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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Understanding and resolving frequent website downtime issues

Website uptime is crucial for businesses to maintain a strong online presence and ensure a positive user experience. However, frequent website downtime can harm your brand reputation, customer loyalty, and your bottom line. This blog post will explore the common causes of website downtime and provide practical solutions to diagnose and resolve these issues effectively.

Improve your shift-left observability with the Datadog Service Catalog

Your applications are only as powerful as they are iterable. To keep up with their rapidly changing production environments, your teams need reliable CI/CD systems that implement best practices—including build and test automation, flaky test management, and deployment management. By optimizing their CI/CD pipelines, your teams can build their apps more efficiently, deploy them more safely, and catch bugs and security vulnerabilities before they make it to production.

Essential Help Desk Metrics & KPIs to Measure Performance

Does your business have a help desk in place? Are you tracking its performance? Knowing which metrics and KPIs to measure can differentiate success and failure. This article will explore the essential helpdesk metrics and KPIs and how they can help you optimize customer service. The help desk is responsible for providing support to employees and customers who need assistance with technical issues.

The Ultimate Guide to Azure Synapse Cost Optimization: Save Big on Cloud Expenses

Microsoft’s Azure Synapse is a cloud-based analytics service that transforms how organizations analyze and visualize large datasets in real-time for better decision-making. To maximize its benefits, effective cost management is crucial, emphasizing the importance of “Azure Synapse cost optimization.” This analytics powerhouse accelerates insight across data warehouses and big data systems by integrating SQL and Spark technologies, along with tools like Data Explorer and Pipelines.

Grafana Cloud 2023: Year in review

Open source is the foundation of everything we do here at Grafana Labs, and that was on full display this year as we celebrated the 10th anniversary of Grafana and continued to improve and expand our lineup of OSS projects. But 2023 was also a banner year for Grafana Cloud, as more organizations than ever turned to the fully managed stack to carry out their observability strategies more easily and quickly.

Real User Monitoring Demystified: Elevating User Experiences and Web Performance

With constantly decreasing user attention spans, ensuring a seamless user experience has become a priority for all digital businesses. Users who encounter minimal application disruptions and responsive interactions will likely stay engaged and loyal to your product. And that’s exactly what RUM or Real User Monitoring tools such as Coralogix’s RUM solution offer.

Your Guide to Securing Project Funding and Yearly Budget Planning

As an engineer, you know your company’s problems, and you know what to do about them. However, being heard within your organization and funding a project can be challenging. Top executives might not understand your job’s ins and outs of the tools you need to do it well. Still, you need people holding the purse strings to understand why investing in your idea is brilliant.

Prioritize network bandwidth performance with NetFlow Analyzer's QoS traffic shaping strategies

An unobstructed flow of data is paramount when it comes to achieving a smooth and fast network experience for users. As a network administrator, it is essential to ensure a fair distribution of bandwidth for resource-intensive applications, maintain an uninterrupted flow of network speed, and guarantee a secure network that’s free from internal and external threats. It is also important to keep an eye on latency, packet loss, and jitter and comply with service level agreements (SLAs).

Apica 2024 and Beyond: Navigating the Future Amidst Global Challenges

As we step into 2024 and look toward the future, it’s evident that the world faces a multitude of challenges. From global risks to technological advancements, these changes will shape our lives in profound ways. This blog post delves into Apica‘s predictions for 2024 and beyond, exploring the impacts and adaptations required in various sectors.