MAINTENANCE & SUPPORT

WeWatchYourSystemsSoYourTeamCanSleep.

Agree monitored assets, support hours and timezone, incident priorities and escalation owners. Separate acknowledgment from resolution targets, and define restore tests, exclusions and overage terms.

Agreed Coverage
Priority-Based Response
Named Responsibilities

Synthetic Status Demo

Sample systems — not live telemetry
Web Application
Synthetic sample status
99.99%
API Services
Operational
99.99%
Database Cluster
Operational
99.99%
CDN & Edge
Operational
99.99%
Illustrative status — no incident-history claim

Illustrative Availability Targets per Year

Approximate arithmetic over a 365-day year, not an offered SLA or achieved uptime. Agree measurement windows, exclusions and recovery obligations in writing.

99%
Example Target
87.6 hours downtime
99.9%
Example Target
8.76 hours downtime
99.99%
Example Target
52.6 minutes
99.999%
Example Target
5.3 minutes

Choose Your Coverage Level

Illustrative coverage options, subject to a written quote. Agree hours/timezone, severity-based response, included work, overages, exclusions and cancellation/handover terms.

Starter

  • Coverage: Agree hours and timezone
  • Response: Agree severity targets
  • Monitoring: Select named assets
  • Patches: Agree change windows
  • Reports: Agree cadence and owner
  • Channel: Agree ticket routing
Best For:
Small business websites, blogs
Select Starter
EXAMPLE OPTION

Professional

  • Coverage: Agree monitoring and staffing
  • Response: Separate from resolution
  • Monitoring: Scope signals and thresholds
  • Patches: Agree emergency approvals
  • Reports: Review incidents and risks
  • Channel: Agree escalation contacts
Best For:
Growing SaaS, e-commerce, apps
Select Professional
CUSTOM SCOPE

Enterprise

  • Coverage: Contracted rota and timezone
  • Response: Severity and dependency terms
  • Monitoring: Scope data and retention
  • Patches: Triage and test before release
  • Reports: Agree restore-test evidence
  • Channel: Name incident and service owners
Best For:
FinTech, HealthTech, mission-critical
Select Enterprise

Signals to Include in the Support Scope

Uptime: Agree locations, interval and alert routing
Response time: Baseline and agree thresholds
Certificate expiry: Agree notice and renewal owner
Security patches: Triage, test and approve changes
Database query performance (slow query detection)
Memory & CPU anomalies (spike detection)
CDN cache hit rates (below threshold alerts)
Backup integrity: Schedule and record restore tests
Dependencies: Agree scanning and remediation cadence
Infrastructure cost anomalies (budget spike alerts)

Illustrative Incident Response Sequence

Synthetic times, tools and outcomes only; not measured response or resolution promises. Agree severity, coverage hours, escalation, approvals and review responsibilities.

00:00
Alert fires
Automated detection via Datadog
00:01
On-call SRE paged
Via PagerDuty escalated channels
00:03
Initial diagnosis begun
On live production system
00:15
Root cause identified
And documented in incident log
00:30
Fix deployed
Or approved rollback rehearsed
00:45
System healthy
Verified via synthetic tests
01:00
Post-mortem started
Detailed timeline gathering
24:00
RCA scope and owner agreed
Review delivery time is separately agreed

The Tools in Our SRE Arsenal

Candidate monitoring and alerting tools, subject to asset coverage, licenses and operator access. Signals need tested thresholds, an escalation owner and a response agreement.

Uptime Monitoring

  • Datadog
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • UptimeRobot
  • StatusPage.io

APM & Tracing

  • New Relic
  • Datadog APM
  • Jaeger
  • OpenTelemetry

Log Management

  • ELK Stack
  • Loki
  • Splunk

Error Tracking

  • Sentry
  • Bugsnag
  • Rollbar

Security

  • Snyk
  • Dependabot
  • AWS GuardDuty
  • Cloudflare

Alerting

  • PagerDuty
  • Opsgenie
  • Slack webhooks
  • OpsGenie
Hours
Coverage and timezone
Triage
Response vs resolution
Restore
Scheduled recovery tests
Scope
Included work and overages
Exit
Cancellation and handover

"Illustrative support perspective, not verified client feedback: I would want clear escalation, tested restore procedures and documented incident ownership."

EW
Sample Service Owner
Illustrative support-team perspective
SRE team monitoring dashboards at night, green system health indicators

Frequently Asked Questions

State hours, timezone, holidays and any staffed on-call rota in the service agreement. Define severity, acknowledgment targets, escalation contacts and dependencies; monitoring availability is different from human coverage.

Agree Support Coverage and Ownership.

Define incident coverage, change approvals, restore tests and handover before service begins.

Response targets, exclusions, overages and cancellation terms belong in the service agreement.

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