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Monitoring critical windows services and processes

Along with server performance metrics, such as CPU, disk, and memory usage, it is important to monitor the performance of each service and process running on the server to completely analyze the load on the system resources. This video shows how Site24x7 helps you achieve that. Say you're monitoring a Windows server with Site24x7. Along with tracking the performance metrics of the server, you can also track the performance of critical services like MySQL, Apache, and PostgreSQL, and processes like redis-server.exe.

Monitor dependency and alert suppression

A network outage triggers multiple redundant alerts and burns out your alert balance. Site24x7's monitor dependency configuration helps you effectively handle the alert flood during an outage. Let's say you're monitoring your server with Site24x7, along with a few plugins hosted in it. Any downtime faced by the server will also affect the plugins, resulting in a flood of alerts for the server and the individual plugins.

Comparing Real User Monitoring and Synthetic Transactions

Written by Nick Cavalancia, Microsoft Cloud & Datacenter MVP The need for visibility into service availability and delivery quality has led to the rise in interest in monitoring Microsoft’s Office 365 services from the user perspective. With two different approaches available, what value do they each bring?

How to Improve Core Web Vital Scores

From May 2021, Google is using ‘Core Web Vitals’ as a brand new ranking signal. Google states that business owners should monitor and improve their scores to avoid damaging their organic SEO. In this blog, we will explain how to improve Core Web Vitals scores. To discover the specific issues affecting your users’ experience, we strongly advise having a Core Web Vitals audit.

Intro to exemplars, which enable Grafana Tempo's distributed tracing at massive scale

Exemplars are a hot topic in observability recently, and for good reason. Similarly to how Prometheus disrupted the cost structure of storing metrics at scale beginning in 2012 and for real in 2015, and how Grafana Loki disrupted the cost structure of storing logs at scale in 2018, exemplars are doing the same to traces. To understand why, let’s look at both the history of observability in the cloud native ecosystem, and what optimizations exemplars enable.

Getting started with Dashboard Server

SquaredUp Dashboard Server lets you and your team create beautiful dashboards, for any tool or data, that you can share with everyone in your organization. Here’s a quick introduction to the product where we show you exactly what you can achieve, in no time at all. Let’s start with the three tabs on the top left of the screen: Getting Started, Next Steps, and Sample Dashboards. We’ll run through them one by one.