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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.
A Lesson for Every Startup from Bitcoin's 2017 Outage
In December 2017, significant declines were recorded on the exchange rate of the world’s most popular digital currency—Bitcoin. Investors who wanted to sell their currencies quickly, for fear of further declines, turned to the biggest cryptocurrency stock exchange, known as Coinbase. At Coinbase, they did not seem stressed. Their service was unavailable for several hours, and investors switched to selling their Bitcoins on other exchanges.
Understanding audit logs - Stack Doctor
In this episode of Stack Doctor, Yuri Grinshteyn talks about audit logs. Specifically, he goes over what is logged by default and what audit logs you have control over. Additionally, he goes over the three kinds of data access audit logs and their perspective functions.
Tigera: Kubernetes - Automating Access Controls When Connecting to External Resources
No matter where you are in your Kubernetes journey, eventually you'll have to connect your k8s cluster to external resources like databases, cloud services, and third-party APIs. A majority of existing workloads are non-Kubernetes, and at some point, your Kubernetes applications will need to communicate with them. Before you can do that, Security teams, as well as database and application owners, will require you to limit access to specific individuals or groups - and nearly every application has dependencies external to Kubernetes that require some level of access control.
Rancher: Kubernetes and Rancher - Free Weekly Online Training
This free weekly session is hosted by a Rancher technical expert, and provides a great starting point for new users to get a hands-on overview of Kubernetes and how to set up a Kubernetes deployment on Rancher.
Rancher: Intro to Rio Online Training: Kubernetes Application Deployment Engine
Rio is an application deployment engine built on top of Kubernetes, Istio, Knative, and Prometheus. You can use it to build, test, deploy, scale, and version stateless apps on any standard Kubernetes cluster, which means that you can run your apps the way you want to without having to spend time wiring them together. Join this session to see a live demo of the product features and capabilities.
New feature: API monitoring with Custom Metrics
Imagine that your API response includes data that you would like to track and get regular reports on, and you may even want to generate alerts when values hit certain thresholds. You’re already monitoring for API performance and function, but how about grabbing the other data at the same time. Wouldn’t it be nice to capture the data, evaluate it, and store it in your Uptrends account? You can with Uptrends’ newest Multi-Step API feature, Custom Metrics.
Five worthy reads: Why AI-as-a-Service, or AIaaS, is quickly growing in popularity
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. Most companies use some type of “as-a-service” solution to optimize output, and this week, we shed some light on the latest “as-a-service” trend to hit the market, AI-as-a-Service.
10 killer keystrokes that'll help you work faster
I remember it like it was yesterday, but it was 20 years ago. As I approached my boss’s desk, I saw her do something amazing: she made a smaller window appear on top of her screen, displaying the icons of her open applications. She quickly toggled and selected another. In an instant, she’d gone from Outlook to Excel. No mousing around, no hunting to open the app. I squawked. What the heck was that? That, my friends, was my alt-tab Eureka! moment.
GitKraken vs Tower
The increasing popularity of Git in the software industry has led to the introduction of numerous tools designed to make the version control experience faster and more intuitive. The most notable tool for enhancing a developer’s Git workflow is a graphical user interface (GUI). Most Git GUIs on the market today offer a variety of features for simplifying Git commands into quick actions; many also have a heavy focus on making collaboration easier.
7 Important Service Desk Metrics to Measure
Service desk or IT teams are critical to organisations for ensuring business continuity and service delivery. Hence, it becomes important for IT organizations to use a slew of metrics to measure how efficient their service desk is. With the recent advancement in IT Service Management (ITSM), the reporting capabilities offer multiple KPI metrics that can be measured and monitored. So, with the increase in service desk metrics, it becomes even more difficult to zero down on which metrics to measure.