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What is Uptime Monitoring and Why You Need It for Your Website

Your website is the lifeblood of your business. It’s how you connect with your customers and market your product or service. You want to know that it’s running smoothly at all times, but that may not always be the case. Sites go down due to many different events such as DDoS attacks, hardware failures, and human error. Luckily, there are ways to monitor your site for downtime and take precautions before it reaches critical status.

A collection of 24 great 404 http error pages

The 404 error is one of the most common web errors experienced by users. There are a number of different reasons that the server might not be able to find the resources requested by the user. For example, if a link on your site points to a non-existent page, a 404 error will be generated by the server. Here is a collection of 24 great 404 pages for your inspiration.

Going off-label with Grafana Loki: How to set up a low-cost Twitter analysis

The term “off-label” is used to describe when a product is being used successfully for something other than its intended purpose. It’s a quite common occurrence in the pharmaceutical industry, but it can also happen in the world of software. Grafana Loki was written as — and is marketed as — a simple, Prometheus-friendly logging backend with a very low total cost of ownership.

A Beginner's Guide for Grafana Loki (Open-source Log Aggregation by Prometheus)

Many logging solutions are available on the market to deal with log data, each focusing on a different part of the logging issue including log aggregation. These solutions are open-source and proprietary software and tools incorporated into cloud provider platforms, as well as a variety of capabilities to fulfill your requirements. Grafana Loki is a new industry solution, so let's take a closer look at what it is, where it originated from, and whether it can suit your logging requirements.

Advanced filters on the upcoming Traces tab, 40+ PRs and getting featured - SigNal 09

Hola! Welcome to SigNal 09, where I will run you through the updates of the first month of 2022! The focus of the month was our upcoming brand new Traces page. It will enhance the application debugging experience manifolds with powerful filters to see your data across different dimensions. We also launched our Technical Writer Program. The idea is to educate our community more about SigNoz, OpenTelemetry, and distributed tracing among other things.

New release: SquaredUp 5.4 - Bring your answers to the surface

SquaredUp 5.4 is here and it’s got some brilliant new features and upgrades to help you troubleshoot and find answers faster than ever. You’ll find the upgrades across all three SquaredUp editions – for SCOM, Azure, and the free Community Edition. Here are the highlights in the new release: Check out our release webinar for a detailed walkthrough and demo.

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A SNMP-enabled temperature + humidity sensor for under $110

Monitoring temperature and humidity in a server room are quite important if you want to reduce the risk of expensive equipment failure. Yet, many server rooms either aren’t monitored at all or rely on ancient wall-thermostats that, in case of a problem, only emit desperate beeps that nobody will hear.