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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Monitoring Healthtech Applications with Custom Metrics
Staying healthy is essential. Luckily, nowadays, tracking health and wellness is easier than ever. This article will discuss how monitoring allows developers to ensure that their health applications run smoothly so people can stay healthy.
How to Build Resilience Throughout Your SDLC Lessons from a Top 10 Bank
Are your applications as reliable as you planned? How do you know? The only way to ensure systems are resilient to common failure conditions is to test them, yet many large enterprises struggle with the effort and expense to do so. In this webinar, Anantha Movva, a former head of SRE and Performance Engineering at one of the top 10 North American banks, will share how he drove Chaos Engineering and resilience testing adoption throughout his organization.
Chaos Testing Explained
Chaos testing is a part of site reliability engineering (SRE). In chaos testing, we intentionally break things in and around a given application, in order to: The purpose of chaos testing is to assess how software systems respond to scenarios like network outages, hardware failures, database failures, and server or cluster node failures in the infrastructure.
Learning Moment: Effective Customer Communication During Incidents - Enhance Visibility & Response with Uptime.com
The recent global outage caused by an operating system update reminded me of how vulnerable we are today and most importantly, how close we are always teetering on global scale incidents with millions of interconnected dependencies. When the base of the house collapses, everything built on top is impacted. Those of us in IT Operations, Monitoring, Observability (insert the current acronym), etc., know firsthand this risk; we face it every day.
Introduction to Ingesting Logs into Loki with Fluentd and Fluent Bit | Zero to Hero: Loki | Grafana
Have you just discovered Grafana Loki and plan to use FluentD or Fluent Bit as your telemetry collector? Or are you trying to decide which agent is right for you? In this "Zero to Hero" episode, we cover the basics of FluentD and Fluent Bit, highlighting their differences and helping you determine when to use one over the other. Additionally, we guide you through configuring both agents' Loki plugins to write logs directly into Loki.
Integration Spotlight: PagerDuty and Robusta
Bring powerful AI troubleshooting and cause analysis to your incident response with Robusta's integration with PagerDuty. Join us to learn more from CEO Natan Yellin on how your team can improve your k8s reliability.
Cribl's Blueprint for Secure Software Development.
What does it take to build software for the most security-demanding customers worldwide? At Cribl, building secure products is integral to our engineering identity. We have established a secure software development lifecycle that is both culturally and policy-driven, integrating product security tooling and processes into every architecture review, pull request, and release, whether major or minor.
What are microservices, and how do they relate to DevOps architecture
Microservices are an architectural style that structures an application as a collection of small, loosely coupled, and independently deployable services. Each service in a microservices architecture focuses on a specific business function and communicates with other services through well-defined APIs, typically over HTTP/REST or messaging queues.
SaaS COGS: What To Consider In Your Cost Of Goods Sold
It can be challenging to translate complex engineering concepts to business leaders. If you frame things well, though, you can have more productive conversations that lead to greater alignment between engineering and the rest of the business. With that in mind, I’d like to share some of my recommendations for discussing cost with your leadership team — and hope it might help you have stronger cost conversations.
Netflix Architecture: How Much Does Netflix's AWS Cost?
In 2022, Netflix’s video streaming service had almost 231 million subscribers, up from 26 million in 2011. Revenues for the Los Gatos giant topped $31 billion in 2022 alone. Netflix also welcomed a startling 7.66 million paid subscribers in Q4, 2022, beating the 4.5 million subs expectations. On the earnings call, CFO Spenser Neumann said that the company wouldn’t be in the business if they didn’t believe it would return more than 10% of the revenue.