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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.
Jaeger Tracing: A Friendly Guide for Beginners
Written by @thetomzach @ Aspecto. In this guide, you’ll learn what Jaeger tracing is, what distributed tracing is, and how to set it up in your system. We’ll go over Jaeger’s UI and touch on advanced concepts such as sampling and deploying in production. You’ll leave this guide knowing how to create spans with OpenTelemetry and send them to Jaeger tracing for visualization. All that, from scratch.
37 minutes to deploy a fullstack app on my new AWS account
Today, I was working on our Terraform Provider, and I noticed that I never tried to deploy an application from scratch on a new and clean AWS account. Meaning, an empty AWS account - with 0 resources created. No VPC, no EC2, no Load Balancer, nothing... just an IAM user to get access to my AWS account programmatically. This post explains what I did and how it took 37 minutes and 33 seconds to literally: 😅 Let's explain all of that!
Load test WordPress + nginx on Kubernetes
Why this combination you ask? Load testing is my passion, and I am partial to Kubernetes. I challenged myself to share a use case that many could relate to, focused on a business critical application. Websites came to mind and WordPress is the world’s most popular website management system. Of course, nginx is the most popular web server so let’s throw that into the mix. And Kubernetes? With more than 50% of corporations adopting Kubernetes in 2021, what better system to run in.
The Growing Importance of Cloud Technology in the Healthcare Industry
The healthcare industry is under pressure more than ever before to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve patient care. Cloud technology is proving to be a valuable tool in meeting all of these challenges. In this article, we'll explore the many ways in which it's helping to revolutionize the healthcare industry.
Wind River Studio Supports Intel SoCs for Real-Time and AI-Driven Intelligent Systems for Aerospace and Defense Edge Applications
Wind River today announced support for new Intel Xeon D processors. Part of a multiyear effort to optimize Wind River Studio for Intel IoT system-on-chip (SoC) offerings, the combined technologies address the challenges of enabling greater compute in the space- and power-constrained rugged environments of verticals such as aerospace and defense, in order to meet the demands of edge applications.
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Is Remote Working a Cybersecurity Risk?
The Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on employment. Perhaps one of the most important was the rise in remote working. Some workers chose to work remotely to protect themselves - others were asked to as a part of a plan from their company to help limit the spread of the virus among members of staff.
The Best AWS Elastic Beanstalk Alternatives for 2022
AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an AWS-managed service. It is used by startups, small & mid-sized businesses for web application development. As it comes pre-configured with EC2 server and is efficient at using automatic provisioning of services and resources, handling application code and environment configurations seems easier with this PaaS solution. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a go-to option for various startups, small & mid-sized businesses.
Best alternative to CloudWatch: Cost-Effective, Simple, Complete AWS Monitoring
Trace root cause of performance issues with AWS Application monitoring. Get flexible deployment models for hybrid infrastructure eG Enterprise supports all the major technologies you use for infrastructure, digital workspaces and applications with AWS Monitoring It's a single-pane-of-glass that monitors your entire IT deployment, understands all your interdependencies and gets you to the root cause of performance problems faster.
The case for managed databases
Should I get my database managed? Read and find out the real costs and benefits of self-hosted vs managed databases, and ask yourself five hard questions.
The Role of Service Desk in Digital Transformation
Almost every organization is moving towards or planning to move towards digital transformation and IT is a significant part of it. The pandemic has made digital transformation a necessity to achieve maximum customer and employee engagement and satisfaction, bridge cultural and talent gaps, and promote IT as a valuable business process.