Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

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.

It’s no secret that many businesses rely heavily on Amazon Web Services (AWS) for their infrastructure and application needs. While AWS offers scalability, flexibility, and reliability, managing and monitoring cloud resources can be challenging. That’s where AWS monitoring and observability can be a tremendous asset. Today, we will explore how implementing these practices is crucial for ensuring that your cloud environment operates smoothly, efficiently, and securely.

Kubernetes operators and Helm charts are both tools used for deploying and managing applications within Kubernetes clusters, but they have different strengths, and it can be difficult to determine which one to use for your application. Helm simplifies the deployment and management of Kubernetes resources using templates and version-controlled packages. It excels in scenarios where repeatable deployments and easy upgrades or rollbacks are needed.

Managing your AWS costs is both crucial and complex, and as your AWS environment grows, it becomes harder to know where you can optimize and how to execute the necessary changes. Datadog Cloud Cost Management provides invaluable visibility into your cloud spend that enables you to explore costs and investigate trends that impact your cloud bill.