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

Monitoring DigitalOcean Billing with InfluxDB

I’ve always had a good experience using DigitalOcean, a cloud infrastructure provider which offers developers cloud services that help deploy and scale applications that run simultaneously on multiple computers. I’ve used DigitalOcean a lot for my personal projects — for example, to host my personal blog, its stats, and a NextCloud instance, all running in Kubernetes.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.3

Virtualization is part of many IT environments and a very effective way to reduce expenses while boosting efficiency and flexibility. The NiCE VMware Management Pack enables advanced health and performance monitoring for VMware to leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time, and build efficiencies that will help shape a future-proof business.

Use Datadog geomaps to visualize your app data by location

Being able to track and aggregate data by region is important when monitoring your application. It can provide visibility into where errors and latency might be occurring, where security threats might be originating, and more. Now, you can use Datadog geomaps to visualize data on a color-coded world map. This helps you understand geographic patterns at a glance, including where users are experiencing outages, app revenue by country, or if a surge in requests is coming from one particular location.

How to Find Memory Leaks in Websites and Web Applications

Knowing how your users interact with your web application and how they experience it is crucial to provide the best possible experience. So what do you need to know? Start with metrics such as page load times, HTTP request times, and core Web Vitals – time to the first byte, first contentful paint. If you use Sematext Experience you’ll see a number of other useful metrics for your web applications and websites there. However, metrics themselves are only a part of the whole picture.

Single-Tenant Cloud vs Multi-Tenant Cloud

In this article, we shall talk about the advantages and disadvantages of single-tenant cloud and multi-tenant cloud. So let us get started! In the past decade adoption of cloud computing has been off the charts. For a long time most companies (primarily enterprises) managed their own IT infrastructure and they could reap the benefits of isolation, privacy and greater management control. This is what is known as a single tenant cloud architecture i.e.

Four ways to send SCOM alerts to ServiceNow

If you work with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) and ServiceNow then you will be familiar with the fear of missing a critical infrastructure alert! But fear no more, we have just the ticket! Imagine if you could get these two tools working together, to fully synchronize your alerts and incidents for the lifetime of an issue – you’d be living the ITSM dream, right! So, here are our top four methods for making this dream a reality.

Key Differences Between Observability and Monitoring - And Why You Need Both

Observability and Monitoring are viewed by many as interchangeable terms. This is not the case. While they are interlinked, they are not interchangeable. There are actually very clear and defined differences between them. Monitoring is asking your system questions about its current state. Usually these are performance related, and there are many open source monitoring tools available. Many of those available are also specialized.

The State of EdTech 2021: Education Software Usage Analyzed

Today we will share our list of the most popular software tools used by education institutions. Why is this important? If you are managing technology in education you need to make the best choice from among many available tools. Discovering the most popular tools used by other education professionals can help you make an informed choice. After reading the report you’ll know which tools are relied upon by primary and secondary schools, colleges, and universities in the United States.

LogicMonitor Welcomes Airbrake

“Today’s an exciting day for LogicMonitor. But before I share our news, I want to sincerely thank our customers for your business. The Covid-19 pandemic has been a terrible experience for the world, and yet we @ LogicMonitor are fortunate and thankful to be counted on every day by thousands of organizations. I — and our team of over 650 employees worldwide — are grateful for the chance to serve your organizations during these turbulent times”

Container Monitoring: Essential Tools + Best Practices

In the Modern era of application development, businesses move towards building highly available, fault-tolerant, zero downtime applications to make the user experience and performance smoother and better. One of the essential steps in that process is containerization and orchestration of an application. A Container Monitoring process is as vital as containerizing your application.