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How does website monitoring even work?

Apr 28, 2025 By Mattias Geniar In Oh Dear
Every website manager knows that feeling when you look at your inbox only to find a customer notifying you that a core page of your site is down. The worst part of it all, you don’t know how long that page has been down for. If you’ve yet to experience that, count your blessings. Well, unless you decide to opt for a website monitoring solution before it happens to you. With website monitoring, you can ensure every page on your site is up and running at all times.
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Building a Simple Synthetic Monitor With OpenTelemetry

Apr 28, 2025 By Martin Thwaites In Honeycomb
Using server-side telemetry to understand what’s going on inside your system is incredibly valuable, but what about the responsiveness the user actually sees? In this post, I’ll cover what synthetic monitoring is and show an example of how you can create a simple monitor using OpenTelemetry, .NET, and an Azure function. If you only want to see how it’s built, skip ahead to building a synthetic monitor.
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Events, Alert, and Incidents: What's The Difference? How Do They Relate?

Apr 28, 2025 By Joseph Nduhiu In Splunk
Effectively managing events and alerts is essential for preventing or quickly resolving incidents, whether it’s a sudden service outage or an ongoing cyberattack. The three terms — events, alerts, incidents — are different but they are closely related. Read on to learn more. Ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of IT systems is both the heart of operational excellence and an important strategic objective for digital organizations.
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Why choose StatusGator: The smarter way to stay ahead of cloud outages

Apr 27, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
In today’s cloud-first world, downtime isn’t just an inconvenience—it disrupts work, frustrates users, and costs money. Whether you’re in DevOps, IT support, or engineering, it’s critical to stay informed about outages affecting the services your company relies on. That’s where StatusGator comes in.
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Bulletproof strategies against 6 security incident types

Apr 26, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Every 11 seconds, a business falls victim to a cyberattack. The financial impact is staggering: $10.5 trillion in annual damages predicted in 2025. But beyond the immediate costs, security incidents can permanently damage your reputation, destroy customer trust, and even force your company to close its doors. What's particularly alarming is how unprepared most organizations are.
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DevOps project management: A comprehensive guide for startups

Apr 26, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
DevOps teams in startups face a unique challenge: delivering reliable systems with limited resources while keeping pace with rapid growth and change. But search for "DevOps project management," and you'll find yourself drowning in enterprise frameworks, complex methodologies, and expensive tools that seem disconnected from startup realities. It's hard to know which approaches actually work when you're operating with constraints on time, budget, and personnel.
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Continuous testing in DevOps: The missing piece for reliable systems

Apr 26, 2025 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Reliable, high-performing systems are the lifeblood of modern digital businesses. But it's hard to know where to start, especially when you're a startup with limited resources and a small DevOps or SRE team. Fortunately, effective continuous testing doesn't have to be overly complicated. In this guide, we'll break down the essential components of continuous testing in DevOps, with special attention to the often-overlooked monitoring aspect that can make or break your testing strategy.
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How to Configure OpenTelemetry as an Agent with the Carbon Exporter

Apr 25, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
If you're already using OpenTelemetry for tracing and logs, adding otelcol-contrib as an agent for system metrics just makes sense. It keeps everything in the same pipeline, so you're not juggling multiple monitoring tools or dealing with inconsistent data formats. Plus, with built-in support for host metrics, custom processing, and direct exports to Graphite, it's a solid way to ship performance data without extra overhead. In this article, we'll detail how to install the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution, and configure it to export system performance metrics to a Graphite datasource.
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Fabrix.ai Demo Day Showcases Agentic Platform and AGNTCY Collective Ecosystem Alliance

Apr 25, 2025 By Shailesh Manjrekar In Fabrix
Fabrix.ai, a pioneer in enterprise-ready agentic AI solutions, successfully hosted its highly anticipated Agentic AI Demo Day yesterday, bringing together IT operations, NOC operations, and AI operations professionals for a comprehensive showcase of its Purpose-built Agentic AI Operational Intelligence Platform.
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