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DevOps and monitoring: the perfect pair when they work together

Organizations throughout the globe have been working for years trying to find more efficient ways to remove the barriers hindering the speed at which computing services and applications are rolled out to market. These barriers often present challenges for how DevOps and monitoring work together. Between the requirements-and-design phase, to planning and development, to testing, software projects can take between 4 to 9 months to complete depending on their size and complexity.

New Full Page Check upgrades support end user demand for richer features

Software upgrades are typically about offering new upgrades and improvements that enhance the end user experience, offer greater efficiency, and provide a more feature-rich product. These are also some of the reasons why Uptrends has released a new version of the Full Page Check monitor, which offers lots of benefits over the previous version. The demand for more metrics has grown over time not only for how the elements load but also how the page is presented to the end users.

Webinar: Good monitoring in action - a real life example with allpay

One of the greatest responsibilities of managing your website and IT estate is to stay on top of your uptime, applications and performance metrics. After all, visitors today expect websites to load within a few seconds and provide a seamless experience 24/7. Having an effective monitoring strategy and the right tools in place is essential if you want to retain your customer base and protect your revenue.

Top 4 pitfalls causing poor monitoring in an IT estate

As we speak, there are likely thousands of organizations running some type of monitoring solution out there, each within unique operational structures, but the difference between those that that are successful and those that are not can be attributed to 4 root causes. Not surprisingly, these 4 root causes apply to any toolset or technology used. That’s largely due to the likelihood that the best tools in the world used poorly will deliver poor results.

Ecommerce monitoring strategy for Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2021

It’s nearly here. The annual mad rush at the wee hours of the morning. The stampede into retail stores to claim really deep discounts on the latest toys, electronics, and gadgets makes headline news every year. It begins the day after Thanksgiving and is usually two of the biggest shopping days of the year. Yes, we’re talking about Black Friday and Cyber Monday.

Optimize your end user experience with a synthetic monitoring strategy

The digitalization of the end user experience is leading to increasingly rapid changes for both customers and business owners alike. Customers demand and depend on fast, reliable web services whether for informational purposes or to conduct e-commerce transactions. That’s why regardless of the device that is used, slow digital experiences aren’t easily forgiven. If they happen often enough, they will reflect poorly on your brand and will eventually impact your bottom line.

Facebook outage highlights need for DNS monitoring

If you were one of billions of frustrated users of Facebook who weren’t able to access their accounts Monday, rest assured in knowing that downtime is a thing of the distant past and the mega-social media platform is back online. End users can now relax knowing that the brush fire has been extinguished. Remarkably, the nearly seven-hour outage could not be attributed to the deluge of recent high-profile attacks on government, enterprise, and educational servers throughout the world.

OP5's network monitoring as an alternative to SolarWinds' Orion

An infamous cyberattack in late 2020 made SolarWinds a household name in the tech industry after it was discovered to be at the center of a supply-chain attack on its Orion network management tool. That attack allowed state-sponsored actors to push a malicious update to nearly 18,000 customers, including U.S. government agencies and about 100 large private enterprises.

5 reasons why your startup needs website monitoring

Despite the ongoing pandemic, 2020 was still a record year for venture capital investments into American startups, which amounted to $156.2 billion, according to a recent PitchBook report. Being an astute entrepreneur, you’ve likely thought of everything to enable your startup business to hit the ground running — branding, product logos, hiring staff, equipment purchases, and structuring your business roadmap. You are ready to take the marketplace by storm — or so you think.

Is your CDN provider delivering the best value?

In case you haven’t noticed, video marketing is on fire right now with compelling statistics around this trend hard to ignore. And for good reason — everyone from large enterprises and educational institutions to community groups and entrepreneurs are incorporating richer content into their websites, such as images and videos. Hence, the importance of choosing a high-quality content delivery network (CDN) provider.