As ITSM thought leader and consultant Doug Tedder has said, “Automate the obvious.” So what’s obvious? We shouldn’t have to think very long…
Datadog Synthetic Monitoring allows you to proactively monitor your applications so that you can detect, troubleshoot, and resolve any availability or performance issues before they impact your end users. With our API test suite, you can send simulated HTTP requests to your API endpoints, check the validity of SSL certificates, verify the performance and correctness of DNS resolutions, test TCP connections, and ping endpoints to detect server connectivity issues.
It takes 50 milliseconds for visitors to decide whether to bounce from your website, that’s.05 seconds, or about half the time it takes you to blink. In website monitoring we talk a lot about uptime, and while making sure your site returns 200 OK is important, if your load time isn’t instant you’ll lose traffic regardless.
Welcome to the 5th edition of Open Source Matters: our regular publication about the latest happenings in open source! Let’s dive into the news.