Gatsby generates blazing-fast static sites - but static does not mean failure-proof. CDN outages, broken builds, expired SSL certs, and API backend failures can all take your Gatsby site offline. Here is how to monitor it properly with Vigilmon .

What Can Go Wrong with a Gatsby Site

Gatsby sites typically have three layers that can fail independently:

The static build served by Netlify, Vercel, Gatsby Cloud, or a CDN

API routes or serverless functions if using Gatsby Functions

Data sources - headless CMS, REST APIs, or GraphQL endpoints that power your content

Your site might return HTTP 200 while a broken CDN serves a stale build. Your content API might fail while the shell loads.…