The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Historically, software development and SRE have worked in silos with different cultural perspectives and priorities. The goal of DevOps is to establish common and complementary practices across software development and operations. Sadly, in some organizations true collaboration is rare and we still have a way to go to build effective DevOps partnerships.
With a standard model for monitoring data across the organization, different teams can use a common infrastructure and extract maximum value from it. Monitoring (also sometimes referred to as observability) involves collecting and analyzing data from a source over time to track its health and/or performance. Because change occurs over time, virtually all monitoring data is time series data, meaning it has a timestamp.
Oh Dear has an extensive API that powers various powerful integrations. To use the API, you first need to create an API Token in the Oh Dear UI. Previously, such a token could be used to make API calls to any site or status page in your Oh Dear account. We noticed that some of our users are agencies that use Oh Dear to monitor their clients' sites.
Hall of Fame professional wrestler Paul "Mr. Wonderful" Orndorff said of his ascent to become one of the WWE's biggest stars of the 1980s that, "I knew where I wanted to go. I had a plan. I don't care what you do in life, you better have a plan." And for ITOps teams making new plan-or adjusting the sails on their existing ones-it's good to have insights that inform those plans.
It can be challenging to understand the specific factors that can cause traffic to surge on your website. Sometimes there are temporary spikes, usually related to sales or special events, and other times this increase in traffic can be permanent. Website owners should be ready to handle large volumes of visitors as any breakdown, no matter how short-lived, can cause you to lose potential business.
