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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.
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.
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Breaking New Ground with Relationship-Based Observability
In recent years, the concept of Observability has arisen in an attempt to address the persistent risk to a company's digital experiences and business applications as IT environments continue to become more complex and more dynamic. Relationship-Based Observability breaks new ground by adding 3 new capabilities to help companies detect, prevent, and rapidly resolve incidents. Read this white paper to learn about what's missing in your observability solutions and how you can close the gaps.
Redefining Observability
A 3-Step Approach for Gaining Control in Fast-Moving IT Landscapes The ever increasing complexity in your IT landscape is diminishing your company's productivity. As a response, many teams use 'observability' to get control over the fast-moving IT landscapes. However, when IT incidents strike, actionable insights to resolve incidents instantly are still siloed. Traditional observability is falling short and still too siloed. In this white paper, you will learn how you can improve traditional observability and find the right strategy to prevent outages and crush your MTTR.
IT security under attack: A typical day in the life of an IT admin or security analyst
The job of IT admins and IT security analysts are, without a doubt, some of the most important jobs in any company. When things are running smoothly, it is easy for everyone to forget they exist. However, the moment things go askew, everyone points fingers at them. IT security professionals are expected to know everything. Most of them are self-taught and have learned on-the-job. Over time, experience has turned them into battle-hardened soldiers.
Twitter Outage and Support Feeds Integrated with CloudReady Internet Outage Monitoring
Twitter as a social media channel has obviously taken the world by storm. Everything that happens and is trending around the globe takes place or is reported on Twitter. Additionally, most tech and cloud providers offer outage and support feeds through Twitter as a way of communicating problems and notifying customers. Example technology companies include Microsoft for Microsoft 365 Status, Azure and their products. Also Internet Service Providers like Comcast, CenturyLink and more.
The Easiest Way to Monitor Node.js: Automatic Instrumentation
Monitoring for your Node.js apps can be hard. The tricky part is understanding what you need to monitor, instrumenting your code, and then making sense of all the data that’s been emitted. (That’s almost every part you might say 😅 ). At AppSignal, we dogfood our product and understand the pain users feel ourselves. The key points we focus on are the ease of use, flexibility, and developer experience.
Best Alternatives to Azure Monitor
Due to rapid cloud adoption and with never-ending user requirements, the Azure architecture might become complex and you might eventually lose sight of the overall cloud estate and how it relates to each other. Since the Azure portal was designed in a technology vertical silo and it has near zero application visibility, it is not possible to monitor them as a business application in the Azure portal.
How to implement CFEngine Custom Promise Types in Python
This tutorial focuses on how to write a promise module, implementing a new CFEngine promise type. It assumes you already know how to install promise modules and use custom promise types, as shown in the previous blog post.
Outlier Detection: The Different Types of Outliers
Time series anomaly detection is a tool that detects unusual behavior, whether it's hurtful or advantageous for the business. In either case, quick outlier detection and outlier analysis can enable you to adjust your course quickly, before you lose customers, revenue, or an opportunity. The first step is knowing what types of outliers you’re up against. Chief Data Scientist Ira Cohen, co-founder of Autonomous Business Monitoring platform Anodot, covers the three main categories of outliers and how you'll see them arise in a business context.