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By Sri Varalakshmi
Long before dashboards and decibel-loud alerts, there were watchtowers. Every kingdom worth its salt had them, men perched on hills, lighting fires to signal the moment they spotted something suspicious on the horizon. It was, in its time, a fine system. The trouble was that watchmen, being human, occasionally mistook a herd of cattle for an invading army, or a dust storm for smoke, and lit their fires anyway.
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By Sangavi Dass
Your payment API suddenly returns 503 errors. Within seconds, your infrastructure monitors, application checks, and dependency monitors begin generating their own alerts. And while the dashboards keep flashing, the clock is still running. Your customers are waiting, internal teams are asking for updates, and engineers are trying to separate the real problem from the noise before the situation gets worse.
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By Bela Susan Thomas
Without Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) monitoring, your digital experience monitoring (DEM) stack can't detect the route hijacks, leaks, or instability that prevent users from reaching your applications. Most DEM stacks miss this entirely, and that gap is where some of the most damaging, hardest-to-diagnose outages happen.
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By Sangavi Dass
One night, Daniel Rizzy was the only person awake on Zylker’s IT team, and the clock was already running. He was also the only thing standing between a P1 outage and 10,000 customers. Rizzy works nights for ZylkerXchange, Zylker’s foreign currency exchange app. He lives on the city’s outskirts, where the air is clean and quiet, and the night shift suited that life. Most nights, nothing happened. Some nights, everything did.
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By Sangavi Dass
There was a version of daily life, not long ago, that ran entirely on physical effort. Booking a trip meant a visit to a travel agent. Ordering lunch meant walking to a restaurant or calling and hoping someone picked up. Buying something for the home meant a trip to the store and a checkout queue. Paying a bill meant visiting a bank branch and engaging with a teller. None of it was instant, and nobody expected it to be.
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By Bela Susan Thomas
If you've ever joined an incident call only to discover the monitor for the affected service was either misconfigured, deleted, or never set up in the first place—you already understand why monitoring as code (MaC) exists.
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By Bela Susan Thomas
Is it necessary to monitor a website that redirects to a different URL? Imagine a user visits a URL and is automatically redirected to a new main URL without taking any action. This process is called URL redirection. It typically occurs when a web server sends a 3xx HTTP status code and a location header with the new URL. Sometimes there is only one redirect, but in other cases, the request passes through several URLs before reaching the final page.
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By Bela Susan Thomas
Your dashboards may be telling a different story than what the customers are experiencing There's a version of a website problem that nobody talks about enough—the one where everything is technically fine. The site is up. The server is responding. No alerts have fired. And yet, somewhere out there, a user is watching a spinner rotate for the fifth second in a row, quietly losing faith in your product. This is what makes response time latency the most deceptive problem in web operations.
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By Bela Susan Thomas
Every engineer has a story about the outage that came out of nowhere. One moment everything is green. The next, your monitoring dashboard lights up red, your inbox fills faster than you can read it, and somewhere a customer is staring at a blank screen wondering if your business still exists.
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By Subramaniam G
Observability has evolved dramatically in the past decade. The industry has moved from basic uptime checks to full-stack observability (FSO), including metrics, logs, traces, and real user monitoring. Observability tools like ManageEngine FSO can detect anomalies in little time. And yet, outages still last longer than they should. Observability has matured. Response hasn’t. Most IT teams today have the tools to know when something breaks. But knowing is not the same as resolving.
Learn how to set up and monitor Business Transactions using Site24x7's APM Insight in this step-by-step tutorial. We walk through configuring APM Business Transaction Rules, defining transaction criteria (like HTTP method and URL patterns), and analyzing key performance metrics such as response time, throughput, Apdex score, request count, and exception rate. Whether you're troubleshooting slow application performance or setting up proactive monitoring for your business-critical transactions, this video shows you exactly how to get actionable insights from your APM dashboard.
This session covers everything you need to know about infrastructure monitoring, starting from agent-based server monitoring to database monitoring, container monitoring (Docker & Kubernetes), multi-cloud monitoring (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI), IT automation, custom plugins, and ManageEngine CloudSpend for cloud cost management. If you're looking to master full-stack infrastructure observability, this hands-on walkthrough shows you exactly how to set up and use each Site24x7 module inside the live console.
