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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.
Two data-backed ways to resolve incidents faster
Incidents are expensive — and only getting more so. In fact, more than 98% of large companies and 47% of small- and medium-size companies say a single hour of downtime costs at least $100,000, according to the 11th annual Hourly Cost of Downtime Survey.
The truth behind "Application Modernization"
Are you currently considering refactoring, replatforming, or rearchitecting an application? Well congratulations because that most likely means that you’ve chosen to embark on the path to application modernization after discovering the four key benefits which the Cloud can provide.
A Guide to OpenTelemetry for .NET Engineers
Hey.NET engineers! Today, we’ll explore the world of OpenTelemetry, focusing on how it can benefit your.NET applications. We’ll talk about the strengths and weaknesses of OpenTelemetry, walk you through the setup process, discuss the basics, and share some best practices. Plus, we’ll touch on topics like auto-instrumentation, metrics, and more. So, let’s dive in!
Achieving Great Dynamic Sampling with Refinery
Refinery, Honeycomb’s tail-based dynamic sampling proxy, often makes sampling feel like magic. This applies especially to dynamic sampling, because it ensures that interesting and unique traffic is kept, while tossing out nearly-identical “boring” traffic. But like any sufficiently advanced technology, it can feel a bit counterintuitive to wield correctly, at first. On Honeycomb’s Customer Architect team, we’re often asked to assist customers with their Refinery clusters.
Automated Employee Onboarding: The Gamechanger for New Hires and IT Teams
Too many IT tickets, not enough time. That’s just one problem that comes with a poor employee onboarding experience, and it’s one that causes deal-breaking difficulties for new employees, and just as importantly, IT leaders in the IT service management (ITSM) department. Ninety-three percent of employers said that a good onboarding experience is critical for retention of new employees, according to market share data from Finances Online. The total cost of voluntary turnover in 2020?
Any decent DORA metrics tool should do this
Data from DORA metrics isn't enough to help software engineering teams. Any decent DORA metrics tracker should go beyond just giving you data. It should also help you improve on that data by suggesting what to improve. Does your tool do this?
This is the key to doing more with less
How can you get your software engineering team to do more with less? Empower your developers to make changes. Reviewing work that's in progress, before it's deployed, is one of the best ways to do this. You'll identify risks before they negatively impact your metrics.
Reduce MTTR and Take Automation to a New Level with PagerDuty Global Event Orchestration
PagerDuty’s Global Event Orchestration is now generally available. Global Event Orchestration’s powerful decision engine enriches events, controls their routing, and triggers self-healing actions based on event data. Teams can use this functionality across any or all services within PagerDuty. This feature is a continued investment in Event Orchestration, demonstrating PagerDuty’s commitment to providing customers with best-in-class automation capabilities.
A new approach to performance: How Tilled keeps their endpoints fast and their developers sane
While timeouts and slow page loads are frustrating for users and can go unnoticed by developers, Tilled can’t afford either. As a PayFac-as-a-Service provider, fast API endpoints mean the difference between a successful business and one that flops due to dropped payments. Join us to see how the team at Tilled takes the complexity out of performance monitoring, so they can fix slowdowns faster without researching span trees or deciphering dashboards - saving developers time (and their sanity).
Beyond 6: What's Next for Wi-Fi?
Somewhere lost in the noise of ‘faster’ and ‘better’ marketing messaging around Wi-Fi in the last few years, there were also some genuine transformations in what Wi-Fi is capable of. And what’s on the horizon maybe some of the most significant improvements since the inception of Wi-Fi itself. Let’s look at where Wi-Fi is at, what big changes have happened, and where we’re going next in the land of Wi-Fi technology.