Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

When a third-party service you depend on goes down, every minute counts. The sooner your team knows about the outage, the faster you can respond and reduce downtime. Since most IT and operations teams live in Slack, it makes sense to receive real-time outage notifications directly in Slack channels where you already collaborate. There are several ways to do this, from integrating an all-in-one status page aggregator like StatusGator, to setting up RSS feeds or building your own Slack app.

In distributed architectures, the back-end service reliability of microservice endpoints and internal APIs relies on the health of local URLs. These local URLs are not exposed to the public internet and are essential for your IT infrastructure health and automation suites. Site24x7’s server URL check is engineered for operations teams that require immediate visibility into these server-level endpoints. These granular endpoints are often overlooked by traditional external monitoring tools.

It's well-known that an alert that just states “the server is down,” is not particularly helpful for your already overworked SysAdmins and SRE teams. Diagnosing why the server went down is their challenge. The problem is that memory spikes, CPU overload, failing services, or blocked ports can all look the same from a distance. Too often, these issues are responsible for delayed fixes, alert fatigue, and hours wasted switching between tools for data correlation.

AI is being adopted at a faster rate than ever across the business world. According to Stanford, 78% of organizations had implemented AI in some form by 2024. And if that’s not convincing enough, 92% of companies plan to expand their AI investment over the next three years. Practically everyone, including your competitors, is already using AI to gain a competitive edge. If you don’t act soon, there's a real risk of falling behind.

Network administration has become more complex than ever. IT professionals are tasked with managing sprawling infrastructures, maintaining uptime, optimizing performance and defending against increasingly sophisticated security threats. With hybrid environments, cloud integrations and remote workforces, the pressure to maintain seamless connectivity and security is relentless.

Organizations are increasingly looking to build quality and security into their systems and services by design, often by the adoption of frameworks, standards and certifications such as SOC 2 Type 2 audits and ISO/IEC 27001.

For years, WebPageTest has been the gold standard in web performance testing, trusted by developers, SEOs, and performance engineers worldwide to make the web faster and better. Now, we’re taking that mission even further.

We've just released Refinery 3.0, a performance-focused update which significantly improves Refinery's CPU and memory efficiency. Refinery has a big job: it performs dynamic, consistent tail-based sampling that maintains proportions across key fields, adjusts to changes in throughput, and reports accurate sampling rates.

Four months ago, we announced our vision of AI-first observability. Today, we’re not just talking about the future, we’re shipping it. This week marks a significant milestone with several major product announcements that demonstrate our continued momentum as the industry’s leading AI-first observability platform.