Companies today can’t afford to have an application succumb to a spike in traffic or fail due to an overload of user requests. Two of the key benefits of cloud computing today are elasticity and scalability, both of which help ensure an application’s optimal performance.

This functionality was frequently requested by our users and now we finally have it - automated synthetic monitoring using real browser! It allows you to periodically simulate user interaction with you web application by entering form fields, submitting forms, clicking links and buttons, etc. For list of currently available browser commands please visit our "Quick reference" section.

Believe it or not, there is a difference between incident closure and incident resolution. Incident closure ensures a problem has been addressed. Comparatively, incident resolution goes a step further by ensuring an incident is closed and all stakeholders are satisfied with the end results and agree with the incident closure.

We here at Uptime.com strive to be on the cutting edge of downtime monitoring across the web. While our tool provides valuable insights into a website’s speed and global uptime, this month the focus was on big brands with huge customer bases. Every outage seemed to affect millions of customers in the US or across the globe.

Network Monitoring is essential for every network administrator. It determines how effective your IT team is at solving problems or even completely eliminating them. Even small organizations need visibility of what is happening within their network environment. This includes the ability to know what is happening with their servers, network infrastructure and the traffic that flows across the network and all connected network devices.

Netmon’s complete Network Monitoring Solution can also be used as a centralized SYSLOG and Windows Event Log Server where you can quickly look through many Servers, Workstations or other Network devices’ SYSLOG and Event Log information without having to log into each individual device to see the same information.

DevOps is no longer just about breaking the silo between developers and operations. That’s why every manual operation in your delivery pipeline needs to be evaluated to determine if it can be automated. Database changes are indeed a tedious process and therefore deserve to be considered in your DevOps implementation.

Uptime’s transaction checks can continually monitor important functionality of your site. Specific steps within a Transaction Check can monitor nearly anything you have a test case for. So, this check is as good as the steps you configure for it. You can think of it as the first response or notification that a portion of critical infrastructure is down.

Centralized log management lets you decide who can access log data without actually having access to the servers. You can also correlate data from different sources, such as the operating system, your applications, and the firewall. Another benefit is that user do not need to log in to hundreds of devices to find out what is happening. You can also use data normalization and enhancement rules to create value for people who might not be familiar with a specific log type.

If you need to replicate a user error, you’ll know how difficult it can be to pinpoint the cause. Usually, you’d look at the stack trace or ask the user themselves. However, that’s a lot of guesswork, especially if the stack trace is obfuscated. We’ll show you how to replicate the error faster using Crash Reporting’s Breadcrumbs and the Real User Monitoring Sessions feature.