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Using NGINX for targeted access to the Sensu Core 1.4 API

NGINX can be used as a proxy to provide authenticated access to specific endpoints for any RESTful service API — including the Sensu API. Below I provide an NGINX configuration to grant external service provides narrow access to only create check results in the Sensu 1.4 API external service providers. But first, here's some backstory of how I got here.

StatusCake App released for iOS and Android Devices

You can now install our very own StatusCake app on any iOS or Android device. This means you can check your test status on the go wherever you are without needing to log into email or access the StatusCake site in a mobile view! At launch the app covers Uptime, SSL and PageSpeed type tests, and you can view all of the important information for each type at a glance. All you will need to make use of this is your StatusCake username and API key.

How to monitor the proper functioning of an online store

You are definitely registering user traffic in your store. You are most likely also tracking the position of your website on Google. You are also highly likely to track mentions of your brand on the Internet. But do you monitor the availability and proper functioning of your store?

Wrapping Up ElixirConf 2018

I'm on the 6:10pm Amtrak Cascades out of Seattle, scheduled to arrive in Portland at 10:00pm. After two intense days in Bellevue, I'm exhausted, but wired. A group of young guys two rows up are loudly discussing their favorite AWS services; I wonder if they're also returning from ElixirConf, but then I remember that this is Seattle—half the city works in tech.

New and Improved Integrations for Github, Jira, Bitbucket, Azure DevOps, & GitHub Enterprise

Essential to Sentry are the other tools that you use in tandem with us via integrations. Which is precisely why our newest update is entirely focused on new and improved versions of several of these integrations. There are a number of big additions here, relating to two-way sync, expanding our Suspect Commits feature, account login, and organization-wide setup.

Datadog APM gains 3 superpowers: Trace Search, Service Map & Watchdog

Since we made Datadog APM generally available last year, we have continually added new features and support for new languages and frameworks to ensure that you can monitor every aspect of application performance. Datadog APM helps companies such as Airbnb, Square, and Zendesk to optimize application performance and deliver top-notch customer experiences.

CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #1

CloudReady dashboards enable a great degree of customization, a wide array of widgets, and the ability to build visualizations for monitoring the health, availability, and performance of all of your SaaS apps — especially Office 365. If you’re going to build a dashboard for all of your cloud/SaaS apps you want to be able to customize and get it just right for the different teams within your organization.