Monitoring backend signals has been standard practice for years, and tech companies have been alerting their SRE and software engineers when API endpoints are failing. But when you’re alerted about a backend issue, it’s often your end users who are directly affected. Shouldn’t we observe and alert on this user experience issues early on? As frontend monitoring is a newer practice, companies often struggle to identify signals that can help them pinpoint user frustrations or performance problems.

Learn how Checkly's new multistep checks help you to decrease incident response times with synthetic monitoring. Use multistep checks to chain and manage multiple API requests, run custom code for response validation, and get accurate alerts when incidents occur. This video explains how to create a multistep check to monitor a RESTful API from scratch. Do you have questions? Join our vibrant Checkly community on Slack and explore further!

Find out how AI can help IT reduce burnout and power better Everywhere Work in Ivanti’s latest report: ivanti.com/research. Without data, you are not going to have AI. But the key here is to have a data architecture that will enable AI, says Ivanti CIO Robert Grazioli. Citing Ivanti’s research report, Everywhere Work Report 2024, he covers why remote and hybrid work has increased the burden and responsibility on today’s IT teams, and why AI is seen by many as a solution to lessen IT stress and put the power back in the hands of the end user.