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Status Dashboards now automatically refresh!

Many customers have requested that StatusGator’s customizable, brandable, aggregated status dashboards automatically refresh. Well your auto refreshing dreams have just come true because StatusGator status dashboards now update every 5 minutes automatically! Each dashboard will now refresh every 300 seconds, otherwise known as 5 minutes, automatically. And, of course, you can still refresh your browser yourself to get the latest content.

Greater Expectations: How the Smartphone Put Employees in Charge

The first time I was introduced to a real, proper PC was in the early 90’s: my uncle’s work PC, which I used instead to play games. In fact, my first experience with any kind of tech support service was when I phoned the Codemasters help line after getting stuck on a particularly knotty puzzle in the game ‘Dizzy’. No matter how loudly I shouted into the phone, the machine continued to route me back to the beginning of its automated script.

Logz.io's New Lookz is Generally Available!

Back in June, we announced the Public Beta for Logz.io’s New Lookz – which is a new UI that completely changes the way users navigate across Logz.io products and features. The Public Beta gave users the option to toggle between the old and new UIs to see which one they liked better. And the answer from our users was as clear as it could be.

You can now customize the names of services in StatusGator

StatusGator is the easiest way to publish a unified status page featuring the status of all the services you depend on. Our public status dashboards have become a favorite feature allowing schools, startups, and enterprises alike to publish a quick and easy page showing the status of all their cloud services. One commonly requested feature has been the ability to customize the name of each status page listed in your dashboard.

Logz.io Extends Alert Communications via Microsoft Teams Integration

If you’re a DevOps practitioner working in a Microsoft-centric environment, you’ll be pleased to learn that Logz.io recently added support for the popular Teams communications hub to help broadcast pressing alerts and other monitoring data. The integration comes on the heels of making the Logz.io platform directly available from within the Azure Console and expands organizations’ abilities to communicate and share notifications about everything from log data to security events.

Jaeger vs Elastic APM - key differences, features and alternatives

Jaeger is an open-source end-to-end distributed tracing tool for microservices architecture. On the other hand, Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system that is built on top of the ELK Stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Beats). In this article, let's explore their key features, differences, and alternatives. Application performance monitoring is the process of keeping your app's health in check. APM tools enable you to be proactive about meeting the demands of your customers.

OP5's network monitoring as an alternative to SolarWinds' Orion

An infamous cyberattack in late 2020 made SolarWinds a household name in the tech industry after it was discovered to be at the center of a supply-chain attack on its Orion network management tool. That attack allowed state-sponsored actors to push a malicious update to nearly 18,000 customers, including U.S. government agencies and about 100 large private enterprises.

Node.js Performance Monitoring

Software developers use the Node.js environment to develop robust and innovative applications. But the bigger the goal, the higher the risk. Learn about Node.js performance monitoring to ensure quality and risk-free software products. Part of diligent software development is making sure all system applications work well individually and as a whole.