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27 things enterprises can learn from startups to increase productivity

How do you bring the productivity of small, fast-moving startups into enterprises with massive organizations and heavy regulatory obligations? It starts with analyzing and understanding the workflows and approaches startups use to achieve world-class agility, efficiency and innovation. Then you need to prioritize these “recipes” based on the impact they can have on your enterprise.

Uptime and API Monitoring Improvements

Here at Honeybadger we want to give you a complete picture of your application's health. That's why we include uptime & latency monitoring with all our plans. We've been hard at work making our uptime system even better; making it suitable not only to check web pages, but also APIs. Many of our customers have found Honeybadger Uptime to be a great replacement for NewRelic's alerts, which were recently removed from their more affordable plans.

Integrate PRTG with AlertOps to supercharge your network monitoring

PRTG is a central component of network monitoring. It’s used to monitor the state, health, and performance of everything from servers to network devices. PRTG Network Monitor is an all-in-one monitoring solution that collects and displays current status information from your IT infrastructure. However, PRTG focuses only on monitoring for incidents, so you know when there’s a problem. It’s an outstanding, specialized tool. That’s why AlertOps works so well with PRTG.

Auditing DNS Server Changes on Windows 2008/2008R2/2012 with EventSentry

If you’re running Windows 2008 (R2) or 2012 then setting up DNS auditing requires a few steps. Thankfully it’s a one-time process and shouldn’t take more than a few minutes. On the EventSentry side a pre-built package with all the necessary rules is available for download and included with the latest installer.

What do Conversion Ratios have to do with Site Reliability?

You have no doubt heard of Google Analytics and will be familiar with conversion or goal tracking. If you haven’t, it is a method used to measure goals and KPI’s. That is of course the well known use case, but very often we see web teams using conversion tracking to also identify site problems. Many eCommerce teams will monitor their sites sales conversion ratio and if it drops they will instinctively know that there is a problem.