In the spirit of Halloween, imagine a world where goblins, ghosts, and ghastly waits lurk in the shadows of your website monitoring. In the world of automation, nothing is more terrifying than the sneaky presence of ‘waits’. They may seem harmless and solve problems in the short term but in reality, they can distort the very essence of monitoring.

Zero trust in the cloud is no longer a luxury in the modern digital age but an absolute necessity. Learn how Kentik secures cloud workloads with actionable views of inbound, outbound, and denied traffic.

Hyperautomation is a holistic business-driven approach to automation that allows organizations to identify, examine, and automate almost all business processes. It involves the orchestration of disparate systems across various departments and delivers efficiency. Hyperautomation helps businesses leverage automation and enable a faster, more efficient, and effortless functioning of organizations.

Many PagerDuty customers create their own apps to help them manage their PagerDuty environments. Teams might have any number of workflows that might benefit from a custom application. A PagerDuty admin might want to be able to load CSV files with new users and their contact information into PagerDuty when new teams join the platform, or load new services before they are released to production.

From an IT perspective, technologists generally agree that the ability to monitor and have visibility into the IT stack across every one of their applications is essential with the now-permanent remote and hybrid work models. It also stems from the fact that digital transformation and IT growth has accelerated by seven years since the pandemic in 2020, analysts say.

As a developer I love automation, Whether it’s orchestrating a smart home or optimizing developer toolchains. Automation injects efficiency into my daily routine, simplifying intricate processes and eliminating repetitive tasks. Especially when it comes to toolchains, I’m constantly on the lookout for ways to boost coding workflows. Cloud Development Kits (CDKs) brought with them a new era of streamlined developer toolchains.

Besides monitoring your site's uptime, Oh Dear offers many other checks to monitor all kinds of aspects of your web app. One of those checks is our DNS check. Whenever we detect problems with your DNS records or when one of the DNS records changes, we can notify you. By default, we only monitor the DNS records of the domain you are monitoring. So when you're monitoring example.com, we'll only monitor the records of that hostname. A CNAME record is a special kind of DNS record.

In the world of business management and performance tracking, OKRs, KPIs, and Metrics are common terms thrown around. Each plays a distinct role in helping organizations define their vision, measure their progress, and improve their performance. Let's dive deep into understanding the nuanced differences between these three concepts.

Simply put: Observability is the ability to measure the internal states of a system by examining its outputs. A system is considered “observable” if the current state can be estimated by only using information from outputs, namely sensor data. More than just a buzzword, the term “observability” originated decades ago with control theory (which is about describing and understanding self-regulating systems).

In today’s fast-paced digital world, the importance of network monitoring is growing by leaps and bounds. With real-time network monitoring, businesses can transform their user experiences and drive unstoppable growth. Whether you run a small business or a large corporation, incorporating network monitoring tools can help in the smooth functioning of your networks. Join us as we unveil the top benefits of network monitoring in the modern business landscape.