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How to get a phone call when your cron job fails

Learn how you can get a phone call alert when your cron job fails. Spike.sh sends you alerts via phone call, SMS message, email and Slack when you have any issues in production. Spike.sh integrates with your infrastructure, performance monitoring, error tracking, uptime monitoring, API monitoring and cron job monitoring tools. Our integrations include AWS, Google Cloud, Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus, New Relic and many more.

Taking an API-First Approach to Network Management

Application programming interfaces (APIs) allow applications to communicate, interoperate, and share information with one another. APIs have been mainstays at companies like Google, Salesforce, and other smaller but innovative organizations for decades. Now, they’re also common in the public sector, with a wide range of agencies actively using hundreds of APIs.

Hybrid IT Environments - Another Twist in the Complex World of Modern Applications

Running your IT infrastructure from the cloud can be a smart choice for modern businesses. Cloud computing allows you to build a scalable, flexible architecture at an affordable price. But few businesses are 100% on the cloud. Businesses may have legacy systems or specific resources that work better on-premises, or they may have made a significant investment in on-premises hardware.

Hybrid IT Environments - Another Twist in the Complex World of Modern Applications

Running your IT infrastructure from the cloud can be a smart choice for modern businesses. Cloud computing allows you to build a scalable, flexible architecture at an affordable price. But few businesses are 100% on the cloud. Businesses may have legacy systems or specific resources that work better on-premises, or they may have made a significant investment in on-premises hardware.

Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 3 - Tying Up Loose Ends

In my previous Link Analysis blogs, "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 1 - Data Reduction" and "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 2 - The Visual Part," I used techniques that work well when we have a controlled data set. However, as we know, real data can be messy. When analyzing links in fraud data, the data can be very noisy. Let’s say we want to use IP addresses for link analysis in the Splunk platform. It is not unusual for two people to share an IP address.

A New Chapter: Nexthink's $1.1B Valuation

Among the many topics that a tech founder CEO can write about in a blog, I always feel that fundraising announcements are the least glorious especially when compared to announcing great achievements such as business growth, new products, or meaningful partnerships. However, funding is a moment when others take notice, it’s a major milestone for the team and an acknowledgement from the market that what we’re building is needed and in-demand.

Using the Cloud Monitoring Dashboard Editor

Want to visualize your monitoring data like never before? In this episode of Stack Doctor, we show you how to use the new Dashboard Editor to easily visualize your Cloud Monitoring data. Specifically, we’ll show you how to create a dashboard using gauges, scorecards, and text widgets and how you can utilize the new layouts and chart configuration modes to closely monitor the health of your services!

Understanding and Debugging Applications Using the Service Map

Elastic APM is an application performance monitoring system built on the Elastic Stack. Elastic APM makes it easy to pinpoint and fix performance problems quickly. In this video, you will learn what distributed tracing is, how it can be used to better understand your environment, and how service maps give you a quick overview of your architecture.

ADS 11.2 - More than ordinary blacklists

Improve your security posture with community Indicators of Compromise and use reputation data to detect threats in encrypted traffic. On the digital battleground, it pays to stay on your toes, but there are ways to make the work easier. Flowmon ADS 11.2 brings you new and refined methods of avoiding known threats and learning from attacks carried out against others. Main news.