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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.
"Avoiding Catastrophic Outages" | DeveloperWeek 2023
In this talk, Andrew Zigler (Developer Advocate at Mattermost) discusses root causes of catastrophic outage, and approaches to prevention using open source technologies you can deploy in less than a day. He'll talk through real-life case studies from manufacturing plants to global media companies to the world's largest banks and other mission-critical technical teams.
5 Predictions for the Future of Remote IT Support
Remote IT support has become one of the most effective solutions in the globalization age. Setting aside the obvious practical reasons – different time zones, smaller wages in the developing countries, faster response time, and so on – we may say that it was an inevitable change. The new generation cares more about their wellbeing and comfort.
How Database Observability Increases Operational Reliability
Early on in my career as a DBA, I began to realize I wasn’t a Database Administrator as much as the Default Blame Acceptor for nearly any application problem. Let’s face it—the first thing blamed when there’s an issue is typically going to be the database, and it’s a “guilty until proven otherwise” situation.
CFEngine: The agent is in 22 - Hackathon: Termux services on Android
"CFEngine: The Agent Is In" is our monthly webinar series, where we show new features, teach best practices, and keep the community informed about everything CFEngine.
How to Troubleshoot Packet Loss
If you're experiencing network issues, such as slow Internet speeds, poor audio or video quality, or dropped connections, packet loss could be the culprit. Packet loss is a common network issue that affects networks of all sizes, and its impact on users and businesses can be very frustrating if it’s not dealt with quickly. So we’re teaching you how to identify and troubleshoot packet loss, and causes of packet loss, in your network!
Sentry's Frontend Tests: Migrating from Enzyme to React Testing Library
At Sentry, we practice continuous delivery, which means that code can be released as soon as it’s merged into the main branch. This allows us to iterate quickly on our product, making new features, bug fixes, configuration changes, and experiments available in production as frequently as possible. We merge over 700 pull requests a month.
Practical Introduction to Prometheus Monitoring in 2023
Prometheus is a powerful open-source monitoring system that can collect metrics from various sources and store them in a time-series database. It is widely used in the industry to monitor and alert the health of applications, servers, and other infrastructure components. In this article, we will provide a practical introduction to Prometheus monitoring and cover the essential concepts and features that you need to know to get started.
Canonical Edge Demo - AWS Deployment
Microk8s cluster deployment on AWS via CAPI In this demo, we will be deploying a microk8s cluster on AWS. The cluster consists of 3 control plane and 3 worker nodes. The deployment is performed using Cluster API (CAPI). For the full demo, join us at MWC Barcelona 2023 where you'll be able to see Spectro Cloud's Palette automation engine deploying and managing Canonical's MicroK8s Kubernetes distribution on Ubuntu OS with real-time kernel. Witness the capabilities to create, scale, upgrade, and destroy Kubernetes clusters, with demonstrations on AWS and Edge use cases.
How to untangle monitoring noise and leverage observability best practices
Most organizations suffer from some form of alert noise, shares Adam Blau, senior director of product marketing at BigPanda. “Alert noise is only going to increase as organizations support cloud-native applications spanning multiple public and private clouds, including ephemeral deployments and more. It’s not going to get easier for organizations to understand the signal from all those alerts being sent,” Blau said.
Bracing for Impact: Why a Robust Observability Pipeline is Critical for Security Professionals in 2023
2023 is well underway and now more than ever it’s important to stay ahead of data trends and security concerns that are ever mounting. With the cost of catastrophic cyber attacks estimated to be ten times that of all other disasters combined, businesses need to take proactive measures to implement a security data pipeline to protect their data and comply with security and retention requirements.