The state of uptime monitoring in 2026: what 1,000 engineering teams told us.
We surveyed 1,000 engineering teams about how they monitor uptime, what tools they use, and what's still broken. The results were eye-opening.
Gerry Porter
Founder & CEO
What engineering teams actually do for uptime monitoring
We surveyed 1,000 engineering teams — from two-person startups to enterprise organizations with hundreds of engineers — about how they approach uptime monitoring. We asked about tooling, processes, alert fatigue, and what they wish they had.
Here's what we found.
Most teams are monitoring fewer endpoints than they think they need to
68% of respondents said they believed they were monitoring fewer endpoints than they should be. The most commonly skipped categories were authentication endpoints, third-party dependency checks, and internal admin tooling.
The reasons varied: some teams hadn't gotten around to it, others didn't know they could monitor those endpoint types, and a significant minority said alert fatigue from their existing monitors had made them hesitant to add more.
Alert fatigue is the number one pain point
74% of respondents said alert fatigue was their biggest challenge with their current monitoring setup. Teams reported receiving an average of 34 monitoring alerts per week, of which roughly 40% were false positives or low-priority noise.
One respondent summarized it well: "We've trained ourselves to ignore the pager because it cries wolf so often. That's terrifying."
Single-region monitoring is still the norm
Only 31% of teams surveyed used monitoring tools that checked from more than one geographic region. Of those, the median number of regions was three — far below the 18-region coverage that Sola provides by default.
Teams that used multi-region monitoring reported 52% fewer incidents that turned out to be false positives, and detected regional outages an average of 11 minutes faster than teams using single-region tools.
What teams want from their next monitoring tool
When asked what they wished their monitoring tool did better, the top five answers were:
Better alert routing and escalation (61%)
Multi-region monitoring (54%)
Faster incident detection (49%)
Better status page integration (43%)
Cheaper pricing for the feature set (38%)
These findings directly shaped Sola's product roadmap for the next 12 months.
