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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.
Security Log Defined
The most comprehensive and best-organized resource for Windows security events and auditing on the web. Discover how events correlate using insertion strings and review the associated audit instructions.
ManageEngine: Learn the gray areas of privacy compliance from the viral Monopoly Man
IT teams can easily get lost while addressing specific requirements of particular regulations like the GDPR, or when management shifts their focus to a new regulation. To help IT admins tasked with managing compliance obligations understand the importance of privacy compliance in today's competitive market, ManageEngine is bringing the Monopoly Man to the IT community.
ManageEngine: How analytics for change management process can save you millions
The onset of rapid technological advancements, emerging business opportunities, mergers and acquisitions, and the anticipation of crisis situations steer IT organizations to embrace change rapidly. In the wake of such changes, it's imperative that organizations have a powerful change management and implementation policy, without which they stand to lose precious business hours, money, and above all, their reputation.
ManageEngine: Top 5 IT security red flags that indicate you're vulnerable to insider threats
According to Verizon's 2018 Data Breach Investigations Report*, one in five breaches are caused due to negligence. Step-up your security game by avoiding simple pitfalls in managing user privileges and accesses to plug potential security gaps.
NiCE Oracle Management Pack 5.00
Oracle database availability and performance is key. Gain insight into what happens within your Oracle environment. Using the NiCE Oracle Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM, advanced monitoring has never been easier. The NiCE Oracle Management Pack smart algorithm determines problems and their severity way upfront. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.
Track the status of your SLOs with the new monitor uptime and SLO widget
Service level objectives are an important tool for maintaining application performance, ensuring a consistent customer experience, and setting expectations about service performance for both internal and external users. We are very pleased to announce the availability of a new monitor uptime and SLO widget that makes it simple to monitor the status of your SLOs and communicate that status to your teams, executives, or external customers.
User experience monitoring with Datadog browser tests
Datadog’s new automated browser tests enable you to automate your user experience monitoring and ensure that your users can complete actions like signing up for a new account or adding items to a cart. Anyone on your team can record and automate multistep browser tests in minutes. Once you create a test, Datadog uses machine learning to detect changes to your application and automatically update your tests accordingly.
Correlate request logs with traces automatically
When your users are encountering errors or high latency in your application, drilling down to view the logs from a problematic request can reveal exactly what went wrong. By pulling together all the logs pertaining to a given request, you can see in rich detail how it was handled from beginning to end so you can quickly diagnose the issue.
Monitor AIX with the Datadog Unix Agent
Even in an era where container, serverless, and cloud-computing technologies garner considerable attention, many companies continue to run a sizeable share of their mission-critical applications on highly resilient, fault-tolerant systems such as IBM AIX on Power-series hardware. AIX, one of the most popular Unix-based operating systems, is trusted by large companies that process critical data such as medical health records and banking transactions.
How to Install the ELK Stack on AWS: A Step-By-Step Guide
The ELK Stack is a great open-source stack for log aggregation and analytics. It stands for Elasticsearch (a NoSQL database and search server), Logstash (a log shipping and parsing service), and Kibana (a web interface that connects users with the Elasticsearch database and enables visualization and search options for system operation users). With a large open-source community, ELK has become quite popular, and it is a pleasure to work with.