Let’s face it, we’re all a bit “lazy.” I admit it, I don’t check my website data every day. And when I’m on vacation it can be a bigger challenge.
But that’s OK, I use data alerts to stay on top of my data even if I can’t check analytics every day. Are you using alerts?
If you’ve never used Google Analytics alerts they’re fairly simple to set up. You can find them in the Profile Settings.

We put almost all of our Drupal sites behind the excellent Varnish HTTP accelerator, and it gives us a massive performance boost for most site visitors. However it seems to have a tendency to crash without warning and occasionally just dies, leaving our sites down.

We workaround this issue by using another piece of useful kit, called Monit, that keeps an eye on processes on your server and restarts them if necessary.

Installing and configuring Monit is really simple (these instructions are for a Debian based server):

Avoid false positives with easy-to-configure alerting options.
Improve page load time by discovering when your servers are overloaded.
Save $1,000s worth of time - minutes to install and no complex config or ongoing management.