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Step By Step Guide to Monitoring Your Apache HTTP Servers

Monitoring Apache HTTP servers is crucial for ensuring they are always available and perform optimally, helping to identify and resolve bottlenecks and inefficiencies. It aids in capacity planning and security by detecting abnormal activities and potential security threats. Regular monitoring also facilitates troubleshooting, improves service reliability, and ensures compliance with regulatory standards.

Top 20 Web Application Monitoring Tools in 2024

Whether you run your web app or rely on third-party services such as HubSpot, Slack, Basecamp, and Gmail, staying on top of web applications has become a part of many businesses’ daily business activities. As a result, modern web application monitoring software has become necessary for every company. Web application monitoring software allows users to monitor and assess various aspects of web apps, including functionality, efficiency, and performance.

Datadog Conversations: How Life360 Keeps Families Safe with Observability

Life360 is a family safety app driven by the mission to protect and connect people, pets, and things. Naveen Puvvula, Director of Cloud Operations, and Jesse Gonzalez, Senior Staff Site Reliability Engineer, discuss why observability is critical to achieving reliability and how they continue to deliver real-time location updates for their users even during high-traffic events. Finally, they share their advice for other tech leaders in the industry to choose partners that align closely to solve problems together and technologies that reduce friction and improve developer joy.

6 Strategies for Businesses Planning to Utilize the Internet of Things

The Internet of Things (IoT) is redefining business operations across various sectors, offering unprecedented connectivity and data insights. This technology integrates sensors and devices into everyday objects, enabling them to send and receive data over the internet. As industries look to harness the power of IoT to enhance operational efficiency and decision-making, it becomes imperative to adopt strategic measures for successful integration. This guide outlines six key strategies to help businesses effectively utilize IoT technology.

Why the Early Results of Observability Deployments Look So Promising

Editor’s Note: This is the second installment of a series of blog posts previewing our State of Observability 2024 survey report. In the first episode of this blog series, we looked at where IT organizations are in their observability journeys and found, rather surprisingly, that most enterprise IT organizations and MSPs were just getting started in observability. Yet 96% of respondents told us their observability solution was delivering the value they expected.

LogicMonitor's latest innovations to optimize cloud performance and costs

LogicMonitor stands at the forefront of innovation in IT infrastructure monitoring, and our newest solutions help our customers optimize performance, manage costs, and gain deeper visibility into their network operations. Our vision is to empower businesses with the observability needed to navigate modern IT complexities with AI-powered solutions that drive efficiency.

Grafana Cloud updates: revamped Synthetic Monitoring, improvements to Kubernetes Monitoring, and more

We consistently release helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack (Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics). In case you missed it, here’s a roundup of the latest and greatest updates for Grafana Cloud this month. You can also read about all the features we add to Grafana Cloud in our What’s New in Grafana Cloud documentation.