The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Network monitoring is a vital part of your security architecture and layered security portfolio. Step one in your network monitoring safety checklist is making sure you have network monitoring in the first place. The rest of our steps assume you have network monitoring and lay out five ways to optimize its value.
See how Nexthink’s IT department extended hardware refresh cycles while increasing employee happiness by offering device choices and incorporating sentiment and environment stewardship into the process. Like many organizations, our IT team has fallen behind on hardware refresh cycles due to the global chip shortage and ongoing supply chain issues.
We’re introducing AppScope 1.0 with a series of stories that demonstrate how AppScope changes the game for SREs and developers, as well as Infosec, DevSecOps, and ITOps practitioners. This blog is the second of two Infosec stories. For both Part 1 and Part 2, Randy Rinehart, Principal Product Security Engineer at Cribl, contributed extensively.
Let's start with the bottom line: When we upgraded to Elasticsearch 7.15 last year, our internal observability clusters saw a reduction in inter-node traffic from 464TB to 204.5TB per day. We monitored this reduction through subsequent upgrades and noticed its impact on our data transfer and storage costs. So here it is: upgrading saved Elastic $3,500 per day, or approximately $100,000 a month, or $1.2 million annually.
00:26 Web Checks
00:31 HTTP(S) Check
01:13 Transaction Check
01:45 API Check
02:38 RUM Check
03:12 Malware and Virus Checks
03:37 SSL Check
04:00 Network Checks
04:04 WHOIS/Domain Expiry Check
04:19 DNS Check
04:43 Ping (ICMP) Check
04:59 NTP Check
05:22 SSH Check
05:34 TCP/UDP Port Checks
05:54 Email Checks
05:59 IMAP, POP, SMTP and Domain Blacklist Checks
06:37 Custom Checks
We've launched a feature that will help you fix errors and performance issues as a team! 🎉 With Logbook you get the full incident history. Read and leave team comments, see which notifications were sent at what time, and see team activity for changes in incident states. It's now easier than ever to see what the current state of an incident is.
The vast majority of corporate IT departments have a network monitoring solution. Typically that solution is built on standalone software platforms. If that’s you, this post is for you. You’re probably hearing a lot about “observability” these days. Generally, that’s the ability to answer any question and explore unknown or unexpected problems to deliver great digital experiences to your users.
