Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Feature Spotlight: Domain Blacklist Check

Domain Blacklist checks from Uptime.com will check your site once each day against approximately 100 of the most well-known spam blacklists to determine if your mail server appears on them. Your domain may be flagged as a spam website for sending too many emails, for sending spam emails, or due to repeated reports by email recipients that the site is spam.

Self Service Monitoring at Planet Scale: Waze Case Study (Cloud Next '18)

You’ve built a successful app that serves millions of users - great! Now how do you manage your 100’s of microservices that are running in multiple clouds, by various different teams across the org? In this session, we'll share the Waze team’s stories as they’ve transitioned to zero config, self service monitoring for their dev teams.

Release with Confidence: Testing, Debugging, and Monitoring in a Serverless World (Cloud Next '18)

Identifying the cause of a bug in a serverless system can sometimes be difficult. We'll show you how to tame your bugs with testing, and how to diagnose and mitigate problems in production.

Join the Discussion on Sentry's Streamlined SDKs

If you use Sentry, you’re probably familiar with our SDKs. While they aren’t the only reason for Sentry’s success, they do play a very important role, from the first time an error is thrown to the moment you fix the bug. SDKs are often like political figures (editor’s note: there are so many things we resisted saying here) — you don’t notice them if they do a good job. Jokes aside, there are very few expectations for an SDK.

Use Case: Using Maintenance Windows to Set Up Alert Schedules

For many of our users reacting to downtime data sent from a monitoring system such as StatusCake.com is a 24 hour job, and the process incorporates many staff who will have varying responsibilities, and sometimes work quite different hours. This is particularly true of companies who run “follow-the-sun” with their global dev-ops teams picking up the baton from the last as their time zone starts its working day.

Migrating to 2.0: the good, the bad & the ugly

The Sensu 2.0 release is dropping in October, and we’re already excited! As the version numbering implies, Sensu 2.0 includes significant changes from Sensu 1.x. Not only has the software been entirely re-engineered in Go — easing deployment significantly — the exposed APIs and internal data structures have changed to accommodate new features.