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Incident Management Lifecycle Essentials

If an incident occurs, do you know how to manage this issue from start to finish? Incident management is complex, particularly for IT professionals who face a sudden network or system outage that impacts business operations. But for IT professionals who understand the ins and outs of incident management, they can take the guesswork out of complex incidents.

4 Metrics to Monitor When Scaling Up and Down in the Cloud

Due to its highly scalable nature, monitoring cloud computing is different from monitoring on-premise servers. The cloud vendor may have tools you can use, but if they fall short of your monitoring requirements you need to seek alternative solutions. Discover the right monitoring tools for your situation.

Your Rails & Elixir performance metrics inside Chrome Dev Tools

Browser development tools - like Chrome Dev Tools - are vital for debugging client-side performance issues. However, server-side performance metrics have been outside the browser's reach. That changes with the Server Timing API. Supported by Chrome 65+, Firefox 59+, and more browsers, the Server Timing API defines a spec that enables a server to communicate performance metrics about the request-response cycle to the user agent.

CloudSploit Compliance Scanning Scans AWS Infrastructure for Compliance with Privacy Standards

One of the most common business requirements data handlers face is the numerous data privacy standards present as industry standards. Each industry has their own variation, each with their own specific requirements — but regardless of the standard or the applied dataset, compliance is extremely important.

3 Ways that Continuous Delivery and Incident Response Enable Fast Feedback

One of the most impressive books on DevOps, “The DevOps Handbook”, emphasis three fundamental principles underpinning DevOps: systems thinking, amplify feedback loops, and continual experimentation & learning. Amplifying feedback loops is described as creating the right to left feedback loops, which helps corrections to be made continually, by Gene Kim in his blog post. But, let’s start with why we should do this in the first place.

Under-the-hood with Scout: a look at a New Relic alternative

When New Relic launched ten years ago, web applications had a tendency to fail hard and in more obvious ways. Today, it's easier to build resilient apps, but they fail in more complex, unique, and subtle ways. These issues are time-consuming to track down. While several niche New Relic alternatives have appeared, they've focused on a lighter feature set versus solving these increasingly hard performance problems.

Infrastructure maps: Build and visualize custom network topology maps to dissect network outages and performance bottlenecks in your IT stack

The ability to visualize your IT infrastructure from end to end is critical in fostering successful operations and delivery of service. Being a network admin, you need to keep a close eye on all your network devices, whether they're across the globe or inside your data centers. However, this is difficult to do without an actual location-based topology map of your network infrastructure.

Hosted Status Pages & Monitoring

Hi there! this is the first post on Statuspal’s young life :) we’ll be using this publication to communicate about new and upcoming features on our beloved platform and of course all things related to status pages & monitoring. First, an introduction is in order, Statuspal aims to solve a subtle but important problem, status communication & monitoring, sometimes sites go down, no matter how perfectly engineered they are, they will go down.