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Incident Communications - Get Ready for Black Friday/Cyber Monday 2019!

As the year draws to a close, for many of us this is a time to slow down, kick back and look forward to holiday time. For others, the work certainly isn’t done yet. The “S” word comes down to bear. Like it or not, this time of year – it’s all about the Shopping.

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A guide to Apdex score: Calculations, improvements, and more

Apdex scores are a fantastic, simple tool you can use today to better understand how your development team is doing, how it can be improved, and the impact of almost every change to your service. They're also likely a part of your Service Level Agreements (SLAs) with your customers, which help them understand your platform's availability.

The New and Improved Uptime.com Transaction Check Tool

The Uptime.com Transaction Check tool is evolving. It’s designed to mimic user interactions, and can interact with nearly every element on your website. The Transaction Check is an important monitor for those worried about conversions or signup forms. It can measure landing pages, shopping carts, and other interactive elements, mimicking the customer experience and providing important metrics about response time and errors along the way.

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C# Logging best practices in 2019 with examples and tools

Applications that have been deployed to production must be monitored. One of the best ways to monitor application behavior is by emitting, saving, and indexing log data. Logs can be sent to a variety of applications for indexing, where they can then be searched when problems arise.

New generation of web servers based on HTTP/2 and with TLS by default: " Caddy Web Server".

As we all know, Pandora FMS allows the monitoring of practically any device or application. Let’s talk about web content servers. Even the very popular applications or “apps”, made for the Android operating system of our phones, generally use API commands, which are also hosted on web servers to take advantage of the secure protocol (HTTPS).

Cloudways - A Managed Cloud Hosting Platform that Facilitates Choice, Simplicity, and Performance

A reliable web host is unlike any other friend when you’re super monitoring your website. You should be able to spread your wings and expand those horizons without all the fuss. In our search of many web-hosting providers, we found one name that is powerful enough to scale your website effectively – Cloudways.

The Tool Sprawl Problem in Monitoring

One of the biggest KPIs in the DevOps space is monitoring. There are so many tools to help any organization to complete their monitoring picture, but no tool does everything and most organizations use many tools to help complete their monitoring solution. Mashing tools together often creates a problem of its own — the tool sprawl problem.