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Website change detection is a technique that alerts relevant people when a website is modified or updated. A web crawler can review a website on a regular basis to see whether there have been any changes since the previous time it was checked. Monitoring a web page is considered an important step in marketing, sales and advertising, and product support initiatives.

Today is test day at Curborough Sprint Track, and the University of Nottingham’s Race Team is taking its creation out for a spin. Frankie is their fully electric 2WD vehicle, able to achieve speeds of up to 80mph (129 km/h). The Team uses Tracealyzer to test the functionality of their embedded software; while writing the code, to record the trace while Frankie is running, and to review the data afterwards. And with great results.

Securing modern-day production systems is expensive and complex. Teams often need to implement extensive measures, such as secure coding practices, security testing, periodic vulnerability scans and penetration tests, and protections at the network edge. Even when organizations have the resources to deploy these solutions, they still struggle to keep pace with software teams, especially as they accelerate their release cycles and migrate to distributed systems and microservices.

mainstorconcept’s z/IRIS software provides performance monitoring solutions for IBM mainframe z/OS systems, so you can assess your mainframes’ health and their impact on mission-critical services. With support for OpenTelemetry, z/IRIS creates integrable observability data from your mainframe systems.

Jumping into monitoring software for the first time can be pretty overwhelming. If you're not in an exploring mood, it can be easy to get lost, and you're not entirely sure what all these knobs and buttons do. To help lighten this feeling for OnlineOrNot, I thought it might be useful to let folks know how I use OnlineOrNot, to monitor OnlineOrNot (as part of running OnlineOrNot day to day). Also, our friends at DebugBear wrote a similar article about how DebugBear uses DebugBear to keep their site fast.

When it comes to sophisticated software like System Center Operations Manager (SCOM), where a structure is vital to maintain your environment, your naming conventions are the key to long-term success. Many different people are involved in the process of monitoring. To maintain documentation and procedures, you must define how you should name parts used in SCOM. Everything from the management group name to groups, management packs, override management packs, views, and folders.

Two major shifts are simultaneously taking place in the world of website monitoring: the acceleration of digital dependence has increased the need for high-performing websites and the frequency (and severity) of downtime outages continues to climb. These shifts have made it more important than ever for businesses of all sizes and industries to monitor uptime and page speed.