Weekly Better Stack monitor review and cleanup workbench

By General Input

See every uptime monitor in one table with its incident count, availability, and on call owner, then retune or retire it without leaving the page.

Integrations

  • Better Stack
  • Linear

Type

App

Categories

  • Engineering
  • Operations

Build me a monitor review workbench for Better Stack that my team works out of during our weekly reliability cleanup. Better Stack shows monitors one at a time, and we currently audit them in a spreadsheet that is stale the moment we paste it in. I want one screen that lists every monitor with the numbers that say whether it is earning its keep, plus the controls to fix it on the spot.

The main view is a single dense table with one row per monitor. Load the monitors with List Monitors and page through all of them. Each row shows the monitor name and the URL or host it checks, its current up, down, or paused state and its check frequency from the monitor record, the monitor group it belongs to from List Monitor Groups, its incident count and median incident duration over the last 30 days computed from List Incidents filtered to that monitor, its availability percentage from Get Monitor Availability (SLA), typical and worst response times from Get Monitor Response Times, and which escalation policy covers it from List Escalation Policies. Clicking a row opens a detail panel that pulls the full record with Get Monitor and lists that monitor's recent incidents underneath.

Flag every row so we can sort by what is actually hurting us. Flapping means 5 or more incidents in the last 30 days with a median duration under 5 minutes, which is the signature of a monitor that is too twitchy rather than a service that is truly broken. Unowned means no escalation policy is attached, so nobody gets paged when it fires. Asleep means the monitor has been paused for more than 30 days. Worst SLA highlights the monitors with the lowest availability over the window. Show the flags as compact chips in the row, keep every threshold adjustable in a settings popover rather than hard coded, and let me filter the table to a single flag or sort by incident count, availability, or worst response time.

Persist a review note and a reviewed on date per monitor inside the app, keyed by the monitor id. Notes are shared across the team rather than private to one person, and each note records who wrote it and when. When I mark a monitor reviewed, also snapshot its check frequency, paused state, group, escalation policy, and availability at that moment. The next session uses that snapshot to show what changed since the last pass, and a filter surfaces the monitors nobody has looked at in months. Default the table to sorting by longest time since review so the neglected ones float to the top.

Every fix happens from the row without opening Better Stack. Let me change the check frequency or unpause a monitor with Update Monitor. Let me move a monitor into a different group with Update Monitor, and create a new group inline with Create Monitor Group when the right one does not exist yet. Let me delete a dead monitor with Delete Monitor, always behind a confirm dialog that names the monitor and says the deletion cannot be undone. And let me file a reliability ticket in Linear with Create Issue, prefilled with that monitor's name, URL, incident count, median duration, availability, response times, and the flags it tripped, so the ticket carries the evidence. Let me pick the Linear team and edit the title and description before it is created, then show the created issue on the row so we do not file it twice.

Availability and response times are per monitor calls, so fetch them with bounded concurrency after the monitor list renders, fill those cells in as they arrive instead of blocking the whole table, and cache them for the session behind a manual refresh button. Fetch incidents once for the whole 30 day window and group them by monitor in the handler rather than making one request per row. A team with two hundred monitors should still get a usable table quickly.

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