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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.
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Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
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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.
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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.
New in Grafana 9.1: Trace to metrics allows users to navigate from a trace span to a selected data source
Traces, logs, and metrics provide inherently different views into a system, which is why correlating between them is important. With features like exemplar support, trace to logs, and span references, you can quickly jump between most telemetry signals in Grafana. With the release of Grafana 9.1, we’re improving Grafana’s ability to correlate different signals by adding the functionality to link between traces and metrics.
See the big picture with the Service Dependency Graph
Understanding the impact and scope of an incident when degradation occurs is critical for returning your service online. This requires modeling the many downstream and upstream relationships between your services. Our new Service Dependency Graph provides a shortcut – a way to surface dependencies quickly, understand the relationship between services, and determine the scope or impact of an incident.
How to Supercharge Your Website Monitoring in 5 Minutes or Less
I’m a recent entrant to the Website Monitoring game, but there is one thing I realized straight away: A Monitoring tool is only as good as it’s configured to be. Website monitoring is at its best when it’s reliable, informative, and efficient. When it gives you the information you need, when you need it, and the peace of mind to say “if I’m not being alerted, I know it’s still working.”
Using N-central for Server Hardware Monitoring
While it is fair to say that in recent years we’ve seen a shift to servers being deployed in the cloud through Microsoft Azure or AWS, I’m sure if you’re reading this today you still have a large percentage of physical servers under your management, including Hyper-V and ESXi hosts. N-central’s ESXi monitoring should automatically detect and monitor the hardware in these boxes, but what about the rest?
geeks+gurus: Rise of SRE - Survey Insights
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) continues to rise in adoption. Teams that leverage SRE “good” practices are benefitting, individuals are excited about their jobs and IT and the business are collaborating more efficiently. Sounds interesting? We hope so, as there are a few key insights which you should know. Join us to learn more about the exciting journey of SRE. We have partnered with DevOps Institute (DOI) to conduct their inaugural 2022 Global SRE Pulse Survey, and we are excited to share the pulse on SRE.
Hector - Asset Tracking Software - Back to School Release - Inventory
Do you have asset tracking issues? Do you spend hours updating your inventory on an Excel file? Introducing Hector, your ultimate asset manager. This short video will give you an overview of some of Hector's new features for its back to school release and the benefits it can bring to your organization. Our inventory management software is regularly updated with feedback from our users. Choose a solution that fits your needs!
Hector - Asset Tracking Software - Creating Barcodes On The Fly
Do you have asset tracking issues? Do you spend hours updating your inventory on an Excel file? Introducing Hector, your ultimate asset manager. This short video will give you an overview of how to create a barcode on the fly. Our inventory management software is regularly updated with feedback from our users. Choose a solution that fits your needs! Hector is a SaaS solution that can be customized to your needs. Free yourself from the constraints of inventory management and choose a solution that suits you.
What's the deal with Playwright's web-first assertions?
While Playwright uses Jest's "expect" library for test assertions it adds additional functionality to it. Web-first assertions make web UI testing more convenient. Learn what they're about in this week's Playwright tip!
Top 5 IoT challenges and how to solve them
There are a number of challenges to surmount for enterprises in the IoT sector, including having a short time to market, airtight security, a versatile update mechanism for hardware and software and mastering device management. The more planning and practical steps that are taken to address key considerations, the faster an IoT project can get to market and make an impact on the world.
Send a Test Span Through an OpenTelemetry Collector
The scenario: you want to see distributed traces, maybe for your web app. You’ve set up an OpenTelemetry collector to receive OTLP traces in JSON over HTTP, and send those to Honeycomb (how to do that is another post, and we’ll link it here when it’s up).