How to get started with your own uptime monitor with Docker, in minutes

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I received a stressed text message, “Tomorrow will be our biggest sales day EVER! I sure hope the web servers are ready for it!”

This may be an all too familiar message for many of you who work on the web or maintain server infrastructure. In this article I am going to show you how to quickly and easily spin up an uptime monitor, using Docker.