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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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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.
Write to S3 and call other Lambdas with Python
Many people writing about AWS Lambda view Node as the code-default. I’ve been guilty of this in my own articles, but it’s important to remember that Python is a ‘first-class citizen’ within AWS and is a great option for writing readable Lambda code. Take a look at these two starter examples of writing functionality in Python.
Performance optimization sins. Aliaksandr Valialkin, VictoriaMetrics.
In the pursuit of performance, it is often necessary to move to the "dark side", sacrificing the quality of the code and the clarity of the API. This report will reveal some of these sins on examples from my practice.
AWS Lambda Timeout Best Practices
An ever increasing number of developers and architects are using AWS Lambda to deploy serverless functions to control costs and reduce the burden of server management. Due to the unpredictable nature of end-user demand in today’s digital-first world, Lambda functions can help resolve unplanned scaling issues.
The Danger of Unused AWS Regions
AWS has 21 (and counting!) geographic regions. If you never use one or more of those regions, detecting activity in those regions is critical for your cloud security posture.
Datadog: Modern Monitoring and Observability with Thoughtful Chaos Experiments
In our upcoming webinar, we will explore how teams have improved their ability to respond to incidents through implementing monitoring best practices and have proactively prevented issues by embracing the discipline of chaos engineering.
Elastic: Kibana best practices for visualizing time series data
At first glance, the Time Series Visual Builder (TSVB) in Kibana appears to be a collection of visualizations that you can build more easily elsewhere. Gauges, tables, and markdowns are all available as separate visualizations. But the TSVB is much more powerful than these visualizations alone because it allows you to combine an infinite number of aggregations and pipeline aggregations to display complex data in a meaningful way.
Configuring an effective service management process
This video helps administrators understand the key admin configurations needed to set up an effective service management process in ServiceDesk Plus.
Configuring an effective incident management process
This video helps administrators understand the key admin configurations required to set up an effective incident management process in ServiceDesk Plus.
Five worthy reads: Fend off cyberattacks using dark web intelligence
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we discuss how organizations can use the dark web to build a treasure trove of actionable intelligence to prevent attacks.
Viewing LogicMonitor Reports Within Dashboards
As a Sales Engineer, I hear interesting product requests on a daily basis, and integrating LogicMonitor reports with LogicMonitor dashboards comes up frequently. LogicMonitor's reporting engine has many useful functions from capacity planning to SLA calculation, and dashboards help users visually digest the raw data of reports.