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What's the easiest way to check my website's uptime?

Aug 4, 2025 By Laurens Goethals In Oh Dear
Whether you're keeping a personal blog or manage a corporate site or online storefront, website downtime can cost money and can damage your reputation. Let alone when you're maintaining a bunch of different client sites. And while downtime can't always be prevented, it's really easy to at least keep track of things, and diagnose potential issues from there. So, let’s start with the easy part.
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What are Application Metrics?

Aug 4, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Application metrics are structured, quantifiable signals that reflect how your software behaves in production. They capture key aspects of performance, response times, error rates, throughput, and resource usage, giving you a real-time view into the health of your system. Tracking the right metrics helps detect regressions early, surface latent issues before they impact users, and guide optimization decisions based on hard data, not guesswork.
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Top 5 EdTech outages detected by StatusGator in July 2025

Aug 4, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
July 2025 saw several significant service disruptions affecting the education technology (EdTech) ecosystem. From online learning platforms to creative tools used by teachers and students, these outages caused widespread frustration. StatusGator monitored and detected these incidents, providing early alerts to help schools and organizations stay informed.
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Tracking Safety: The Role of Mobile Monitoring in Protecting Vulnerable Family Members

Tracking Safety: The Role of Mobile Monitoring in Protecting Vulnerable Family Members

Aug 4, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
It's never been easier to stay connected with the people you care about. Thanks to smartphones and GPS technology, families now have powerful tools to protect their loved ones-whether they're across town or across the country. But these same tools raise important questions: how much should we monitor, and when is it necessary? Let's explore how mobile tracking can help safeguard the most vulnerable members of our families-from kids to grandparents-and how to use it responsibly.
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signoz

How We Think About "Developer Marketing" at SigNoz

Aug 3, 2025 By Ankit Anand In SigNoz
“Developers hate marketing.” Do they, really? I often hear this thrown around on podcasts about DevTools marketing, and while it’s true that developers don’t respond to the same old marketing tactics, they do respond to genuine communication. The reason developers are hard to “market” to is that they are also the builders of the stuff you want to sell.
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netdata

Netdata Now Troubleshoots Your Alerts for You

Aug 3, 2025 By Shyam Sreevalsan In netdata
The 2 AM pager alert. For anyone in Ops, SRE, or IT administration, those words trigger a familiar sense of dread. An alert has fired. Is it a real fire, or another false alarm waking you from a dead sleep? The pressure is on. Every minute of downtime costs money and reputation, but troubleshooting a complex system when you’re sleep-deprived is a Herculean task.
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isdown

Incident Commander Role: Responsibilities and Best Practices

Aug 3, 2025 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
When a critical system goes down at 3 AM, the difference between a quick resolution and hours of costly downtime often comes down to one role: the incident commander. This person serves as the central coordinator during IT incidents, making crucial decisions that can save thousands of dollars per minute.
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Selector MCP and the Future of Modular Automation

Aug 1, 2025 By John Capobianco In Selector
In the first two parts of this series, we explored why modern network operations demand intelligent automation and how AI agents can reason, act, and collaborate to solve complex problems. We examined the frameworks – such as ReACT, LangGraph, and Pydantic – that power these agents, and how the Model Context Protocol (MCP) facilitates seamless integration with tools and services. But theory alone doesn’t improve network uptime or reduce manual toil.
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