You and your team have a lot of things begging for your attention. You’ve got multiple systems in place, and if anything goes wrong, the last thing you need is a storm of notifications coming at you from everywhere. To help you centralize your messaging and incident management, Uptrends continues to add integrations with tools that your team may already use. So, if you use Opsgenie, this new integration is for you.

We talk a lot about how website availability affects your business in revenue and brand perception. We throw out statistics, and we give dire warnings, but until you’ve taken the time to do the research, you don’t really know how the numbers affect your business. In this article, we step through the issues associated with downtime, and we show you how to quantify the impact of website downtime on your business’s revenue.

We did it again. We just published a new free tool, the HTTP Response Header Check. This handy little gadget quickly grabs your HTTP response headers for your review. It sounds simple because it is. But as every good DevOps pro knows, it is always a good idea to check your headers from time to time.

You hear about APIs (application program interfaces) everywhere now, and even if you don’t know what one is, you’ve probably heard the term more than once. In this article, we cover a few API basics, and we talk a bit about why you should use API monitoring if you publish or have an API that is critical to your business.