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Have you found yourself asking this question when seeing website monitoring solutions flash up on Google? Has your dev team been trying to convince you to get a monitoring tool but you’re not sure what the benefits are? Don’t worry, I’ve compiled a list of the top reasons why website monitoring is so important to you and your website. But you don’t have to take my word for it, read on and find out.

When it comes to data storage, all data isn’t equal. After all, the data you use daily doesn’t need the same level of protection or ease of access as long-term hot storage vs. cold storage backup. A large percentage of a business’ data remains unleveraged due to data management and security challenges, which highlights the need to implement a data storage strategy.

This is one of a series of blogs in which we introduce AppScope 1.0 with stories that demonstrate how AppScope changes the game for SREs and developers, as well as Infosec, DevSecOps, and ITOps practitioners. In the coming weeks, Part 2 of this post will tackle another Infosec use case. If you’re in Infosec, at some point you’ve doubtless had to vet an application before it’s allowed to run in an enterprise environment.

Early Twitter was an adventure. Every day was an open question: would you be able to log in or did the next big story crash the platform? It was taking off and crashing and flying and crashing again. All in real time. It was an exciting time for the internet, and while everything has changed since then it got us thinking: why did we used to tolerate stuff just not working? And why do we still tolerate stuff not working?

As organizations have moved toward a microservices design pattern, the need for reliable and performant solutions that enable decoupled services to communicate with one another has grown. RabbitMQ is an open-source message broker designed for this purpose. We’ll discuss what RabbitMQ is, how it works, why it needs to be monitored and how Sumo Logic can effectively do this.

As a customer success engineer, I hear directly from customers about what issues they need help solving with SolarWinds SQL Sentry®. This insight first motivated me to create posts for the SQL Sentry Tips & Tricks series, which explains how to get the most out of SQL Sentry. Now, I’d like to create more tutorials about what I consider to be one of the most powerful features in SQL Sentry: Advisory Conditions.

This article covers such a popular topic as using aggregation rules for metrics. We will learn why it is important to use aggregations and what tools exist for working with them. Also, we will explore all the benefits of using MetricFire's Hosted Graphite solution to store, process, analyze and monitor your metrics.

Ever wonder what your application looks like from the “outside in”? Synthetic monitoring can give you a global overview of your application from your customer’s point of view, observing how systems and applications are performing by simulating the user experience. One tool to help achieve this is the Synthetic Monitoring app, which is a blackbox monitoring solution available in Grafana Cloud. You can use Synthetic Monitoring to monitor your services from all over the world.

As Product Manager for Avantra it gives me great pleasure to announce that our newest version, Avantra 21.11.4 is now available, packed full of new features and a few enhancements our customers have been asking for. Let’s dive into a few of the newest features that are the most exciting. As always, our release notes are publicly available here.