Work-life balance is so important to us that 72% of U.S. employees consider it a high priority when choosing a job. It lets you spend time with your family and friends and gives you a much-needed break from work. For those of us in the website monitoring world, it can be hard to find that balance. Bad website monitoring only worsens the issue, leading to more stressed-out, overworked developers who ultimately burn out and even quit.

A good website monitoring tool provides plenty of features and is easy to use. But what happens when you find out the tool you were so excited about doesn’t allow you to send information to your existing status dashboard? Now you have to manage two separate tools and even duplicate work. This is not ideal. Integration capabilities of a website monitoring tool make your life easier by seamlessly merging with external tools and dashboards of your business.

Automated alerts or notifications are forwarded through texts, emails, pagers, and CRMs to tell you when an error or predefined event has been discovered within the service. They are integral to many business intelligence solutions, including site reliability monitoring to address the factors that impact website performance. A performance monitoring tool like Uptime.com makes it easier to configure your notification settings for testing various networks, SLAs, and servers.

Three seconds is a very important number for website owners. They know that 50% of visitors will leave their website if it doesn’t load in that time. Website developers spend a lot of time optimizing and refactoring code so that it runs more quickly and provides a better user experience. User experience is something that monitoring only uptime won’t tell you. A website might be up, but if it takes 10 seconds to load, customers will bounce.

Thanksgiving can seem like a stereotypical American holiday, filled with images of family and friends gathered around tables overflowing with food. But harvest celebrations are far older than the United States. People have gathered in late autumn to enjoy the fruits of their labors for generations, long before the first Pilgrim arrived in the New World. The annual harvest feast is a time to look back on and enjoy the hard-earned comforts.

Remember the last time you tried to visit a website or pay a bill and the spinner just kept going and going? That site needed uptime monitoring! “Uptime monitoring” refers to the practice of tracking a website’s availability and performance quality over time. This type of monitoring includes services that report on the availability of a website or server. Monitoring tools ensure that your website or server is running smoothly.

Web performance isn’t just about how long a website needs to render all its page elements—it also covers techniques for monitoring an application’s runtime, user-defined transactions, component response times, and network requests. The important thing is using performance data to evaluate the success of your app or service, whether you’re trying to compare different versions or introduce new capabilities.

According to Orca Security’s 2022 Cloud Security Report, 59% of respondents received over 500 alerts a day, with more than 42% of them being false positive alerts. And 62% of them said it has contributed to employee turnover. With numbers like this, it’s no wonder why developers dread the false positive alert. They waste time, energy, and money for everyone in every technology space, whether it is cloud or web services. It’s time to change that.

Any modern organization depends heavily on the health of its network and servers. If a server goes down, it can seriously impact a business’s ability to provide services for clients and customers to get work done. If network admins don’t know a server went down, the problem could quickly worsen. No one may realize there is a problem until the support lines are loaded with calls, and everyone needs to scramble first to find the issue and then fix it.

Companies, like most things, rarely grow in a straight line. Plants will take root where they can, and send shoots where they can to get the most sunlight, even if there are obstacles in the way. But vines and branches aren’t known for their efficient pathing, which can make a tangled mess of the whole plant. So get a good sun hat and some pruning shears ready; you’ll need them today! The difference between organic and structured growth is one of purpose and planning.