Simple Monitoring Insights

WordPress Monitoring, Honestly: What to Watch and What to Skip

A practical guide to monitoring a WordPress site with the Netwarden agent and WP plugin — uptime, response time, PHP errors, plugin updates, failed logins, MySQL health. No fluff, no fake features.

Sentry alternatives without per-event bills

Sentry's pricing punishes you for being popular. Here's a direct comparison of Bugsnag, Highlight, Rollbar, and Netwarden Apps — with honest pricing math at 100K, 1M, and 10M events/month.

Self-hosted error tracking that fits in a single binary

Self-hosted Sentry takes 23 containers and a kubelet. GlitchTip needs Postgres, Redis, and Celery. SigNoz pulls in ClickHouse. There is a fourth option: one Bun binary, SQLite, no Docker required. Honest comparison of self-hosted error trackers in 2026.

Announcing Netwarden Apps (alpha): error tracking that also tells you when next ships a CVE

Netwarden Apps is in alpha. Error tracking, OSV.dev-backed dependency alerts, and lite analytics — JavaScript / Node and Python SDKs, fixed monthly pricing, self-hostable in the same Bun binary as the host monitor. Here's what shipped, why we built it, and where we drew the line.

Self-Hosting Netwarden: The Single-Binary Preview

An open-beta preview of the self-hosted Netwarden edition: one binary compiled with Bun, SQLite inside, no Postgres, no Redis, no cloud. Honest notes on what's in, what's out, and how to run it on your own box.

When Your Host Says Everything Is Fine, But Your Site Is Slow

Your hosting provider's status page is green. Your site takes 4 seconds to load. Here's a real diagnosis playbook to find the bottleneck — TTFB, render-blocking CSS, slow MySQL, or DNS — and fix it for good.

Monitor 50 Client WordPress Sites for Under $30 a Month

A practical playbook for small WordPress agencies. How to monitor 25-50 client sites on Netwarden Pro at $29.90/month, with white-label reports, per-client tagging, and honest cost comparisons against ManageWP, MainWP, and Jetpack.

The Small-Team and Homelab Monitoring Playbook

A pragmatic, opinionated guide to monitoring 1-25 hosts without standing up Prometheus, Grafana, and a queue. Covers what to watch, what to skip, and how to set alerts that don't wake you up for nothing.

Alerts That Actually Page You: A Practical Guide to Not Crying Wolf

Most monitoring alerts are noise. Here's how to design threshold + duration alerts that wake you up for real problems and stay quiet the rest of the time — with real homelab and WordPress examples.

How Netwarden's Security Wedge Works

Most monitoring tools don't surface security signals. Most security tools don't surface monitoring signals. We built one tool that does both — because the people we sell to don't want to pay for two. Here's how the security wedge actually works under the hood.

Migrating from Sentry to Netwarden in 30 minutes

If you've decided to leave Sentry, here's the concrete 30-minute path to swap @sentry/browser for @netwarden/sdk. Most of it is search-and-replace.

Error tracking for Vercel apps: errors, dependencies, and analytics in one

If your Next.js app lives on Vercel, error tracking should be five lines plus a build env var. Here's the concrete setup — Edge runtime, instrumentation.ts, source-map upload — for a stack that doesn't bill per event.

A Dependabot alternative that actually pings you when a CVE drops

Dependabot files PRs no one reads. Snyk's per-developer pricing locks out solo devs. OSV-Scanner is a CLI you have to remember to run. Here's what each one trades off — and what it looks like when the CVE alert actually pings your phone.

Raspberry Pi Home Server Monitoring in 2026

Your Pi is doing real work. It runs Plex, blocks ads for the whole house, and tells the lights to dim at sunset. Here's how to monitor it properly without an entire observability stack swallowing the SD card.

Self-Hosted Uptime Monitoring: The Honest Pingdom Alternative

Pingdom is $15/month minimum and treats you like a Fortune 500. The free alternatives are real, they're good, and none of them is the right answer for everyone. Here's the honest version.

Monitor a Proxmox Cluster Without Datadog (or a Second Mortgage)

The Proxmox web UI shows you graphs. It does not text you when a VM dies at 3 AM. Here's how to fix that without paying $15/host/month to a vendor that thinks 'small business' means 500 nodes.

WordPress Uptime Monitoring on a Budget: A Freelancer's Buyer's Guide

A freelance WordPress dev with 12 client sites doesn't need a $200/month monitoring stack. They need to know when a site is down, when a plugin update broke things, and when the database is dragging pages to a crawl. Here's how to do that for under $10/month.

Why I Built Netwarden — A Homelab Story

I didn't set out to build a monitoring company. I set out to stop getting bitten by my own homelab. This is the short version of how that turned into Netwarden — what I wanted, what I couldn't get from existing tools, and what's deliberately not in the product yet.

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