DNS failures).
HTTP Health Checks - When a traffic anomaly is detected, we automatically verify the site is reachable. This confirms whether the issue is a real outage or just a quiet day.

How Alerts Work

When our system detects a potential issue:

The site's traffic pattern is compared against its 7-day baseline
If traffic has dropped to zero on a site that normally gets visitors, an HTTP check runs
If the HTTP check also fails, the team is alerted immediately
We investigate and begin remediation, often before anyone notices the site is down

What Triggers an Alert

Condition	Action
Normal traffic, site responds	No action needed
Low-traffic site (< 5 visitors/day)	Monitored but excluded from anomaly alerts
Traffic drop + site responds	Flagged as warning, investigated
Traffic drop + site unreachable	Alert sent to team, immediate investigation

Check Frequency

Check Type	Frequency	Coverage
Traffic analysis	Every 4 hours	All client websites with analytics
HTTP health checks	On-demand (when anomaly detected)	Flagged sites only
Infrastructure monitoring	Every 5 minutes	digiBandit internal services

Status Page

A live status page is maintained at Services/Website_Status.md in this repository. It is updated automatically every 4 hours with the current health of all monitored sites.

Questions?

Contact digiBandit at (506) 404-0055 or through your usual support channel.

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