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Avert a Website Meltdown With These Awesome Features

Our primary focus at Uptime.com is creating a tool that can monitor every critical piece of infrastructure that drives the work you do. We created a series of checks to accomplish this task, with API and Transaction checks offering unprecedented flexibility. The next step was a mechanism for controlling how alerts were issued. The Advanced Check Options we’ll look at today are aimed at controlling when and how alerts are issued.

All you need to know about GIS Maps on-premise with Geoserver

Since version 7.0 NG 723, Pandora FMS has a new feature that allows the use of GIS maps with Geoserver for its integration with Pandora FMS GIS maps. Geoserver is a free, open source Java-based server that allows you to view, edit and share geospatial data.GIS maps with Geoserver work with the free OpenLayers library and by using the WMS (Web Map Service) standard, maps with different output formats are easily and quickly available.

Survey reveals rapidly growing role of IT Service Alerting

In a survey conducted at Microsoft Ignite 2018 in Orlando, Florida, Derdack investigated the state of IT alerting solutions among businesses. The survey is based on 368 participants, randomly selected among IT professionals visiting the expo showfloor. The survey revealed if and if yes, which IT alerting solutions (ITSA / “IT Service Alerting”) businesses use to support their IT operations and to respond faster to major and critical IT incidents.

The Definitive Guide to Better On-Call

On-Call rotations are essential to supporting 24/7 application availability. But too many companies slap together an ad-hoc process without ever considering the repercussions. In this guide, we'll explore the 7½ reasons better on-call makes a REAL difference for your company, and we'll throw in a few tips and tricks to help you along the way.

Monitoring Java applications: Memory usage, threads and other JRE metrics

In this post we will cover how to monitor the Java Runtime Environment (JRE). You will learn how to assess the performance of your Java application by profiling its memory usage, the garbage collector metrics, monitoring Java daemon and user threads and other fundamental JRE metrics. We will finish with a real Java JRE troubleshooting example using opensource Sysdig and Docker.