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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!
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.
Control Your Logging Spend With Usage Quotas
We built LogDNA around the idea that developers are more productive when they have access to all of the logs they need, when they need them. However, we also know that log management can get expensive fast. And, for anyone who owns the budget for developer tools, logs can be an unpredictable line item as you try to determine your monthly, quarterly or even annual spend.
10 Server Maintenance Tips for Efficient Server Maintenance
Just like your commercial vehicles or HVAC systems, servers require regular maintenance to ensure they are operating effectively and optimally. So, we decided to compile a list of server maintenance tips you should be doing. Keep in mind, these server maintenance tips are meant to be used as a guide to help you develop your server maintenance checklist and schedule.
A CIO's View of Observability: The Key to Balancing Strategic and Operational Needs
IT executives are being invited to play critical, strategic roles in the enterprise. The combination of disruptive threats, transformational momentum, and the pandemic that accelerated both have thrust you into the limelight. But these same drivers have also made your job exponentially more challenging. The need for technology to play a strategic role in every nook and cranny of the enterprise has resulted in a far-flung, ever-more-complex, and dynamic technology stack - that you must operate flawlessly to deliver competitive advantage.
LogicMonitor: How to Improve Operational Efficiency with LM Intelligence
Now more than ever, IT organizations are playing a more strategic role in driving critical business outcomes and accelerating innovation. This can be challenging when you are grappling with a mix of on-premises, public and private cloud, and other complex infrastructure environments, yet all eyes are on IT departments to deliver results faster while reducing costs.
Security operations center, Part 3: Finding your weakest link
Any organization with data assets is a possible target for an attacker. Hackers use various forms of advanced cyberattack techniques to obtain valuable company data; in fact, a study by the University of Maryland showed that a cyberattack takes place every 39 seconds, or 2,244 times a day on average. This number has increased exponentially since the COVID-19 pandemic forced most employees to work remotely, and drastically increased the attack surface of organizations around the world.
5 reasons integrated patch and vulnerability management mitigates risks swiftly and efficiently
ESG research on cyber risk management, which involved 340 cybersecurity professionals, revealed that 40 percent felt tracking patch and vulnerability management over time was their biggest challenge.
Exoprise Office 365 Transactable SaaS Offer Available in the Microsoft Azure Marketplace
Gain access to Exoprise CloudReady and Service Watch and take advantage of Azure's scalability, reliability, and agility.
Migrating our Blog back to our website
Two years ago I decided to migrate our Monitive blog to a Medium publication called Once Upon A Site. This happened for several reasons, including the fact that we are getting more readers on Medium than we were getting on our blog at the time. Of course, all while ignoring all there is to SEO. This was a good call at the time.
Script Writing: A Crash Course on User Journey Selectors
User Journeys are a powerful tool for ensuring key processes across your site are working correctly. They follow a scripted set of instructions to interact with your pages like a human visitor does – and to identify issues as they come up. We offer a “Managed Service” for looking after your User Journey scripts, or you might prefer to use our script builder to write your own.
How to set up a Grafana development environment on a Windows PC using WSL
The Grafana development environment runs on Linux, so most engineers have Linux installed on their machines. The Macintosh OS already supports Linux out of the box, so it’s straightforward to start up dev environments on a Mac.