Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Making transparency a principle of your company's culture

You’ve probably heard the phrase “transparency is key” more than you can bear at this point—so let’s get this out of the way. Transparency is key. The phrase suddenly became that much more unbearable. But before you drop off, let me also communicate something else: transparency is often not enough. Often, companies make the mistake of leaning on transparency as a catchall solution to many of their internal comms issues.

Webinar Recap: Observability Data Orchestration

Today, businesses are generating more data than ever before. However, with this data explosion comes a new set of challenges, including increased complexity, higher costs, and difficulty extracting value. With this in mind, how can organizations effectively manage this data to extract value and solve the challenges of the modern data stack?

The Consolidation of Networking Tasks in Engineering

In recent years, the rapid development of cloud-based networking, network abstractions such as SD-WAN, and controller-based campus networking has meant that basic, day-to-day network operations have become easier for non-network engineers. The result we’re starting to see today is a sort of consolidation of networking tasks, leading to a need for only a small number of highly skilled network engineers to handle the less frequent heavy lifting of advanced design and troubleshooting.

Why Uptime Monitoring Is Essential for Your Business

Website downtime is a serious concern for businesses as it directly impacts the bottom line and can cause significant downstream effects as users turn to alternatives. You and your team can spend hundreds of hours to improve your websites, add new features, and create great content. If your website comes down at a critical moment, these efforts are wasted and users are left wondering about your business’ ability to function in the digital world.

You can now add tags to your sites

Some of our users have a lot of sites in their Oh Dear account. A feature often requested is the ability to add a little bit of meta information about each site. To do that, we've introduced the ability to add tags to a site. Tags can be used for instance how important it is to fix a problem with the site immediately. Possible tags could be important or has support contract. Another use case would be to add the technology used, tags could be named wordpress, laravel, js.

Learn about Operator Connect vs Direct Routing

As hybrid and remote work continues to become the norm for businesses of all sizes, organizations are increasingly gravitating to cloud-based unified communication tools to boost internal collaboration and stay connected to customers. Microsoft Teams is already one of the most popular choices for chat and meetings and it is becoming a popular tool to use as a cloud-based business phone system.

10 Best Apache Log Analyzers: Free & Paid Tools [2023 Comparison]

Apache is the second most popular web server, after …., with its roots and official release going back as far as 1995. Throughout the years, it gained features, including HTTP/2, caching, and many more, while retaining its most appreciated capabilities: speed, modularity, and great stability. To fully leverage its features, you need to understand the environment, bottlenecks, traffic and user behavior. Just like with every software inside your infrastructure, Apache is no different.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Explained

Although endpoint detection and response has been around since 2013, EDR is still IT security’s most popular buzzword today. The reason why organizations around the globe choose to use endpoint detection and response as one of their top security solutions is simple: it works. Fighting against malicious endpoint threats and cyberattacks is by no means an easy task.

Top Reasons Why Testing Is Crucial In Every Field

Testing is a critical component in any field and can play an important role in understanding the complexities of the products, services, or processes being examined. Testing provides robust feedback that helps to ensure accuracy and quality assurance, which are essential for businesses seeking success. Testing also allows teams to identify areas of improvement and develop strategies to rectify errors. This article will explore the top reasons why testing is such a crucial element in all fields.

Tech Tips To Go The Extra Mile With Cyber Security

With more and more cybercrime incidents affecting businesses, the focus on cyber security is greater than ever. Not surprisingly, small businesses and large enterprises consider it an essential investment. After all, it does more than protect your organization from hacking attacks and data breaches in the long run. It safeguards your credibility, customer trust, and reputation. You can also prevent liabilities for data breaches and non-compliance by keeping security at the forefront.