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If you've ever joined an incident call only to discover the monitor for the affected service was either misconfigured, deleted, or never set up in the first place—you already understand why monitoring as code (MaC) exists.

Is it necessary to monitor a website that redirects to a different URL? Imagine a user visits a URL and is automatically redirected to a new main URL without taking any action. This process is called URL redirection. It typically occurs when a web server sends a 3xx HTTP status code and a location header with the new URL. Sometimes there is only one redirect, but in other cases, the request passes through several URLs before reaching the final page.

Your dashboards may be telling a different story than what the customers are experiencing There's a version of a website problem that nobody talks about enough—the one where everything is technically fine. The site is up. The server is responding. No alerts have fired. And yet, somewhere out there, a user is watching a spinner rotate for the fifth second in a row, quietly losing faith in your product. This is what makes response time latency the most deceptive problem in web operations.

Every engineer has a story about the outage that came out of nowhere. One moment everything is green. The next, your monitoring dashboard lights up red, your inbox fills faster than you can read it, and somewhere a customer is staring at a blank screen wondering if your business still exists.