Monitoring Regions
Understanding StatusPageOne's monitoring regions and how to optimize your monitoring strategy
Monitoring Regions
StatusPageOne monitors your services from multiple geographic regions to provide accurate, globally-representative monitoring data and reduce false positives caused by regional network issues.
Available Regions
StatusPageOne currently monitors from two strategically positioned regions:
🇺🇸 US East (us-east-1)
Primary monitoring region located in North Virginia, USA.
Best for monitoring:
- • North American services and users
- • Services hosted on AWS us-east-1
- • Global CDNs with US edge locations
- • Services targeting English-speaking markets
🇧🇷 South America (sa-east-1)
Secondary monitoring region located in São Paulo, Brazil.
Best for monitoring:
- • South American services and users
- • Services hosted in Brazil or nearby regions
- • Portuguese/Spanish language markets
- • Cross-region validation and redundancy
How Multi-Region Monitoring Works
Single Region Monitoring
When you select one region for a monitor:
🎯 Focused Monitoring
Monitor checks are performed exclusively from the selected region.
Use Cases:
- • Region-specific services (local CDNs, country-specific endpoints)
- • Testing from a specific user perspective
- • Conserving monitor usage on free plans
- • Services with geographic restrictions
Multi-Region Monitoring
When you select multiple regions for a monitor:
🌐 Consensus-Based Monitoring
Monitor checks run from both regions, providing validation and reducing false positives.
Benefits:
- • Higher confidence in alert accuracy
- • Better understanding of global performance
- • Protection against regional internet issues
- • More comprehensive monitoring coverage
Region Selection Strategy
Choosing the Right Regions
Region Selection Guide
Consider Your User Base:
- • North America focused: Use US East primarily
- • South America focused: Include South America region
- • Global audience: Use both regions for comprehensive coverage
- • Regional services: Use the region closest to your service
Consider Your Infrastructure:
- • CDN services: Monitor from regions where you have edge locations
- • Multi-region deployments: Match monitoring regions to deployment regions
- • Single region hosting: Consider monitoring from both regions anyway
- • Geo-blocked services: Use only regions where service is accessible
Regional Performance Differences
Different regions may show varying performance characteristics:
Services may perform differently when accessed from different regions due to:
- • Geographic Distance: Physical distance affects latency
- • CDN Edge Locations: Closer edges provide faster responses
- • Network Routing: Different ISP routes affect performance
- • Server Location: Proximity to your hosting region matters
Multi-region monitoring provides:
- • Averaged Metrics: Combined response time data
- • Regional Insights: Performance breakdown by region
- • Reliability Validation: Cross-region incident confirmation
- • User Perspective: How different users experience your service
Alert Logic with Multiple Regions
How Multi-Region Alerts Work
🔄 Validation Process
Initial Failure Detection
One region detects a potential issue
Cross-Region Validation
Other regions perform immediate checks
Consensus Decision
Alert sent only if multiple regions confirm the issue
Recovery Verification
Recovery confirmed when all regions report success
Alert Scenarios
🚨 True Outage
Both regions detect the same issue simultaneously.
Result: Immediate alert sent after retry validation
⚠️ Regional Network Issue
One region has problems, but the service is actually working.
Result: No alert sent (false positive prevented)
Performance Metrics by Region
Data Collection
StatusPageOne collects performance data from each region independently:
📈 Metrics Tracked Per Region
Response Time Metrics:
- • Average response time
- • 95th percentile response time
- • Maximum response time
- • Minimum response time
Availability Metrics:
- • Uptime percentage
- • Success rate
- • Error rate by type
- • Regional downtime duration
Aggregated vs Regional View
Combined metrics from all selected regions, providing:
- • Overall service performance
- • Weighted average response times
- • Global uptime percentage
- • Comprehensive incident history
Individual metrics per region, showing:
- • Region-specific performance
- • Latency differences
- • Regional outage patterns
- • Comparative analysis
Regional Considerations
Network and Connectivity
🌐 Network Characteristics by Region
US East (us-east-1):
- • High-speed, low-latency connections to major US/Canadian services
- • Direct connectivity to major cloud providers (AWS, Google, Azure)
- • Optimal for services hosted on US East Coast
- • Representative of North American user experience
South America (sa-east-1):
- • Representative of South American internet infrastructure
- • Longer latencies to services hosted outside the region
- • Good connectivity within South America and to global CDNs
- • Provides validation from a different continental perspective
Service Accessibility
Some services may behave differently based on the monitoring region:
Regional Access Considerations
Geographic Restrictions:
- • Some services may block certain regions
- • GDPR compliance may affect European access patterns
- • Content delivery networks may show different performance
- • Rate limiting may vary by region
Best Practices:
- • Test your service accessibility from all selected regions
- • Consider whitelisting StatusPageOne monitoring IPs if needed
- • Monitor from regions where your users are located
- • Account for regional CDN edge performance differences
Future Region Expansion
🚀 Planned Regional Expansion
StatusPageOne is continuously expanding its monitoring network to provide better global coverage.
Regions Under Consideration:
- • Europe: EU West (Ireland) for European users
- • Asia Pacific: Singapore or Tokyo for Asian markets
- • US West: Oregon for West Coast coverage
- • Additional regions: Based on user demand and feedback
Want a specific region? Let us know - user feedback helps prioritize our expansion plans.
Best Practices
🎯 Regional Monitoring Best Practices
Region Selection
- • Choose regions that represent your actual user base
- • Use multiple regions for critical services to reduce false positives
- • Consider your infrastructure's geographic distribution
- • Test service accessibility from all selected regions
Performance Analysis
- • Compare regional performance to identify optimization opportunities
- • Use regional data to validate CDN and geographic optimizations
- • Monitor trends over time to detect regional degradation
- • Set appropriate expectations based on regional characteristics
Alert Configuration
- • Configure appropriate retry counts for each region
- • Account for higher latencies when monitoring from distant regions
- • Use multi-region monitoring for production services
- • Consider regional network patterns when setting alert thresholds
Monitoring Region Status
StatusPageOne maintains high availability of its monitoring infrastructure:
🛡️ Infrastructure Reliability
- • Redundant monitoring infrastructure in each region
- • Automatic failover for monitoring systems
- • Regular health checks of monitoring infrastructure
- • Real-time status monitoring of our own systems
📊 Transparency
- • Public status page for StatusPageOne infrastructure
- • Regional status indicators in the console
- • Notifications if monitoring region issues occur
- • Historical reliability data available
Next Steps
After understanding regional monitoring:
- Create Your First Monitor - Set up monitoring with optimal region selection
- Configure Alerting - Set up notifications for multi-region incidents
- Monitor Performance - Analyze regional performance differences
Need help choosing the right regions for your monitoring setup? Contact our team for personalized recommendations.
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