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A Complete Guide to Google's Core Web Vitals and How to Optimize Them

The success of your website lies in how satisfied your users are with it. To help ensure the quality of your user experience, Google uses various signals from a web page. The three Core Web Vitals are some of the most important ones. In this article, I’ll talk about what each Core Web Vital means and how to optimize them to deliver a better user experience.

Optimize Application Performance with Code Profiling

When monitoring your application performance or troubleshooting an issue in production, context is key. The more information available, the faster the prevention of or detection of a user impacting issue. Observability tools offer many different features, like code profiling, to help contextualize your data. In this post, I’ll discuss what code profiling is and show an example of how it works.

Routing Strategies for Security and Observability Data: How to Make the Most of Your Data at Scale

Data routing is a crucial but complex task for companies of all sizes. Ensuring that the right data is sent to the right tools can be a time-consuming and difficult process, and when things go wrong, it can have costly consequences. This is why having a robust data routing strategy is essential for any organization.

An Introduction to AWS Monitoring with Prometheus and Logz.io

Prometheus is a widely utilized time-series database for monitoring the health and performance of AWS infrastructure. With its ecosystem of data collection, storage, alerting, and analysis capabilities, among others, the open source tool set offers a complete package of monitoring solutions. Prometheus is ideal for scraping metrics from cloud-native services, storing the data for analysis, and monitoring the data with alerts.

Held for Ransom - Ransomware Detection & Response with Flowmon ADS

Flowmon Anomaly Detection System takes an AI-based approach to detecting and alerting on the presence of threat actors within your network from the point of initial access all the way through to exploitation. Gaining visibility into a Ransomware attack by mapping a threat actors earliest movements within your network enables you to stop the attack in its infancy. Flowmon's forensic visibility has you covered with all of the evidence you will need to conduct your investigation following an attack attempt.

Business Continuity vs. Business Resilience: Comparing Strategies for Staying Resilient

If there is one thing organizations can take away from the past few years, it's that they are far more vulnerable than they could realize before. From pandemics to critical supply shortages to widespread data breaches and natural disasters, businesses that don’t have plans in place to handle and respond to emergencies are at tremendous risk. As leaders plan for inevitable crises and disruption, interest in business resilience and continuity grows.

4 Causes of Website Downtime and How to Monitor Them

A lot of site owners underestimate the consequences of downtime, assuming that a brief outage won’t do much harm to their business. But this can leave them with broken web pages that are either poorly rendered or filled with bugs, frustrating users into hitting the “back” button since they can’t navigate the site. The truth is, keeping outages at bay beats fixing them after the fact, even with a guaranteed backup plan.