In case you haven’t heard, Uptrends has a new, exciting free tool, CDN Performance Check. The new tool makes checking on your CDN performance super easy. Plug in a URL for your site or one of your static resources and watch as Uptrends times the connection and download from over 40 worldwide locations. It’s one quick test, but you get so much CDN performance information back. All you need is your site’s URL or the URL for one of your static page elements served up by a CDN.

If you’re a developer, you know all about APIs. However, if you’re in a non-technical role, you may not have the information you need to make educated decisions about the APIs your company offers and uses. In this article, we will take you through the API basics: what they are, how they work, why they’re important, and what you can do to protect your business’s reliance on API performance and uptime.

When a new browser version becomes available, user adoption is fast. As we saw in an earlier post, due to the automatic update/release processes used by providers, most (nearly 100%) users have the latest and greatest within about four weeks of the new browser version’s release. As the browser versions evolve, it is important that your synthetic website monitoring keeps pace with the user-adoption rates.

Imagine that your API response includes data that you would like to track and get regular reports on, and you may even want to generate alerts when values hit certain thresholds. You’re already monitoring for API performance and function, but how about grabbing the other data at the same time. Wouldn’t it be nice to capture the data, evaluate it, and store it in your Uptrends account? You can with Uptrends’ newest Multi-Step API feature, Custom Metrics.

Happy 2020! Uptrends is looking forward to the new year, and we have lots of great things planned. We expect 2020 to be as exciting as 2019 with all kinds of new features and functionality. In this article, we take a look at all of the new functionality and features added in 2019 that are available to you now.

Data protection is an essential part of the Uptrends process. When it comes time to remove your data from our retired hard drives and servers, we do it right. We go to great lengths to make sure your data is never accessible to hackers or anyone else for that matter by turning it into a pile of confetti. We stand closely by and watch while our old hardware gets ground into little bitty bits.

Uptrends has been revising and testing its new Web Application Monitoring for more than a year now to bring you the tool you deserve. Self-Service Transactions are available right now to all of our Business and Enterprise users! With Self-Service Transactions you have the power to take your Web Application Monitoring to the next level.