Measured across 847 production incidents reported by beta participants. The gap between first observable signal and first alert firing.
At $18,240/hr average downtime cost for mid-market SaaS (Gartner, 2025), the 47-minute detection gap isn't a monitoring inconvenience — it's a $14,288 line item per incident.
The problem isn't that your alerts don't fire. It's that they fire after the Postgres replica has been limping for 38 minutes, after DNS has been degraded for two hours, after the cert was already in its final two weeks.
Reactive alerting is threshold alerting. Degrade watches the gradient — the slow climb from 12ms to 340ms over six hours — and surfaces the inflection point before the threshold breaks.
“Degrade caught our Postgres replica lag 38 minutes before PagerDuty fired. We fixed it before a single user noticed.”
Connect your first data source in 90 seconds. Degrade watches your infrastructure so you don't have to watch it fail.