I see you got some down votes but I see your question more as a helpful inquiry. Idea is that you don't have to monitor anything actively. You still have your

I see you got some down votes but I see your question more as a helpful inquiry. Idea is that you don't have to monitor anything actively. You still have your phone and email in case something goes wrong. But you are not franticly checking dashboards if response time is slower for 0.05 second in actual moment. What parent is saying if you have normal operations most of the time everything will be OK. Despite all of the "spooky stories" software and servers are mostly reliable and you probably don't need that much redundancy that people who sell magic solutions would like you to believe. If you look at statistics even for google, most of the downtime is when someone is changing something on the servers. When you are a single founder and you are having a diner and not changing config of your servers or deploying new software 95% of reasons for server going down are off the table.