Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

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

Making Your Log Data More Useful With LM Logs

To prevent failure and minimize downtime, it’s important to make sure your infrastructure and applications are observable. But, just getting to the point of observability isn’t enough. You need to be able to use the data that comes with observability — ideally in a way that helps your team troubleshoot more quickly and minimize or prevent downtime.

ITOps In 2 Minutes | AIOps vs MLOps | Jay Menon

The OpsRamp IT operations management (ITOM) platform allows you to see everything in your hybrid IT environment, take the right action faster with integrated event and incident management and automate with confidence with AIOps. Learn more about our service-centric AIOps platform. With OpsRamp, you can detect and resolve incidents faster, understand resource dependencies and avoid costly performance issues that result in lost revenue and productivity.

Working with the WebAPI tile - tips & tricks

Regardless of the SquaredUp product you use, the WebAPI tile is very useful when it comes to connecting to external data sources and showing them in your dashboards. It brings you closer to that single pane of glass dashboarding dream that we all have, which is why it is also one of our most used tiles!

5 Technical Metrics You Need for Observability in Marketing

Metrics measuring user engagement on your website are crucial for observability in marketing. Metrics will help marketing departments understand which of your web pages do not provide value for your business. Once known, developers can look at the web page’s technical metrics and determine if updates are required. Typically user engagement statistics, like the average time required to load your page, are stored separately from technical site logs.

PromQL Tutorial: 5 Tricks to Become a Prometheus God

For the seasoned user, PromQL confers the ability to analyze metrics and achieve high levels of observability. Unfortunately, PromQL has a reputation among novices for being a tough nut to crack. Fear not! This PromQL tutorial will show you five paths to Prometheus godhood. Using these tricks will allow you to use Prometheus with the throttle wide open.

What to Consider When Monitoring Hybrid Cloud Architecture

Hybrid cloud architectures provide the flexibility to utilize both public and cloud environments in the same infrastructure. This enables scalability and power that is easy and cost-effective to leverage. However, an ecosystem containing components with dependencies layered across multiple clouds has its own unique challenges. Adopting a hybrid monitoring strategy doesn’t mean you need to start from scratch, but it does require a shift in focus and some additional considerations.

Infographic: The State of Software Code

We surveyed nearly 1,000 developers across the U.S. to uncover key development trends and insights. Today’s businesses are software businesses. If there was any positive in 2020, it’s the power software has to allow us to continue in some “normal” sense. Learn how this survey uncovers how too many companies and their development teams still have a major blind spot when it comes to errors in their code.

How Does Page Load Time Affect Your Conversion Rate?

As a consumer, you know how you respond to slow sites. You hit the back button or close the browser. As a business owner, you’re well aware of this. You’re a consumer, too, after all. So, you know page load time and conversion rate are related. But how exactly? How does it affect the bottom line? In this article, we’ll analyze how page load time affects conversion rates and by how much.

How Endpoint Monitoring Saved My Life (Or At Least My Sanity)

Catchpoint makes parenting a saner sport! OK, that’s not the usual use case. But much as I know it sounds crazy, I used Endpoint Monitoring to explain to my 11-year-old gamer that I’m totally innocent. The reason she is having gaming lag and lost connections is not because of her parents’ poor home Wi-Fi or her old PC – and she doesn’t just have to take my word for it. Here, let me explain.