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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.
Grafana Pyroscope: Call Tree, Heat Map, & Adaptive Profiles (August 2026 Community Call)
We will look at some new features: Call Tree, Heat Map, & Adaptive Profiles Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel. Join us live for an introduction to flame graphs. We’ll cover what they are, how to read them, and how to use them to find performance bottlenecks in your applications. Bring your questions! Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.
Where AI Media Actually Slows Teams Down - And It Isn't Generation
The constraint on AI-generated video and imagery inside most organisations is no longer the model. It is the review loop, the consistency of a set, and a cost model nobody agreed on in advance - and none of those three get solved by switching to a better generator. In short: budget for iteration rather than render time; build a reference library before the first deliverable; define what a project's generation allowance is up front; and evaluate models on how they respond to a single prompt edit rather than on peak output quality.
5 Best CAFM and Facilities Management Software Providers in 2026
Managing facilities across multiple businesses, sites, assets, and contractors can quickly become a full-time administrative job. That's where Computer-Aided Facilities Management (CAFM) software comes in. It gives teams a central place to manage reactive maintenance, planned preventative maintenance (PPM), assets, contractors, compliance, and more.
Do Growing Tech Teams Need a Virtual CISO?
Scaling a modern software startup often demands massive focus on feature delivery and market expansion. Technical teams push updates fast, so internal defense often drops down the priority list. Founders handle operational risk on their own until compliance demands appear during client negotiations. Bringing in experienced guidance helps prevent operational downtime before major security issues surface.
Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure: Scaling AI on your own data
For many on-prem organizations, moving to the cloud still raises hard questions around control, compliance, and data security. In this webinar, Elastic and Microsoft will explore how IT leaders can modernize with greater confidence by combining the flexibility of cloud with a more integrated, secure, and operationally simple experience.
Elastic: Cloud without compromise: Sovereign, secure, and simple with Elastic Cloud Serverless on Microsoft Azure
For many on-prem organizations, moving to the cloud still raises hard questions around control, compliance, and data security. In this webinar, Elastic and Microsoft will explore how IT leaders can modernize with greater confidence by combining the flexibility of cloud with a more integrated, secure, and operationally simple experience.
Top tips: Small digital habits that save you hours every week
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're looking at something we rarely think about until the end of the day: the tiny digital habits that quietly eat away at our time. Have you finished a workday feeling busy but strangely unaccomplished? You started with the best intentions.
Separate Application Latency From Network Failure With Hubble
The request timed out after five seconds. The application said context deadline exceeded. The dependency was healthy, its dashboards were green, and its own latency histogram showed nothing above 30 milliseconds.
Synthetic Monitoring Is Broken. Your Production Traffic Can Fix It.
Synthetic monitoring has been a critical part of application reliability for years. It gives engineering and operations teams a way to proactively test applications, APIs, and critical customer journeys before users encounter problems. But there is a fundamental limitation with the traditional approach: Someone has to create the tests. As applications become more distributed and customer journeys become more complex, organizations can end up maintaining hundreds or even thousands of synthetic scripts.
Cavalry or cattle? Let the machine decide
Long before dashboards and decibel-loud alerts, there were watchtowers. Every kingdom worth its salt had them, men perched on hills, lighting fires to signal the moment they spotted something suspicious on the horizon. It was, in its time, a fine system. The trouble was that watchmen, being human, occasionally mistook a herd of cattle for an invading army, or a dust storm for smoke, and lit their fires anyway.