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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
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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.
Deploying a Containerized App in Google GKE
Because of its popularity and widespread adoption, Kubernetes has become the industry’s de facto for deploying a containerized app. Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) is Google Cloud Products’ (GCP) managed Kubernetes service. It provides out-of-the-box features such as auto-scaling nodes, high-availability clusters, and automatic upgrades of masters and nodes. In addition, it offers the most convenient cluster setup workflow and the best overall developer experience.
SIGNL4 Zabbix: Mobile App, alerting via push, SMS and call
How to alert with SIGNL4 via push, SMS and call from Zabbix. Including status updates with 2-way integration. Mobile app for Zabbix.
JFrog Artifactory on Your Choice of Cloud Provider
Artifactory supports Kubernetes, the de facto orchestration tool in the industry, for automating deployment, scaling, and management of microservices and containerized applications.
How to Use Monitoring Tools to Improve Root Cause Analysis
As an IT manager you would have often heard from your line manager or user ask “Let’s drill down to find the root cause.”? As dreaded a question as it may seem, it is really the most important answer to understand IT outages. IT infrastructure availability is highly dependent on isolating problems, so the deciding variable in a problem can be fixed without putting the entire system at a halt. This is where RCA can be of tremendous help.
Better Python Decorators with Wrapt
Our instrumentation uses built-in extension mechanisms where possible, such as Django’s database instrumentation. But often libraries have no such mechanisms, so we resort to wrapping third party libraries’ functions with our own decorators. For example, we instrument jinja2 ’s Template.render() function with a decorator to measure template rendering time. We value the correctness of our instrumentation a lot so that we do not affect our users’ applications.
Introduction to Site Reliability Automation, Enabled by AIOps from Broadcom
To support digital transformation, organizations are increasingly looking to site reliability engineering, or SRE, approaches to managing complex infrastructures and handling the pace of change induced by DevOps. When issues occur, it’s important to have an integrated toolset that can determine the root cause and apply remediation. In addition, the solution should understand the results of the remediation action, increasing the confidence level in applying the right actions to other similar issues. All of this results in site reliability automation - enhancing infrastructure monitoring with intelligent recommendations and auto-remediation capabilities to help SREs create more resilient production environments. To learn more, go to broadcom.com/aiops
What is a Network Audit and How can Uptime.com Help?
Scaling sort of sneaks up on you, doesn’t it? One day, you’re carefree, the next you start to notice something is off… Maybe it’s the crashing, or the frequent dips in performance. Could it be the new hire? It’s not DNS. Is it DNS? Scaling is a natural part of the business process, and your infrastructure will start to change completely as your userbase doubles and triples.
VirtualMetric Enhanced Dashboard, New Features & Upcoming Roadmap - Eliminate toughest IT challenges
VirtualMetric presents the latest features to facilitate your infrastructure management and overcome the toughest IT challenges in keeping your infrastructure healthy. In this webinar, you will discover VirtualMetric's new features, improved dashboards, and new functionalities.
#ITConnections - Organizing Data from SCOM into Actionable Reports that Add Business Value
SCOM Reporting is often neglected due to lack of time, knowledge or awareness. SCOM is a feature-rich system, and navigating through these details to produce meaningful reports can be discouraging at times, especially when reports turn out empty. With many stakeholders in the company requesting frequent reports, to know basic metrics about the servers for capacity management, SCOM reporting is not something that can be ignored. Get the most actionable data out of your SCOM reporting with these best practices.
10 Key Performance Indicators to Consider When Monitoring Server Performance
IT applications are vital for today’s digital economy and for the business to succeed, these applications must be highly available and performing well. Application performance degradations can occur for several reasons. There may be code-level issues, database slowness, or network bandwidth constraints. IT applications run on servers and if the server is not sized correctly or is under-performing, application performance will degrade as well.