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Having their websites constantly perform at their optimal capacity should be the aim of all businesses and website owners. When websites go down, load slowly, or underperform, the user experience suffers. This can result in low sales and conversions. So what can you do to ensure your website remains fully functional? In this article, we’ll look at the importance of monitoring your website with a powerful monitoring tool like Pingdom®.

Hello, and welcome back (to some of you, at least) from quarantine. Although things may look as though they’ve reached a new normal, our present equilibrium still includes a number of glitches. In May, in addition to the usual outages due to overloaded servers, we also have outages due to failures of partner monitoring, plus – an Anodot first – a pizza arbitrage issue. Is it true that you can make money by selling pizzas to yourself?

Revenue monitoring not only involves monitoring huge amounts of data in real-time but also finding correlations between thousands, if not millions, of customer experience and other metrics. Are traditional monitoring methods capable of detecting a correlation between a drop in user log-ins and a drop in revenue as it’s happening? For many reasons, the answer is no.

It can be quite challenging for an SRE team to maintain the well-being of a large-scale Kubernetes based system with hundreds or thousands of services. In this blog post, Gigi Sayfan, author of “Mastering Kubernetes”, outlines the SRE challenge and how we can achieve the ultimate goal of automated SRE with Kubernetes operators.