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Monitor your workflows with Datadog SSL, TLS, and Multistep API tests

API tests are key to ensuring your applications receive and respond to requests efficiently. For example, a slow API endpoint or an unexpected timeout in processing a request can significantly affect user experience, so API tests can help you monitor the performance of your endpoints and the overall health of your applications.

SolarWinds Alternatives

This week, an unfortunate incident got reported by the cybersecurity firm FireEye. According to FireEye, FireEye’s system was hacked via a product they were using, called Orion. Orion is SolarWinds’ most popular product, bringing in more than 50% of their revenue every year. It is believed that hackers funded by foreign governments compromised the networks of both public and private organizations via their SolarWinds monitoring service.

New and improved Web API tile with SquaredUp 5.0

Being able to visualize data from all of your tools in a unified dashboard experience has become critical to most enterprises today. With SquaredUp dashboards, you can not only correlate data from SCOM and Azure, but also surface critical information from your other tools and data sources – including ServiceNow, Azure Log Analytics, App Insights, all SQL databases and any Web API. In short, you can get unified dashboards with real-time operational intelligence for all teams across all tools.

How to get the size of all your Azure Storage Accounts

Do you really ever know how much Azure Storage you are consuming or how many Azure Storage Blobs you have in each of your Storage Accounts? Perhaps you just need an overview of your Azure Storage Account Consumption, including things like the number of Blobs per storage account, Number of Containers, and the Azure Blob Storage Capacity used. All this information is quite easy to gather from one of the several reports available in Cloud Storage Manager.

LogicMonitor Recognised as Tech Company of the Year at UK Business Tech Awards

London, UK – December 16, 2020 – LogicMonitor, the leading cloud-based IT infrastructure monitoring and observability platform, has been named Large Tech Company of the Year in the UK Business Tech Awards for 2020. Judged by an independent panel of some of the UK’s leading technology experts, the awards celebrate the UK’s finest tech businesses and reward innovative and exceptional application of technology to transform and grow businesses.

New LM Container, Argus, and Kubernetes Developments

LogicMonitor recently released LM Container Argus v4 and has made monitoring Kubernetes clusters even easier. We have updated our Add Kubernetes Cluster wizard to make customization easier in the installation process. Start by going through the normal configuration settings, and then you will have the option to edit additional configuration settings to the CollectorSet Controller and Argus YAML files.

How Slow is Slow?

Slow is the new downtime. What you once feared from a downed website — decreased conversion rates, lower page ranks, abandoned carts — now applies to a slow-loading experience. Problem is, slow is more nuanced than downtime; that is, while downtime is binary — the site’s either up or it isn’t — slow is in the eye of its beholder. It’s why asking what makes a slow website gets the same shrug from a developer as asking them how long an afternoon is.

How to Monitor IIS Performance

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) is a well-known web server that hosts web applications and is used in many sectors like banking, healthcare, logistics, E-commerce, etc. It is the backbone of many IT Infrastructures but if it encounters issues it can cause websites to experience higher response times. Hence, end-users often leave the website. A web server plays a vital role in an organization’s IT infrastructure.

Centralize the truth of your infrastructure with alarm notifications

Netdata is architected on every level, across both the open-source Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud, to help you own every layer of your monitoring experience. With this design, all metrics data collected by the Netdata Agent stays distributed on your node, but you also leverage Netdata Cloud’s dashboards and multi-node visualizations to view the health and performance of an entire infrastructure from a single application.

How Flowmon Helps to Detect SUNBURST Trojan Attack in Your Network

Flowmon Anomaly Detection System from Kemp now contains Indicators of Compromise (IoC) for the SUNBURST trojan specifically. Users of the Flowmon network detection and response (NDR) tool can check if they are under attack and set up measures to detect SUNBURST. This December, the world shook at the news of several US government bodies falling victim to a highly sophisticated attack.