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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Oracle JDK to OpenJDK: A Guide to Reliable Migration Testing
One of the most common infrastructure changes Java developers and operators are dealing with today is the migration from Oracle Java to OpenJDK. The reason is the licensing changes made by Oracle and the maturity of the OpenJDK distributions. The migration process is quite simple: replace the JDK, recompile the code, and redeploy the application. However, the differences between the two runtimes can lead to unexpected issues that are not caught by unit tests.
Making our docs AI-friendly: a tale of two caches
Our documentation, FAQ, and blog posts can now be served as clean markdown to AI agents. Send Accept: text/markdown or append.md to the URL, and you get structured content instead of a full HTML page. It worked great in development. Then we deployed, and two separate caching layers broke everything.
Troubleshooting Microservices with OpenTelemetry Distributed Tracing
Distributed tracing doesn’t just show you what happened. It shows you why things broke. While logs tell you a service returned a 500 error and metrics show latency spiked, only traces reveal the full chain of causation: the upstream timeout that triggered a retry storm, the N+1 query pattern that saturated your connection pool, or the missing cache hit that turned a 50ms call into a 3-second database roundtrip.
5 Ways to Defend Yourself Against Allegations of Data Misuse or Cybercrime
You may have the impression that cybercrime charges only target shadowy and sketchy personalities on the net. Yet you can face serious allegations or charges over a simple login, a shared drive, or a file you thought you could use. However, when data misuse claims surface, your reaction and next steps can determine your tomorrow. Adopting a calm and more informed strategy can help protect your record, reputation, and future.
ManageEngine: Multi-cloud infrastructure monitoring
Join our four-week free training series to master application performance monitoring with ManageEngine Applications Manager. Learn to monitor applications, cloud and infrastructure, detect issues early, optimize performance, and improve user experience through practical demos and expert-led sessions designed for IT and DevOps professionals.
ManageEngine: Digital experience monitoring
Join our four-week free training series to master application performance monitoring with ManageEngine Applications Manager. Learn to monitor applications, cloud and infrastructure, detect issues early, optimize performance, and improve user experience through practical demos and expert-led sessions designed for IT and DevOps professionals.
ManageEngine: Application performance monitoring
Join our four-week free training series to master application performance monitoring with ManageEngine Applications Manager. Learn to monitor applications, cloud and infrastructure, detect issues early, optimize performance, and improve user experience through practical demos and expert-led sessions designed for IT and DevOps professionals.
ManageEngine: Application-centric infrastructure monitoring
Join our four-week free training series to master application performance monitoring with ManageEngine Applications Manager. Learn to monitor applications, cloud and infrastructure, detect issues early, optimize performance, and improve user experience through practical demos and expert-led sessions designed for IT and DevOps professionals.
Speedscale Named in Gartner Market Guide for API Testing
In the highly dynamic environment of modern engineering, an appropriate strategy for API quality is more important than ever. We are pleased to announce that Speedscale has been named in the latest “Market Guide for API and MCP Testing Tools” report from Gartner. As software development is shifting towards complex distributed architectures, integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI-based workflows, the need for realistic testing has never been higher.
Amazon Web Services outage - February 10, 2026
On February 10, 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage that triggered widespread reports of CloudFront failures and DNS resolution issues. While AWS later acknowledged the incident, StatusGator detected the disruption earlier using Early Warning Signals, giving customers valuable lead time before the provider confirmed anything publicly.