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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.
5 Trends Transforming Digital and IT Operations Management
In 2018, digital transformation ushered in a radical shift in how enterprises harness customer insights, technology capabilities, and rapid experimentation to drive revenue growth, profitability, and market leadership. Enterprises spent $1.3 trillion in 2018 on digital transformation technologies like public cloud platforms, microservices and containers, edge computing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence to improve customer experiences, business agility, and employee engagement.
Logging Levels 101
If you’re a software developer, then you understand how vital application logging is in software development and a critical part of logging is something called logging levels. Log entries generally contain essential information—such as a timestamp, a message, and sometimes additional stuff like an exception’s stack trace. Those pieces of information are useful because they allow someone reading the log entry to understand how the application behaved in production.
Private beta released
The brand new Monitive platform is almost ready to be seen by the world, but just like any software development project, minor issues always surface that tend to push a release date back further and further. There’s always copy to be adjusted, links to be added, an icon that would improve clarity. Maybe a box is missing or the color of a button needs to change.
eG Innovations: Add Zero-Cost, Proactive Monitoring to Your Citrix Services with the eG Enterprise Express Citrix Logon Simulator
Performance is central to any Citrix project, whether it's a new deployment, upgrading from XenApp 6.5 to XenApp 7.x, or scaling and optimization. Rather than simply focusing on system resource usage metrics (CPU, memory, disk usage, etc.), Citrix administrators need to monitor all aspects of user experience. And, Citrix logon performance is the most important of them all.
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Real User Monitoring best practices
Customer experience is becoming a key differentiator between competitors. Actually, it already is! If your website is performing poorly, it's hurting your business. The first step towards improving this performance is using a real user monitoring tool to identify problems and monitor your progress towards improvement.
Man-in-the-middle attacks on the rise. Monitor your DNS
For our tech-minded readers, we strongly recommend you read the suggested articles in the US-CERT notification for detailed examples of how the hijacking takes place, for the rest of you, we’ve put together a summary of how the multifaceted attacks work.
Creating a Project Post Mortem | The Why's and How's of Finishing Projects
A project post mortem is a lethal-sounding term that seeks to answer the question: did this project work? Was it worth the investment and the time, and if it wasn’t can you learn from it? As the term implies, the project must be “no more” or “ceased to be” or “bereft of life.” Creating this document requires a time investment, and it’s tempting to just move onto the next project.
Web Performance Monitor - Monitoring the End-User Experience
Web application uptime is a must-have in your organization. Whether your applications are accessed inside or outside the firewall, your business depends on them being up, available, and performing optimally. Watch this short video and learn how Web Performance Monitor allows you to constantly monitor availability and response time from one location or locations around the globe. Find problems before your users do!
Raygun's favorite features of 2018
In 2018, we launched many improvements to the Raygun Platform, including the biggest ever addition to Raygun: Application Performance Monitoring (APM). For this article, we wanted to surface our favorite releases from 2018, just in case you missed them.
Kafka Logging with the ELK Stack
Kafka and the ELK Stack — usually these two are part of the same architectural solution, Kafka acting as a buffer in front of Logstash to ensure resiliency. This article explores a different combination — using the ELK Stack to collect and analyze Kafka logs. As explained in a previous post, Kafka plays a key role in our architecture. As such, we’ve constructed a monitoring system to ensure data is flowing through the pipelines as expected.