Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How to Extract Numerical Values from API Responses

Extracting numerical values from public or private JSON API responses can help you track and analyze data, easily spot trends, and alert on data that is important to your business. If you can passively have this information periodically come to you and if you can receive alert notifications when certain conditions are met, you can avoid checking each metric manually and – obviously – save a ton of time. Synthetic monitoring tools let you do these things automatically.

How to Periodically Extract Webpage Performance Metrics from Browser API

To ensure a good end user experience, smart businesses periodically gather performance data from their websites. They measure the responsiveness and speed of their services to ensure fast and reliable websites. Having a responsive and fast website improves companies’ conversion rates, keeps their reputation intact, and helps increase traffic and revenue. Website monitoring applications help determine whether the website achieves the desired response times and uptimes.

How to Track Your Company's Rating on a Website

Websites provide advisory services, research, and user reviews on SaaS companies to help users find the right product for their needs. Information and reviews shared by genuine users of your product or service is the strongest recommendation that can be received by your potential customers. This is why online user reviews are important for eCommerce and SaaS companies.

Top tips: Five ways you can reduce unplanned network downtime

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list out ways to explore these trends. This week we’re looking at five ways your business can minimize unplanned network downtime. Network downtime is the bane of the IT service provider. It disrupts not only internal operations, but can greatly inconvenience your customer who relies on the uninterrupted access to and the full functioning of your product or service.

Why are organizations increasing their IT spending despite a recession?

Soaring inflation, rising interest rates, supply chain disruption, spikes in chip costs, war, and other market crises have collectively crippled the global economy. As a result, businesses across industries and sizes have started tightening their belt, looking for any way to optimize their spending. With businesses running on a digital layer, optimizing spending on technology holds prominence. CIOs and CTOs now feel more accountable for every penny that goes into IT.

How to Extract Numerical Data from a Web Page for Dashboarding and Alerting

Over the years working as a software engineer and now a product manager, I’ve encountered multiple situations where I needed to extract numerical data from a page on a periodic basis and create visualizations, typically line charts to help me see trends over time. For example, I wanted to extract product prices and monitor them over time. Or, I wanted to query a search engine periodically and extract the number of matches or the position of a specific page for SEO purposes.

A Step-by-step Guide to Implementing a Patch Management Process

A proper Patch Management process is crucial as it helps prevent data breaches by fixing security vulnerabilities and bugs. It is also the way to make sure all your devices run the latest software versions, which implies having access to updated functions and characteristics. Just so we are all on the same page, Patch Management consists of acquiring, testing, distributing, and installing updates or software patches.

Barcode trends: The future of inventory management

With advances in technology, inventory management has evolved considerably, from traditional manual methods to more automated and intelligent systems. In this article, we’ll take a look at barcode trends, exploring how artificial intelligence (AI) and new technologies are revolutionizing the way companies manage their inventory.

Special report: Putting GenAI to work in the enterprise

Generative AI (GenAI) is on track to be the most powerful technology of our time. As such, it’s created quite a buzz. “Generative AI has awakened people's imagination for AI,” explains ServiceNow Chief Information Officer Chris Bedi. “AI has been around for a long time. People use machine learning models, but they couldn't feel and touch it like generative AI.

Grafana Loki 2.9 release: TSDB volume endpoints, remote rule evaluations, LogQL optimizations

The Loki squad is excited to announce Grafana Loki 2.9 is here! For this release, we’ve developed additional TSDB endpoints to help you better understand your log volume; introduced query language optimizations to make parsing more performant; and restructured our documentation so it is easier to use. This coincides with the release of Grafana Enterprise Logs (GEL) 1.8, so all the features discussed here are available in both Loki 2.9 and GEL 1.8.