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Extending the Capabilities of DX Unified Infrastructure Management: Release 23.4 CU4

Release 23.4 Cumulative Update 4 (CU4) for DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM) adds significant improvements to the product’s security stance and extends technical currency to support modern infrastructures. The release builds on the proven track record of DX UIM to deliver enterprise-ready capabilities and monitoring coverage, while meeting the highest standards for security, scalability, and performance.

How does website monitoring even work?

Every website manager knows that feeling when you look at your inbox only to find a customer notifying you that a core page of your site is down. The worst part of it all, you don’t know how long that page has been down for. If you’ve yet to experience that, count your blessings. Well, unless you decide to opt for a website monitoring solution before it happens to you. With website monitoring, you can ensure every page on your site is up and running at all times.

Building a Simple Synthetic Monitor With OpenTelemetry

Using server-side telemetry to understand what’s going on inside your system is incredibly valuable, but what about the responsiveness the user actually sees? In this post, I’ll cover what synthetic monitoring is and show an example of how you can create a simple monitor using OpenTelemetry, .NET, and an Azure function. If you only want to see how it’s built, skip ahead to building a synthetic monitor.

Events, Alert, and Incidents: What's The Difference? How Do They Relate?

Effectively managing events and alerts is essential for preventing or quickly resolving incidents, whether it’s a sudden service outage or an ongoing cyberattack. The three terms — events, alerts, incidents — are different but they are closely related. Read on to learn more. Ensuring the reliability, performance, and efficiency of IT systems is both the heart of operational excellence and an important strategic objective for digital organizations.

Why choose StatusGator: The smarter way to stay ahead of cloud outages

In today’s cloud-first world, downtime isn’t just an inconvenience—it disrupts work, frustrates users, and costs money. Whether you’re in DevOps, IT support, or engineering, it’s critical to stay informed about outages affecting the services your company relies on. That’s where StatusGator comes in.

Bulletproof strategies against 6 security incident types

Every 11 seconds, a business falls victim to a cyberattack. The financial impact is staggering: $10.5 trillion in annual damages predicted in 2025. But beyond the immediate costs, security incidents can permanently damage your reputation, destroy customer trust, and even force your company to close its doors. What's particularly alarming is how unprepared most organizations are.

Investigating External API Slowdowns

Oftentimes we need to depend on external APIs to achieve the functionality your app offers. And as we all know, dependencies = points of failure. You don’t own what you don’t control. That’s why it’s super important to keep an eye on them. In this video we’re going to see how we can use Sentry to monitor third party APIs to figure out if they’re causing slowdowns in our own app.

Grafana Campfire - Data Visualization Tips and Best Practices (Grafana Community Call- April 2025)

Creating dashboards in Grafana gives you some very good built-in features to manipulate your data by using transformations, variables, filtering, overriding,, annotations for your data and with addition of Community plugins (data sources, panels and apps) increases the user experience to a whole next level. Still, many users do not either know about these features or do not use it correctly and why is the reason?

Why Observability is Getting Expensive and OpenTelemetry is Becoming More Popular | Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs' Jen Villa shares the latest insights into how organizations are rethinking their observability strategies — with cost now taking center stage. This video covers: Chapters: Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.