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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.
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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.
Tips to lead software teams and manage up in a challenging market
We’ve all seen the news about tech layoffs. If you’re an engineering manager, are you having to squeeze more out of existing teams, because adding staff anytime soon is unlikely? Maybe you’re tempted to micromanage your developers, thinking that if you know every aspect of their work, it’ll boost productivity. But, that approach doesn’t feel right, and you know your devs would hate you for it. What’s an engineering manager to do?
Upgrade Graylog V4.3 to V5.0 On Ubuntu
Ethan Keaton is back to help you upgrade your Graylog V4.3 to V5. Also included is the upgrade of your OpenSearch V1.3 up to V2.5 with the.deb package.
Predictions: AI and Automation
Artificial Intelligence (AI) - or more specifically Machine Learning (ML) - and automation were big topics for many of our customers in 2022. Common reasons for the interest in AI and automation were to: increase efficiency, reduce manual processing, minimise human error and - especially for the use of ML - identify ‘unknown unknowns’.
Webinar: The 2023 ITOps forecast
Tech saw a lot of challenges in 2022. ITOps, NOC, and SRE teams grappled with shifts in staffing, a disappearance of those with tribal knowledge, a continuing transformation of consumer spending habits, and a general disruption of workplace culture. So what will 2023 look like for the industry? Likely, more volatility—but our panel of industry experts are here to help you navigate the choppy waters while also making some bold predictions. Change is the only constant in the tech sector.
What Is GraphQL? A Simplified Overview of Use and Benefits
The use of APIs is at the forefront of automation. There are many ways for developers and applications to make use of APIs, and GraphQL is one way to make the most of the data. As technologies continue to grow and evolve, especially with drivers like the DevOps methodology, it is important to keep on top of better and quicker ways to meet our business goals. This is one of the reasons I find GraphQL to be so exciting, and why everyone should understand it.
4 Azure Load Balancer Metrics to Monitor
An Azure Load Balancer is a Layer-4 (TCP, UDP) load balancer that provides high availability by distributing incoming traffic among healthy VMs. A load balancer health probe monitors a given port on each VM and only distributes traffic to an operational VM. Azure Load Balancers are frequently used in Azure Virtual Desktop (AVD) deployments. From our work with Azure Load Balancer, we think there are 4 key metrics and events you should proactively monitor and alert on.
Why Should You Care about SaaS Discovery and Management?
Overall, 59.77% of these customers said “All 3 of These Areas” are on the radar! Software as a Service (SaaS) has become a staple in the modern workplace. With the new last mile of the office network, businesses have had to adapt to a hybrid work-from-home model, making SaaS apps more critical than ever. In fact, Gartner predicts that the SaaS industry as a whole will see 16.8% growth in 2023.
Ten Automations to Make Your Network Agile and Efficient
Even in the most structured environments with clear operational strategies, complexity build-up in infrastructure and operations is unavoidable as businesses grow. To help these environments thrive in a consistent, reliable way, it’s vital to optimize the IT function: the backbone that supports every business application and ensures service excellence across all other functions. Automating operations is the only way for IT to scale and support today’s business demands.
The new Era of Monitoring as Code
Learn more about our new CLI and how it enables you to code, test and deploy your entire monitoring setup.
How To Get the Most Out of SMS Marketing
Here is a quick confession. One time I bought SMS contact lists. Don't DO It! You'd be surprised how easy it was to get more than 100k phone numbers for a tiny fee. Welcome to the murky side of SMS marketing. Have you ever received an SMS message and wondered "where the h*** did this person get my phone number?" Annoying, right? That's not SMS marketing. That's called SPAMMING. And we can all agree it's annoying to high heavens. As a business looking to generate leads, you won't get far with that kind of approach. That's not how a successful SMS campaign works.