Monitoring Tutorials
Step-by-step guides to help you set up and optimize your monitoring stack.
WordPress Monitoring, Honestly: What to Watch and What to Skip
Most WordPress monitoring guides promise the moon — Core Web Vitals, real-user analytics, synthetic browser tests from twenty cities. This one is the honest version: here's what's worth watching, what we actually monitor, and what we don't.
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.
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.
When Your Host Says Everything Is Fine, But Your Site Is Slow
The support ticket says 'load is normal, all systems green.' Your site takes 4 seconds to render the homepage. Here's how to actually find the bottleneck and stop accepting 'it's fine on our end' as an answer.
Monitor 50 Client WordPress Sites for Under $30 a Month
A 2-person WordPress agency told us they were paying $410/month to monitor 47 client sites. After we walked through the math, they moved to Netwarden Pro for $29.90 — saved $4,560 in their first year and got better visibility than they had before.
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.
The Small-Team and Homelab Monitoring Playbook
Most monitoring guides are written for 200-engineer SRE orgs. This one is written for the rest of us — the solo dev, the small IT shop, the homelabber with 1-25 boxes who needs real alerts without standing up a five-service monitoring stack.
Alerts That Actually Page You: A Practical Guide to Not Crying Wolf
I once paged my own team at 3 AM because a Proxmox node hit 91% CPU for fourteen seconds during a backup window. The alert was working. The alert was also useless. Here's the playbook I wish I'd had.
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.