Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

At its core, ITSM aims to align IT services with business objectives and coordinate all the moving parts required to keep operations running smoothly. But as IT infrastructure continues to explode in complexity, ITSM has become more complex in recent years, as it’s now indispensable for enterprises of all types and sizes. Why? ITSM brings order and efficiency to IT ecosystems spanning numerous departments, teams, applications, servers, networks, and devices.

In healthcare, every second matters. Healthcare IT infrastructure is the backbone of modern patient care delivery, ensuring that patient data is accessible, treatments are administered on time, and critical, life-saving systems remain operational. When these systems fail, the consequences are immediate and far-reaching—delayed treatments, disrupted workflows, and compromised patient safety.

DX App Synthetic Monitor (DX ASM) performs synthetic checks from an external perspective to replicate real-user experience. Using the DX ASM global network of more than 90 monitoring stations, customers can test a website or application on a 24/7 basis, with no disruption to production systems. The solution also provides the option to create on-premises monitoring stations (OPMS) within a data center to monitor web applications and APIs inside the firewall.

Monitoring Apache logs is crucial to ensure the health, security, and performance of web servers running the Apache HTTP Server software. Analyzing these logs continuously will, in turn, provide invaluable insight into web server activities related to web traffic patterns, user behavior, server errors, potential security threats, and performance metrics.

Tail latency significantly impacts large-scale systems. This blog covers its importance, contributing factors, and effective reduction strategies.

As AI capabilities become more powerful and expansive across IT operations and use cases, the marketplace has become crowded with contenders looking to provide solutions. But when smart enterprise buyers size up their options, ScienceLogic invariably stands out with key business differentiators that showcase why we win and stand apart from the competition.

We're excited to introduce Check-ins, our no-fuss solution to monitoring your scheduled jobs and continuous processes. AppSignal Check-ins allow you to seamlessly monitor the scheduling, run times, and health of your scheduled jobs and processes, with a simple setup using helpers or API endpoints. In this post, we'll introduce you to the new Check-ins feature and show you how to start monitoring your app's background processes with AppSignal.