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Checkly Kick-Start: Writing your first site monitor

Jul 23, 2024 By Checkly In Checkly
Join Nočnica Mellifera for the Checkly Kick-start. You'll learn: How to get started and write your first page monitors — Anyone can monitor their site with Checkly, and you'll get a demonstration on getting started. Best Practices for monitoring — From monitoring as code workflows to alert configurations based on your SLA, learn how experienced professionals use synthetic monitoring. Advanced skills for automation — Ever wanted to check your site by comparing screenshots? Or create checks that simulate network slowdown? Learn how to simulate complex scenarios with Checkly and Playwright.
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rapidspike

RapidSpike Awarded Innovate UK Smart Grant for AI Website Monitoring Platform

Jul 23, 2024 By Georgina Grant-Muller In RapidSpike
RapidSpike, an industry leader in Synthetic User Journey website monitoring, is proud to announce that it has been awarded the highly esteemed Innovate UK Smart grant. Innovate UK, part of UK Research and Innovation, has allocated up to £25 million to support groundbreaking innovations with exceptional potential for commercial success. RapidSpike’s plans for its AI website monitoring platform has been recognised as a responsible and standout project in this regard.
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honeycomb

Destroy on Friday: The Big Day A Chaos Engineering Experiment - Part 2

Jul 23, 2024 By Lex Neva In Honeycomb
In my last blog post, I explained why we decided to destroy one third of our infrastructure in production just to see what would happen. This is part two, where I go over the big day. How did our chaos engineering experiment go? Find out below!
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uptime

Using Private Locations with PhotonOS 5.0

Jul 23, 2024 By Lucas Lalonde In uptime
Uptime.com’s Private Location monitoring tools offer a powerful solution for keeping an eye on internal endpoints. Though these services and their importance aren’t visible to the public, internal teams and customers may still rely heavily on internal services in their day-to-day functions and downtime can disrupt operations just as much as public-facing incidents.
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anodot

All About the Benefits of Azure Hybrid Benefits - A Complete Beneficial Guide

Jul 23, 2024 By Perry Tapiero In Anodot
If your company is a big Azure spender, you should use Azure Hybrid Benefit. If not, you’re leaving money on the table. But how much money? If eligible, your company can save up to 40% on Azure Virtual Machines, up to 55% on Azure SQL databases, and, if you combine that with Azure Reserved Instances, you can even save up to 80%. Source: Azure Azure Hybrid Benefit is the perfect way to cut costs while migrating to the cloud.
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anodot

The Wait is Over. FOCUS 1.0 is Here, and Anodot is Here for it

Jul 23, 2024 By Elisha Ben-Zvi In Anodot
The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification (FOCUS) 1.0 was officially launched on June 20, 2024, marking a revolutionary shift in Cloud Cost Management (CCM). Long awaited by MSPs and FinOps, this framework now aligns data sharing among vendors, FinOps tools, and users in a simple manner. It’s an exciting new era for shaking up business strategies in cloud cost analysis. But let’s take a step back and refocus on what FOCUS 1.0 is.
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ScienceLogic

Empowering Business Service Management: How Organizations Can Align IT with Business Objectives

Jul 23, 2024 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
In the past, IT was viewed primarily as a facilitator for business operations, overseeing systems, software, and applications essential to technology-driven enterprises. However, a new strategic approach has emerged that has transformed how organizations manage their IT services.
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grafana

How to set up Grafana Mimir using Ansible

Jul 23, 2024 By Gerard van Engelen In Grafana
Gerard van Engelen is a seasoned DevOps engineer who ensures the quality of products by drawing parallels between complex issues and simpler, everyday scenarios. This approach helps in delivering value, ensuring that products are not only built correctly but also offer the right functionalities. Ansible is popular with system administrators and DevOps professionals who use it for automating IT tasks such as configuration management, application deployment, and orchestration.
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coralogix

Introducing Mobile Real User Monitoring (RUM)

Jul 23, 2024 By Emma Lampert In Coralogix
Human attention spans are seemingly shorter than ever, and your mobile application users are, unfortunately, no exception. Over 70% of users abandon an app if it’s taking too long, with half of these users waiting no more than three seconds. Even minor delays or errors can lead to significant user drop-off, negatively impacting your app’s success and user satisfaction.
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influxdata

Predictive Analytics Pipelines: Real-World AI, Predictive Maintenance, and Time Series Data

Jul 23, 2024 By Jason Myers In InfluxData
There’s so much talk about AI these days that it seems we quickly forget that AI isn’t a single type of technology. It’s a category, almost an umbrella term for a wide range of different technologies, applications, and approaches. The terms “Generative AI” and “Machine Learning AI” (often referred to as “Real-World AI”) describe two different branches that fall under the broader AI heading.
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