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What is Palo Alto Panorama?

Palo Alto Panorama is a network management system (NMS) that provides excellent security updates and static rules in a constantly changing world. The modern world is implementing more technology into our daily lives, so we need more creative and innovative solutions to protect our data and information. Implementing Palo Alto Panorama will reduce administrator workload by building a dashboard where you can monitor all of your IT operations in one place, in real-time.

Elevate Customer-Facing Contact Centers with Nexthink

Contact centers (or call centers) are crucial touchpoints for customer interactions across various channels, including phone, email, SMS, live chat, and more. As businesses strive to deliver exceptional customer experiences (particularly in high-volume consumer-facing industries such as financial services, telecom, travel, insurance, healthcare, online retail, etc.), it’s imperative to optimize contact center performance. How imperative?

From Spotify to Open Source: The Backstory of Backstage

Technology juggernauts–despite their larger staffs and budgets–still face the “cognitive load” for DevOps that many organizations deal with day-to-day. That’s what led Spotify to build Backstage, which supports DevOps and platform engineering practices for the creation of developer portals.

Best Bee-haviors: Revamping Feature Flags with Nathan Lincoln

Nathan Lincoln, an SRE at Honeycomb, walks through the basics of feature flag best practices (using LaunchDarkly) to help you maintain a stable system. Feature flags are useful for reducing outages and downtime in our systems by allowing traffic segmentation, but they can create chaos without proper maintenance.

Kubernetes Architecture Part 1: Reasons to Choose Kubernetes

This Kubernetes Architecture series covers the main components used in Kubernetes and provides an introduction to Kubernetes architecture. After reading these blogs, you’ll have a much deeper understanding of the main reasons for choosing Kubernetes as well as the main components that are involved when you start running applications on Kubernetes. This blog series covers the following topics.

New Check Type this May: Page Speed Monitoring!

The Uptime.com Page Speed Check has arrived! 🚀 We’ve rebuilt our old Website Speed free test using the most up-to-date analytics, metrics, and auditing tools available to make sure that your websites are performing as expected, every single hour of every day. Keep reading to see exactly how our new Page Speed Check can take your website monitoring and observability to the next level.

Using Retry Insights to Identify Flaky Checks

As you know, having reliable checks is a cornerstone of synthetic monitoring. We don’t want false alarms, or worse, checks succeeding when things aren’t working. But sometimes, problems can be hard to identify because they only happen intermittently, or in certain situations. Similarly, monitoring results can be skewed by infrastructure issues, or network errors on the monitoring provider end, causing false alarms when there is actually no problem with the product.