Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

A cron job is used to schedule and carry out specific tasks. It automates the process and periodically executes it in the background. You can keep track of whether a given cron job is running or not with the help of a cron job monitoring tool. You must first configure a cron job in the monitoring tool before you can monitor it. After then, the tool checks the status regularly and notifies you when a problem occurs. This article lists the top 10 tools for online cron job monitoring.

When we talk about the business value of a tool or a system that at first glance may seem like a “nice to have” or a “helpful but not absolutely necessary” technology, it is a good idea to start any discussion on the merits of the tool by putting some things into perspective.

Web performance greatly influences the user experience through engagement with your brand and impression of your products. For example, page speed is directly proportional to how long people stay on a site. As a result, there’s much more demand for network optimization on modern devices, including AR, IoT, cloud drives, and mobile apps. When your network stretches across hundreds of locations, the server ends up receiving the output from tons of clients at the same time.

Whether you’re a DevOps, SRE, or just a data driven individual, you’re probably addicted to dashboards and metrics. We look at our metrics to see how our system is doing, whether on the infrastructure, the application or the business level. We trust our metrics to show us the status of our system and where it misbehaves. But do our metrics show us what really happened? You’d be surprised how often it’s not the case.

Syslog is an important messaging protocol in computing systems where it is used to send system logs or event messages to a specific server. In Python, you can either use the syslog module or the logging module to collect and send syslogs to a central server. Logging is important to audit and debug your software. You can set logging to your running application to help monitor its behavior locally or system-wide. In this tutorial, we will learn how to configure logging to syslog in Python.

Time waits for no one, and the years just seem to fly by. For us at ManageEngine, this year was especially memorable as we turned 20. And, as the best birthday gift ever, you helped us hit the most coveted milestone that many can only dream of achieving. Zoho Corporation, the parent company of ManageEngine, hit $1 billion in revenue earlier this year—and we have only YOU to be thankful for. But, that’s not all.