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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Securing Exchange Server OWA & ActiveSync - Proactive Security with EventSentry

With the proper auditing enabled (Logon/Logoff – Logon (Failure)) and EventSentry installed however, we can permanently block remote users / hosts who attempt to log on too many times with a wrong password. Setting this up is surprisingly simple.

This Week's Data Processing Lag

This week at Skylight HQ (technically it’s in the Cloud somewhere), we were hit with a pretty big surge of requests on our collector (Cyber Monday perhaps?). Fortunately our backend is architected to handle a very large volume of data from the agents with minimal latency, so this kind of surge on our backend would not affect the performance of your apps in any way (in addition, the agent is sending data in the background from a different process separate from your app/server).

Negative Impact of Website Downtime

There are millions of reasons why sites go down. It could be an equipment malfunction or server overload. You might also experience data center problems, or you were just careless enough to forget to renew your domain name. Even worse, your site could be a hacker victim. Regardless of the cause, you need to resolve the problem as soon as it starts, because downtime can hurt your business.