<b>Q: My monitor keeps reporting downtime that wasn't real. How do I stop the false alarms?</b>

<b>Q: My monitor keeps reporting downtime that wasn't real. How do I stop the false alarms?</b>

A: The fix is almost always confirmation logic, not a different provider. One failed check from one location proves nothing. The internet drops packets constantly.

Set your monitor to confirm a failure from at least 2 separate locations before it counts as down. Good services call this "re-check from another node." If 3 of 4 regions can reach you and one can't, that's their network, not your outage.

Then add a consecutive-failure threshold: 2-3 fails in a row before paging. Together these two rules kill the vast majority of phantom alerts without meaningfully delaying real ones.

You'll probably ask next: does this slow down real detection? By only seconds usually, which is a great trade for not crying wolf.

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