# Monitoring

## Status Page

[makenot.work/health](https://makenot.work/health) is a live status dashboard showing:

- Overall status (Operational / Degraded / Issues Detected)
- 24-hour and 7-day uptime percentages
- Per-service status: database, sessions, S3 storage, Stripe payments, email, SyncKit
- External monitoring data from PoM (response times, route availability, incidents)
- Recent check history and incident log
- Live endpoint tests (public URLs and database queries)

The page is public. A JSON API is also available at `/api/health` for programmatic monitoring.

## PoM (Production Operations Monitor)

PoM is a self-hosted monitoring tool we built. It checks two targets continuously:

- **makenot.work**: the main platform
- **forums.makenot.work**: community forums (Multithreaded)

For each target, PoM monitors:

- **Health checks**: HTTP response codes and response times
- **TLS certificates**: expiry tracking and chain validation
- **Route availability**: key pages return expected status codes
- **DNS records**: A, AAAA, MX, TXT, CNAME correctness
- **WHOIS**: domain registration and expiry

PoM sends email alerts when any check fails or degrades and tracks per-test history to detect regressions.

## No Third-Party Monitoring

PoM runs on our own servers, keeps its own database, and sends alerts through our own email infrastructure. No monitoring data leaves our systems.

## See Also

- [Infrastructure](./infrastructure.md): production stack and vendor choices
- [Security](./security.md): how we protect data