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How to Identify DNS Issues: The IT Handbook

In the world of the Internet, where every click, request, and data transfer relies on seamless connectivity, Domain Name System (DNS) issues can be the silent disruptors that bring the entire digital ecosystem to a halt. As organizations and individuals become increasingly dependent on the Internet for their day-to-day operations, understanding and troubleshooting DNS problems have become essential skills for IT professionals.

What Is an Incident Response Team?

The vast number of threats lately lurking in cyberspace means that for cybersecurity teams, it's not a question of if an incident will occur but when. Whether it's a service outage, a data breach, a ransomware attack, or some other disturbance, organizations are bound to face security incidents eventually — the only question is if they're prepared.

The Three FinOps Phases for MVP Success

Your FinOps foundations are down in your company’s cloud (woohoo!), but what comes next? How can you boost your MVP success in the cloud with your FinOps strategy? In this blog post, we’ll briefly dive into the three phases of your FinOps for top-notch implementation from beginning to end. Need a refresher on setting up an MVP FinOps framework for your cloud? In part 1 of our series, we’ll show you how it’s done!

Omdia's Top 5 IT Predictions for 2024 and Beyond

As we look toward 2024, the IT landscape is poised for a significant transformation, influenced by evolving business needs, technological advancements, and economic factors. The insights from the “Leading IT Trends for 2024” report, a collaborative effort between Omdia and NinjaOne, offer a look into the future of IT, highlighting key areas that organizations must focus on.

Context isn't just for Christmas

Everyone has their own toys to play with this Christmas, but we all have more fun when we share. The same applies to the tools we use, the data we collect, and the insights we act on. In this video, I'll show you how one of our valued (and definitely real) customers “North Pole Industries” utilizes SquaredUp to share the magic of observability.

Uptime.com Achieves Strong Sales and Sustains Rapid Growth & Innovation in 2023

The service company continues to demonstrate market superiority in website and service monitoring, solidifying its status as the preferred provider for unified, dependable solutions for maintaining website availability. PALO ALTO, Calif., December 20, 2023 (Newswire.com) – Uptime.com, a global leader in website monitoring services, proudly announces tremendous sales results for the last two quarters of 2023, marking a new pinnacle in its growth trajectory.

Monitor Your NGINX Webserver with Telegraf

Monitoring your instance of NGINX gives you insight into your webserver's requests and connections. These insights can help in identifying performance bottlenecks, optimizing configurations, and ensuring efficient load handling. Monitoring all layers of your technology infrastructure allows for the early detection of potential problems such as server overload, disk space shortages, or network issues.

Three Pillars of Observability [And Beyond]

Observability is often defined in the context of three pillars: logs, metrics, and traces. Modern-day cloud-native applications are complex and dynamic. To avoid surprises and performance issues, you need a robust observability stack. But is observability limited to collecting logs, metrics, and traces? How is observability evolving to make our systems more observable? In this tutorial, we cover.

Five Tips for Monitoring Your Cloud Application

Page load time is inversely related to page views and conversion rates. While probably not a controversial statement, as the causality is intuitive, there is empirical data from industry leaders such as Amazon, Google, and Bing to back it in High Scalability and O’Reilly’s Radar, for example. As web technology has become much more complex over the last decade, the issue of performance has remained a challenge as it relates to user experience.