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Why We Made Our Monitoring Stats Public

Why We Made Our Monitoring Stats Public

Most monitoring services hide their numbers. We decided to do the opposite.

At boop.one/live, you can see exactly how Boop is performing right now - checks per minute, regional latency, success rates, everything. No login required.

What You Can See

The live dashboard shows real-time stats from our monitoring infrastructure:

Global Numbers

  • Checks per minute (currently ~150)
  • Total checks in the last 24 hours (330,000+)
  • Active monitors across the platform
  • Incidents detected in the last 24 hours

Regional Performance
We run checks from 4 regions, and you can see each one:

  • US-East (Virginia)
  • US-West (Los Angeles)
  • EU-Central (Frankfurt)
  • Asia-Pacific (Singapore)

For each region, we show:

  • Number of checks performed
  • Average response time
  • Success rate percentage

Additional Metrics

  • SSL certificates being monitored
  • Average days until certificate expiration
  • DNS success rates
  • Platform uptime percentage

Why Make This Public?

1. We Should Practice What We Preach

We are a monitoring company. If we are going to tell you that uptime matters, we should be willing to show ours.

Hiding our stats while asking you to trust us with yours felt hypocritical.

2. It Demonstrates Scale

Anyone can claim they handle "millions of checks." Showing real numbers proves it.

When you see 330,000+ checks in the last 24 hours updating in real-time, you know it is not marketing fluff.

3. It Builds Trust

Before you sign up for a monitoring service, you probably want to know:

  • Is it actually reliable?
  • Does it work globally?
  • Can it handle scale?

Our live page answers all of these without you having to trust our marketing copy.

4. It Keeps Us Honest

When your stats are public, you cannot hide problems. If our success rate drops, everyone sees it.

This creates internal pressure to maintain quality. We are not just accountable to paying customers - we are accountable to anyone who visits the page.

The Technical Side

The live stats page pulls from a public API endpoint that aggregates data from our monitoring infrastructure:

  • Check counts come from our job queue metrics
  • Response times are averaged from recent check results
  • Success rates are calculated from the last hour of data
  • Regional breakdowns use our multi-region worker data

The page refreshes every 15 seconds, so you are seeing near-real-time data.

What We Learned

Publishing our stats publicly changed how we think about reliability. When a metric looks bad on the dashboard, we feel it immediately.

It also became an unexpected marketing tool. Developers appreciate transparency, and the live page has driven signups from people who just wanted to see what we were about.

See It Yourself

Check out the live dashboard: boop.one/live

Watch the numbers update in real-time. See which regions are fastest. Notice how many checks we are running right now.

And if you want that kind of visibility for your own infrastructure, Boop includes public status pages so you can give your users the same transparency.


What metrics would you want to see from a monitoring service? Drop a comment below.

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