The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.
Over the past couple of weeks we've been optimising the Downtime Monkey website to reduce page load time. We've had some excellent results: in the best case scenario we cut page load time by 58% and even in the worst case, the page load was still 9% faster. All of the changes that were made are straightforward and we've provided in-depth details of the optimisations so that you can apply them to your own website.
Selling things online is not as easy anymore as it used to be 5 or 10 years ago. The competition has skyrocketed, customers got spoiled and much more intelligent in making good choices. We will discuss a quick nine tips to keep your online customers happy and give them a great user experience.
We published small update, where you can now enable detailed certificate validation which checks for name mismatch, chain validation errors and other common issues.
Do you own website or blog and want to be informed when it becomes inaccessible? Maybe there is an issue with your web application or web server becomes unresponsive and you want to resolve issues as quickly as possible? AppBeat is right tool for you and now, for limited time, we offer you 75% discount on Standard yearly plan which includes 15 one-minute checks.
Back in August we released source map upload via a new API for minified JavaScript. Now we are happy to announce the release of our Honeybadger Weback Plugin that uploads the source map produced when minifying JavaScript to our API.
When a critical security flaw affecting hardware is identified -- such as the recently publicized chip vulnerabilities (Meltdown, Spectre) -- your cloud provider takes steps to implement the necessary patch(es) to protect its infrastructure. Updates performed by your cloud provider may require scheduled reboots for your cloud resources. For example, the security patch for Intel processors requires a machine reboot since the patch includes an update to the hypervisor kernel.
