The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
In August 2022, Checkly's security team successfully implemented and documented all necessary security controls to be SOC 2 compliant for the first time. To get our SOC 2 Type 1 report we had to prove that our engineering, HR, operational, and IT security processes met the high level of information security SOC 2 compliance demands to an accredited auditing firm.
How your code performs isn’t a subjective debate. Well, at least not anymore — in the past few months, Sentry has started telling you exactly what’s slow and where to fix it — specifically, N+1 database queries in your code. While we’ve all had to fix an N+1 problem, performance problems come in multiple flavors. Today, you’ll notice more Performance Issues in your issue feed, Slack alerts, and email notifications.
Statuspage is a popular status page provider used by thousands of teams to communicate the status of their services. Atlassian acquired Statuspage, a Y-Combinator-backed service, in 2016 and invested significantly in expanding status page features to stand out among Statuspage alternatives. Overall, Statuspage is a well-established status page software, but it comes with a higher price than other Statuspage.io alternatives.
Nowadays, it is rather common to see companies adopt several monitoring solutions based on Prometheus, but this is not exempt from pain. A huge number of systems, applications, and third-party software are not instrumented to expose Prometheus metrics natively. Here is where Prometheus exporters come into play.
The online market gets more competitive by the day. You have an increasing number of online businesses competing for the same customers. Therefore, online business owners don't have the luxury of tolerating website issues like crashes. The more your website crashes, the more customers you lose. Even poor page load times increase bounce rates by up to 53%. Essentially, you have no option but to optimize your website and prevent crashes or resolve them as quickly as they happen.
Out of all the tools in your stack, your monitoring tool is probably not your favorite to work with. That's understandable—at best it works seamlessly in the background, at worst it's a source of constant headaches. But let's not underestimate the importance of monitoring tools. They are an essential part of any IT infrastructure, and finding the right one can be quite a challenge.
When devices are not rebooted frequently, it can adversely impact the Logon and Extended logon duration and affect device memory and device performance. This can lead to missing critical patches and Windows updates causing performance and security issues, Hence, scheduled restart of the device once in 7 days is a recommended best practice. Let us look at How to Improve Device Performance by doing a scheduled restart with Nexthink.
Digital transformation is complex, and software license costs can balloon your IT budget. Nexthink helps your team track adoption of SaaS applications, so you can make data-driven decisions to lower costs or speed digital transformation. In this blog, you’ll learn how Nexthink helps IT teams like yours evaluate application adoption and increase usage.
