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How we made an 83% performance improvement using Real User Monitoring

As applications evolve, we may start to lose visibility into why things are slow. Web apps often suffer in silence as customers are more likely to leave when they’re unsatisfied rather than reach out. Complex user flows, resource-intensive API calls, and an ever-growing codebase can all contribute to poor performance. This is why we don’t have scheduled performance days.

Manage Office 365 Outages With ServiceNow Integration

Enterprises continue to invest heavily in modernizing their IT infrastructure. That leaves network administrators and NOC analysts challenged with effectively monitoring an evolving digital landscape. The goal becomes to meet the service needs of customers and ensure the underlying infrastructure is resilient.

Should I Buy or Should I Build; or "When is Free Software Free"?

Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster? Quick, no conferring. If you thought the answer was “nothing”, go to the back of the class. According to distributed systems expert Cindy Sridharan, quoted in Cloud Native DevOps with Kubernetes, the answer is “one million dollars”: It takes well over a million dollars just in engineer salary to get Kubernetes up and running from scratch. And you still might not get there.

Nationwide Building Society: Ensuring Continuous Quality for DevOps Success

DevOps promised that we could deliver more, faster, and with confidence. But blockers to adoption and transformation can make those goals hard to achieve. From disjointed toolchains to a lack of predictability and visibility - persistent challenges can make DevOps success elusive and frustrating. Join us for a discussion with Rich Jordan, Test Engineering Manager at Nationwide Building Society, the world’s largest building society.

Measuring Employee Experience

In today’s tip of the day, we’ll look at the importance of measuring employee experience (EX) and the specific challenges of doing so with an all-remote workforce. In the video, I’ll walk you through how to look at your employees’ SaaS performance using Catchpoint’s dashboard, so you can see the level of detail available to you with Catchpoint’s endpoint monitoring solution.

3 Reasons Why It's a Bad Idea to Buy Site Monitoring from Your Web Host

For baseball pitchers, the two most glorious words in the English language are “perfect game.” For actors, it’s “Oscar win” (forget all that nonsense about how “it’s an honor just to be nominated.”). For school-aged kids, it’s “snow day.” And for businesses, of course, it’s “captive audience.” Indeed, it doesn’t matter how compelling or clever a marketing and advertising campaign might be.

Jaeger Turns Five: A Tribute to Project Contributors

August 3rd, 2015 was the date of the first commit in the internal Jaeger repository at Uber. Technically, the true birthday of the project was probably a week or so earlier, because while I was prototyping the collector service we went through a number of project names, some of them rather embarrassing to name here, and the real first commits happened in a differently named repository.

OpsRamp Industry Recognition: ITOM, Infrastructure Monitoring, AIOps

In the first two quarters of 2020, OpsRamp has received market recognition from four independent analyst firms: Gartner, 451 Research, IDC, and Digital Enterprise Journal (DEJ). Leading media publications (CRN, Forbes, and ITOps Times) have also covered OpsRamp’s capabilities for cloud management, hybrid monitoring, and IT incident management.