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How to Monitor Website Changes

Before, to know detect a website changed its content or not, you had to manually visit the website and check by yourself. This is a thing from the past! Tools such as Hyperping can send instant alerts in case of changes. One way is making sure your API or marketing site returns the expected content. Some servers return an expected status code (200, OK) but can often return the wrong content in the response body, whether it is HTML content or JSON.

How to monitor the proper functioning of a website

In times where it is possible to instantly access information, the website is the main point of communication with the market for every company. The website is often the place where the crucial first impression is built. It generates leads, sells, provides customer service, gets in touch with the media, recruits etc. It is the company’s website that the traffic from advertising campaigns gets directed to—and not only from the online ones.

AWS Step Functions 101

We are going to talk about an essential part of AWS Lambda called “AWS Step Functions.” What are Step Functions? Why are they important for AWS Lambda users? What are they used for, and what can we expect to get by using them? Bare with us, and discover more critical information on Step Functions throughout this article. We’ll begin with the explanation of what are Step Functions. AWS Step Functions service is the most recent service released by none other than Amazon Web Services.

Is AWS Lambda actually useful?

If you’re in developing business, you’ve probably heard about AWS Lambda by now. In case you haven’t, AWS Lambda has been among us for years, and it certainly brought a whole new level for running a code. The benefits of using AWS Lambda are vast, and many developers already use AWS Lambda daily. If you’re not among them, read through this article to learn more about what AWS Lambda can do for you and your code.

Monitoring Usage and Maintaining Effectiveness

In 2018, AWS pulled in $25.7 billion. Amazons serverless cloud-computing platform keeps growing every year, and with that growth comes the same types of problems every massive effort faces: the limits and deterioration of performance as time goes on. With the rise of serverless technology, developing application and new services has never been easier.

[OpsComm June] Driving Real Business Value with the OpsRamp Cost Savings Calculator

June 2019 saw the launch of The OpsRamp Cost Savings Calculator, a simple and powerful tool which helps IT experts quantify how much they can save with OpsRamp's service-centric AIOps platform. Our field marketing team had a blitz with two major events - HPE Discover and CloudExpo Santa Clara where we showcased our AIOps and hybrid IT monitoring capabilities. June also saw our resident experts making several contributions across different media outlets and events.

Automate workflows with Datadog's Amazon EventBridge integration

Amazon EventBridge is a serverless event bus that routes real-time data streams from your applications and services to targets like AWS Lambda. EventBridge facilitates event-driven application development by simplifying the process of ingesting and delivering events across your application architecture, and by providing built-in security and error handling. We are excited to announce that you can now use our new integration to route Datadog alerts to EventBridge with minimal configuration or setup.

Cross-tenant monitoring with Azure Lighthouse and Datadog

Azure Lighthouse is a new feature that provides improved access management for users and applications across different Azure tenants. With Azure Lighthouse, managed service providers (MSPs) can manage their customers’ environments more easily and efficiently than ever before. Datadog is proud to announce support for Azure Lighthouse, which ensures that MSPs can implement a streamlined, scalable approach to monitoring their customers’ Azure environments.

A Guide to Open Source Monitoring Tools

Open source is one of the key drivers of DevOps. The need for flexibility, speed, and cost-efficiency, is pushing organizations to embrace an open source-first approach when designing and implementing the DevOps lifecycle. Monitoring — the process of gathering telemetry data on the operation of an IT environment to gauge performance and troubleshoot issues — is a perfect example of how open source acts as both a driver and enabler of DevOps methodologies.

What do these error codes mean?

The other day whilst using a very popular website I came across a series of 404 unavailable page messages. I didn’t think much about it at the time but on reflection it made me wonder how many people actually understand what different error codes mean? Hands up, I only know a few and I work in the website monitoring sector. To most, it just means a weird IT message when things go wrong.