I built an uptime monitor that asks: “Is it actually down?”

I've been working on Pulsecima Pulse, and the idea started with a problem I kept thinking about with uptime monitoring.

If a monitoring service gets one failed request, should that immediately mean your application is down?Not necessarily.The monitoring location itself could be having a network issue. There could be a routing or DNS problem affecting that region while the application is still working normally elsewhere. So I built Pulsecima Pulse to check from multiple regions and use their results together before deciding that an outage is real. I'malso working on another part that I found surprisingly important: monitoring background jobs. A SaaS can have a perfectly healthy homepage while a scheduled task, worker, webhook, or data sync has stopped running in the background.

Thatmade me rethink what “uptime” actually means for a small application. I'msharing it here because I'd genuinely like feedback from other people building side projects. If your monitoring tool told you your project was down, what would you want it to show you before you started investigating? Would you care more about knowing about the problem as quickly as possible, or knowing that the alert is highly likely to be a real outage?