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15 Ways to Use the Uptime.com HTTP(S) Check Effectively

Uptime.com checks can test anytime, from anywhere, to catch the downtime incidents you need caught. With worldwide probes, or through private locations that monitor your internal network, we reliably detect outages and monitor performance across your websites, applications, servers and infrastructure. Read on to explore 15 use cases for the HTTP(S) check type. HTTP(S) checks validate if a server is up or down, while reducing the possibility of false positives.

Designing a Parquet Catalog for InfluxDB IOx

One of the things we needed to either adopt or build for InfluxDB IOx is a database catalog. If you haven’t heard us talk about it yet, InfluxDB IOx (pronounced eye-ox) is the new in-memory columnar database that uses object storage for persistence. We’re building it as the future core of InfluxDB. A database catalog usually contains the definitions of a database’s structure like schema and indexes.

We present you Pandora FMS Roadmap 2021 - 2023

In this article, we will introduce you to the new Pandora FMS Roadmap for the next 24 months (June 2021 – June 2023). For its creation, we had the participation of our clients and partners, who, through a survey, helped us choose all kinds of features and their priority. It’s been really satisfying for us to complete this challenge, as it was one of those enthusiastically proposed among our closest goals.

How Website Monitoring Can Help Improve the End-User Experience

Making your customers happy is essential in any industry, but it’s imperative for online businesses because the competition is only a few clicks away. If you want your customers to be satisfied, providing them a great user experience is essential. This is easier said than done, however. There are many approaches for organizations wanting to improve their user experience, and picking the right one can become overwhelming. We’re here to help.

A bittersweet anniversary for eG Innovations

For me, it’s been 20 years since eG entered the US marketplace-at that time, I was one of their first customers and have remained close to them ever since. For a company to survive two decades in an unbelievably complex and competitive performance monitoring landscape is no small feat, and I believe we are still a ‘gem’ in an often confused and fragmented marketplace.

What Does Modern Infrastructure Include and How Do You Monitor It?

Understanding modern software applications isn’t just a question of what; it’s also a question of why. Why do we choose to use a particular technology? How does that technology serve the overall business needs? And when you have a problem, how do you figure out what’s wrong? If you’re in the position of trying to understand a modern software application for the first time, these questions can seem unanswerable.

Avoid These 4 Common Mistakes When Setting and Measuring Latency SLOs

Setting and measuring latency Service Level Objectives (SLOs) is a critical responsibility for engineers monitoring the performance and health of their applications and systems. SLOs are an agreement on an acceptable level of availability and performance and are key to helping engineers properly balance risk and innovation.