Probes · Business
Multi-region probes
Regional outages are the rule, not the exception — and single-region monitoring tells you about the problem you're inside while customers somewhere else are fine.
Why you need it
AWS us-east-1 falls over. GCP eu-west-3 sulks for an hour. A single-region probe either misses it (you're not there) or screams about it (you are). Either way, you don't see what your customers see. Multi-region fixes that — one probe, four continents, one honest answer.
- Four continents, one toggle. EU, US, APAC, and South America run the same check in parallel — flip the switch on a probe and the extra regions start writing results immediately.
- Per-region latency timeline. Click the globe icon and the chart switches from "average across regions" to "one line per region" — a slow Sydney without a slow Amsterdam stops being averaged into invisibility.
- Quorum decides the public pill. A single noisy region doesn't flip your status page to red. Majority vote keeps the public story honest while internal alerts still fire per-region so you hear about the blip first.
- The audit-friendly answer. When enterprise buyers ask "where do you check from?", the answer is a named list of four regions in the PDF report — not a hand-wave.
- Default for new probes, opt-in for old ones. Set multi-region as the workspace default and every new probe ships fanned-out; flip existing probes individually without losing history.
Where it pays off
Multi-region pays off the moment "is it up?" depends on where you're standing:
- Global SaaS with regional flakiness. Frankfurt is fine; Singapore is suspicious. Single-region says green; multi-region tells you APAC has been Degraded for 40 minutes.
- Geo-DNS and edge-routed services. Cloudflare, Fastly, multi-region cloud deployments — different regions literally hit different origins. One probe per region is the only honest check.
- Customer-facing SLA reports. The per-region timeline in the PDF lands better with enterprise buyers than a single number averaged across everything.
- Compliance and procurement asks. "We monitor from four continents" beats "we monitor" in every security questionnaire.
Not the right tool when: your service is single-region by design (a regional SaaS, an internal tool, an EU-only regulated deployment) — four regions of identical results just clutter the charts.
Available on Business.
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