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Feature Spotlight: Domain Blacklist Check

Domain Blacklist checks from Uptime.com will check your site once each day against approximately 100 of the most well-known spam blacklists to determine if your mail server appears on them. Your domain may be flagged as a spam website for sending too many emails, for sending spam emails, or due to repeated reports by email recipients that the site is spam.

Diving Deeper into the Rabbit Hole with Alice - Logz.io's Slack Bot

The adoption of ChatOps — i.e. connecting an organization’s software delivery cycle and day to day operations to chat channels — has grown over the past few years. Facilitating cross-team communication and collaboration, Slack has become the most popular tool for implementing ChatOps-driven work practices.

Diving Deeper into the Rabbit Hole with Alice — Logz.io’s Slack Bot

The adoption of ChatOps — i.e. connecting an organization’s software delivery cycle and day to day operations to chat channels — has grown over the past few years. Facilitating cross-team communication and collaboration, Slack has become the most popular tool for implementing ChatOps-driven work practices.

4 Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Best Practices To Enhance End User Experience

I’ve seen so many new types of infrastructure technologies impact the performance of the modern data center. All-flash technologies help consolidate systems, virtualization helps to deliver powerful workloads to a variety of users, and even convergence has helped remove legacy from the data center. Most of all, these solutions are all coupled with the cloud to really help an organization become agile and much more efficient.

Join the Discussion on Sentry's Streamlined SDKs

If you use Sentry, you’re probably familiar with our SDKs. While they aren’t the only reason for Sentry’s success, they do play a very important role, from the first time an error is thrown to the moment you fix the bug. SDKs are often like political figures (editor’s note: there are so many things we resisted saying here) — you don’t notice them if they do a good job. Jokes aside, there are very few expectations for an SDK.

The secret to thousands of contributions to the Mattermost open source project

Three years after launching, there are over 1,000 open source projects on GitHub that integrate with Mattermost. Our contributors have also added hundreds of amazing features to Mattermost. We’re reflecting on how we got here—and what we’re doing next to build an even stronger community for our contributors.

Use Case: Using Maintenance Windows to Set Up Alert Schedules

For many of our users reacting to downtime data sent from a monitoring system such as StatusCake.com is a 24 hour job, and the process incorporates many staff who will have varying responsibilities, and sometimes work quite different hours. This is particularly true of companies who run “follow-the-sun” with their global dev-ops teams picking up the baton from the last as their time zone starts its working day.

Migrating to 2.0: the good, the bad & the ugly

The Sensu 2.0 release is dropping in October, and we’re already excited! As the version numbering implies, Sensu 2.0 includes significant changes from Sensu 1.x. Not only has the software been entirely re-engineered in Go — easing deployment significantly — the exposed APIs and internal data structures have changed to accommodate new features.