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18 things to love about Uptrends' free Website Speed Test Tool

We’ve been busy, and we have revamped our popular, free Website Speed Test Tool making it even better with new features and more information. You get real insights into the performance of your website (or your competitors’). We’ve identified 18 things we know you’re going to love about Uptrends’ free Website Speed Test Tool, but we are pretty sure you will find even more things to love when you see it in action.

Amazon EKS monitoring and security with Sysdig.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) provides Kubernetes as a managed service on AWS. It helps make it easier to deploy, manage and scale containerized applications on Kubernetes. Sysdig cloud-native intelligence solutions – Sysdig Monitor, and Sysdig Secure – provide Amazon EKS monitoring and security from a single agent and unified platform. Sysdig helps AWS customers see more, secure more, and save time in troubleshooting deployed microservices.

Monitoring DevOps: Where are we now? [Infographic]

Our first DevOps & Monitoring Survey was conducted at ChefConf 2015. This year, we’ve created an infographic based on the facts and figures from our 2018 Monitoring DevOps Survey. The infographic provides a visual representation of the prevalence of DevOps, how monitoring responsibilities are distributed, metrics usage, and various aspects of current monitoring tools.

A Primer on Building a Monitoring Strategy for Amazon RDS

In a previous blog post, we talked about Amazon Relational Database Service (RDS). RDS is one of the most popular cloud-based database services today and extensively used by Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers for its ease of use, cost-effectiveness and simple administration.

3 Reasons to Disable JavaScript Source Fetching in Sentry

When you’re using the Sentry JavaScript SDK, the source code and source maps are automatically fetched by scraping the URLs within the stack trace. While this is the default setting, the ability to disable JavaScript source fetching on a project-by-project basis has always been available. In our continued push to improve configuration accessibility and security, Sentry now allows you to control this feature organization-wide.

4 Steps to Monitor Your Cron Jobs Using PushMon

It is imperative to keep a close watch on all the Cron jobs you have defined on your system, this would include checking errors and validation of codes. For monitoring of defined Cron Jobs, a developer can use a “Hosted monitoring system” like PushMon. This kind of a system is defined as a push monitoring system as it depends on receiving signals from Cron jobs for monitoring and error notification. A system like PushMon has the following 4 steps in its monitor of your Cron job.