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Feature Spotlight: API Checks

API checks are as simple or complex as you need them to be, offering a great deal of functionality in checking the uptime of your own tools. Combined with a powerful programming interface like REST API, your checks can prove quite useful. These checks are multi-step, meaning you can ask it to do almost anything so long as you present those requests in a syntax your server understands. The key to an API check is formatting your requests properly.

How we got a 100% Lighthouse performance score for our Vue.js app

Since launch, we didn’t pay too much attention to the front end performance of the main Checkly web app. Shame on us. What better reason to dive into this than the publishing of the excellent The Cost of Javascript in 2018 by Google’s Addy Osmani? TL;DR: it took about half a day to go from an abysmal 34 to a 100 Lighthouse score on our Vue.js app.

Trust Sentry on NuGet: Package Prefix Reservation

As a pillar of the .NET ecosystem, NuGet specifies how .NET packages are created, hosted, and consumed, while also providing the necessary tools to achieve these functions. Despite being relatively new (launched in 2010), all project templates from Microsoft’s Visual Studio have included packages that required NuGet.org for several years.

5 Server Monitoring Tools you should check out

You work on your software’s performance. But let’s face it: production is where the rubber meets the road. If your application is slow or it fails, then nothing else matters. Are you monitoring your applications in production? Do you see errors and performance problems as they happen? Or do you only see them after users complain? Worse yet, do you never hear about them? What tools do you have in place for tracking performance issues? Can you follow them back to their source?

Introducing Uptime.com's New UI

We want to begin this post by thanking our long-time Uptime.com members for bearing with us through the transition to our new user interface. You have no doubt noticed the changes. The adjustments to the UI are small, but some important features are now in a different place. Our intent was a more intuitive design. Today, we’ll walk you through some of our most important decisions in this post. First, we’ll document some changes to be aware of.