Gatsby sites are static — but they still go down. CDN outages, Netlify incidents, broken API routes. This guide shows how to monitor your Gatsby site with Vigilmon.

Why Gatsby Sites Need Monitoring

Static sites have failure points:

CDN/hosting outages (Netlify, Vercel, Cloudflare Pages)

API routes that break (Gatsby Functions)

Third-party API dependencies that go down

Vigilmon checks from multiple regions every 60 seconds. If it's down anywhere, you know immediately.

Step 1: Set Up Basic Uptime Monitoring

Go to vigilmon.online and create a monitor:

URL : your Gatsby site URL (e.g., https://yoursite.com )

Check interval : 1 minute

Multi-region : enabled

That's the baseline. Your site is monitored.

Step 2: Monitor Gatsby API Routes (Gatsby Functions)

Add a health endpoint:

// src/api/health.js export default function handler ( req , res ) { res . json ({ status : ' ok ' , timestamp : Date . now (), site : process . env .…