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Slow is the new downtime. What you once feared from a downed website — decreased conversion rates, lower page ranks, abandoned carts — now applies to a slow-loading experience. Problem is, slow is more nuanced than downtime; that is, while downtime is binary — the site’s either up or it isn’t — slow is in the eye of its beholder. It’s why asking what makes a slow website gets the same shrug from a developer as asking them how long an afternoon is.

Microsoft’s Internet Information Services (IIS) is a well-known web server that hosts web applications and is used in many sectors like banking, healthcare, logistics, E-commerce, etc. It is the backbone of many IT Infrastructures but if it encounters issues it can cause websites to experience higher response times. Hence, end-users often leave the website. A web server plays a vital role in an organization’s IT infrastructure.

Netdata is architected on every level, across both the open-source Netdata Agent and Netdata Cloud, to help you own every layer of your monitoring experience. With this design, all metrics data collected by the Netdata Agent stays distributed on your node, but you also leverage Netdata Cloud’s dashboards and multi-node visualizations to view the health and performance of an entire infrastructure from a single application.

Flowmon Anomaly Detection System from Kemp now contains Indicators of Compromise (IoC) for the SUNBURST trojan specifically. Users of the Flowmon network detection and response (NDR) tool can check if they are under attack and set up measures to detect SUNBURST. This December, the world shook at the news of several US government bodies falling victim to a highly sophisticated attack.