Ionhour Docs

Technical

Implementation details, best practices, and troubleshooting for IonHour.

Deep dives into how IonHour works under the hood and how to get the most out of it.

  • Check Lifecycle — The complete state machine behind check status transitions, validation timing, and multi-region consensus.
  • Monitoring Patterns — Best practices for schedule sizing, grace period tuning, and avoiding false positives.
  • Integration Examples — Ready-to-use code snippets for Node.js, Python, Go, shell scripts, CI/CD, and containers.
  • Troubleshooting — Diagnosing common issues with missed pings, false alerts, and unexpected check behavior.