Running Kubernetes on Red Hat OpenShift adds powerful enterprise capabilities—but also introduces operator-driven workloads, stricter RBAC and SCC policies, and platform-specific complexity. In this video, learn how Site24x7 enables platform-aware monitoring for OpenShift environments, helping DevOps and platform teams gain complete visibility without blind spots.
Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot Business Transactions using Site24x7's APM Insight in this step-by-step walkthrough. In this video, you'll see how to: Set up Business Transaction grouping rules based on URL patterns Track key performance metrics — response time, throughput, Apdex score, and error rate Drill down into individual transaction traces to pinpoint slow requests Use trend graphs to spot performance regressions over time Identify the exact business-critical workflows impacting your application's user experience.
A green uptime check only proves the server responded, not that customers can actually log in, search, and pay. Synthetic transaction monitoring runs your critical user journeys 24/7 from real locations and alerts your team the moment a flow breaks. Catch it before your customers do.
Running Kubernetes on Red Hat OpenShift adds powerful enterprise capabilities—but also introduces operator-driven workloads, stricter RBAC and SCC policies, and platform-specific complexity. In this video, learn how Site24x7 enables platform-aware monitoring for OpenShift environments, helping DevOps and platform teams gain complete visibility without blind spots.
Learn how to use the Cost Allocation report in ManageEngine CloudSpend to accurately split, track, and attribute your multi-cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to create a cost allocation, choose accounts, apply labels, configure allocation levels, and read the hierarchical allocation report by cloud, account, and region. Cost allocation is the foundation of FinOps. It tells you exactly which teams, projects, and cost centers are driving your cloud bill so you can charge back, budget, and optimize with confidence.
In this video, you'll learn how to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) with Site24x7 using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), Zoho Key Services (ZKS), and Microsoft Azure OpenAI. Discover how Zia helps you analyze outages, understand performance issues, identify root causes, and get monitoring insights using simple natural-language queries. What you'll learn.
Welcome to Day 1 of the Site24x7 Training Program! This is the first session in our 5-part training series covering every module of Site24x7. In this session, we introduce the platform and take a deep dive into: Website Monitoring Real User Monitoring (RUM) Digital Risk Analyser (DRA) Session 1 – Introduction & Website Monitoring, Real User Monitoring, Digital Risk Analyser.
Learn how DNS (Domain Name System) works and why it's called the internet's phone book. This video breaks down the entire DNS resolution process, from cache checks to root servers, and covers every essential DNS record type, including A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, NS, SOA, TXT, PTR, SRV, and CAA records.
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By Site24x7
The number of companies using internet as their business platform has increased at an exponential rate in the past decade.
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By Site24x7
In today's connected society, the demands placed on data center professionals is at an all-time high due to the need for modern devices to always have connectivity.
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By Site24x7
Site24x7 combines web performance monitoring from a user perspective, key performance indicators across infrastructure, and deep app code visibility, making life for IT Operations teams easier!
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By Site24x7
The whitepaper discusses the need to measure end-user experience from a global perspective and how Site24x7 can help organizations achieve optimal level of quality end-user experience.
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By Site24x7
Understand how your DevOps team can benefit by using an application performance monitoring tool.
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Site24x7 offers unified cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations with monitoring capabilities extending to analyzing the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices.
All-in-One Monitoring Solution:
- Monitor Website Performance: Monitor the performance of internet services like HTTPS, DNS Server, FTP Server, SSL/TLS Certificate, SMTP Server, POP Server, URLs, REST APIs, SOAP Web Service, and more from 90+ global locations (or via wireless carriers) and those within a private network.
- Server Monitoring: Stay on top of outages and pinpoint server issues with root cause analysis capabilities. Create custom plugins and monitor critical attributes. Monitor Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, VMware and Docker.
- Synthetic Web Transaction Monitoring: Record and simulate multi-step user interactions in a real browser and optimize login forms, shopping carts and other applications.
- Application Performance Monitoring for DevOps: Identify application servers and app components that are generating errors. Monitoring for Java, .NET, Ruby, PHP, AWS, Azure and mobile platforms.
- Network Monitoring: Comprehensive monitoring for critical network devices such as routers, switches and firewalls. Assist network teams get deep performance visibility required to manage complex networks.
- Public and Private Cloud Monitoring: Get complete visibility across your cloud resources. Monitor workloads and troubleshoot app performance on cloud and virtualization platforms like Amazon Web Services, Azure and VMware.
Monitoring Availability and End User Experience Made Simple.