Today we’ve added a new integration with the DataDog service. This means that you can now import your monitoring data from StatusCake to DataDog each time that an UP or DOWN status is triggered on a StatusCake test.

When troubleshooting Citrix end user experience issues, problems are often rooted in the bandwidth users have available for Citrix connectivity or Citrix connection latency. However, these conditions are not visible from a pure network monitoring perspective, as network monitoring tools can only leverage Netflow, AppFlow Analysis, SNMP, SYSLOG or ICMP monitoring.

For about 3 hours at the very beginning of Amazon Prime Day, Amazon’s website experienced outages on both the East and West coasts of the US. Even the world’s largest retailer isn’t prone to technical mishaps. In fact, Amazon’s server infrastructure is reasonably stable. This particular outage is a fascinating study in how Amazon’s website downtime affects a business in real time.

With the release of the NiCE Active O365 MP for Microsoft SCOM a new era of advanced synthetic, hybrid Exchange Online monitoring has begun, giving you insight far beyond of what the Office 365 Service Health Dashboard can display.

In A Comedy of Errors, we talk to engineers about the weirdest, worst, and most interesting application and infrastructure issues they’ve encountered (and resolved) over the years. This week, we hear from Eli Perkins, Mobile Engineer at Clubhouse. Clubhouse is a project management platform that makes it simple for software teams to relate how their everyday tasks are contributing towards a larger goal.

We’ve been busy, and we have revamped our popular, free Website Speed Test Tool making it even better with new features and more information. You get real insights into the performance of your website (or your competitors’). We’ve identified 18 things we know you’re going to love about Uptrends’ free Website Speed Test Tool, but we are pretty sure you will find even more things to love when you see it in action.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) provides Kubernetes as a managed service on AWS. It helps make it easier to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications on Kubernetes. Sysdig cloud-native intelligence solutions – Sysdig Monitor, and Sysdig Secure – provide Amazon EKS monitoring and security from a single agent and unified platform. Sysdig helps AWS customers see more, secure more, and save time in troubleshooting deployed microservices.

King James I of England missed the mark when he allegedly proclaimed “No news is better than evil news”. While you may not be receiving any alerts, that may actually be indicative of your sender system malfunctioning. How are you supposed to know, then, if that is the case?