Already have a monitoring service with your current host? Does your plan include Amazon CloudWatch, Azure Monitor or another proprietary monitoring tool? You might want to check the fine print. These services often provide internal web monitoring only. While they may check HTTP availability from locations outside their network, HTTP checks alone are not sufficient.
At least 10 major data breaches occurred in 2018 including Facebook, Google Plus, WordPress, and healthcare sectors. The surge in breaches proves we need to do a better job detecting foul play. User data and our own IP are crucial assets to safeguard in this environment. We also observed major downtime incidents from companies like Facebook and Microsoft.
Are website visitors experiencing problems with accessing your website or email? Your domain may be blacklisted. If your website isn’t available, blacklists can wreak havoc on your web traffic potentially resulting in lost revenue. It’s crucial to remedy the problem immediately. Uptime.com includes a Domain Blacklist Check to continually monitor your site for issues.
Now that companies depend on the cloud for access to key services and business operations, downtime has a larger impact on productivity. Uptime is just as critical to small businesses as it is to major ecommerce retailers on Black Friday. Even the public relies on various services like Alexa and email to be available throughout the day. Looking at major outages over the past year provides insight into how companies prepare to handle these events.
The Uptime.com Transaction Check tool is evolving. It’s designed to mimic user interactions, and can interact with nearly every element on your website. The Transaction Check is an important monitor for those worried about conversions or signup forms. It can measure landing pages, shopping carts, and other interactive elements, mimicking the customer experience and providing important metrics about response time and errors along the way.
As expected, Black Friday and Cyber Monday 2018 sales broke records. Amazon reported their highest sales day ever on Cyber Monday, though exact numbers weren’t provided. Brick-and-mortar retailers saw a decline in foot traffic by 1.7% on Black Friday, hinting at the importance of website performance for retailers of all sizes. Companies are more conscious of website downtime and its effect on sales.
A changelog is a chronological list of important changes users can reference as an application or service expands. Logs explain what features are added, which are changed or adjusted and what those changes do. They sometimes provide explanation or instruction. Logs are useful for preparing your user base for scheduled downtime, and giving your most loyal users something to look forward to.
Black Friday sales are not just for brick-and-mortar retailers anymore. In 2017, retail store visitors on the biggest shopping day of the year dropped four percent. Meanwhile, mobile and online Black Friday sales rose 17 percent last year, with customers spending almost $8 billion. The entire weekend (Black Friday through Cyber Monday) brought in almost $20 billion in online sales.
High-level thinking thrives on interactive reporting. A wealth of data provides great minds with what they need to draw meaningful insights. Teams can then make informed decisions with measurable outcomes. Troubleshooting domain performance and server management both require ample data for root cause analysis. You’re not just looking for downtime. Instead, you’re studying overall performance and tracking incidents as they unfold.
If you’re responsible for keeping tabs on multiple domains, finding what you need when you need it is often half the battle. Want to access checks quickly and easily? Create custom tags for filtering checks in your Dashboard. You will get the info you need without having to look through unrelated information about other sites. Not sure how to organize your checks?
