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Prevent security issues when monitoring with SNMP family of protocols

Simple Network Management Protocols, SNMP, refers to protocols family used to probe and control various network devices. It includes three protocol versions (v1, v2c, v3), all of those supported by IPHost Network Monitor. SNMP is a popular means of watching network devices of any kind (nowadays literally every device with an IP address can support SNMP); however, there are typical problems users can encounter when using SNMP-enabled devices in local or global network.

The Top 8 Best Practices for Windows File Server Auditing

Windows file server auditing is a great way to monitor what is going on with all the files stored on your company’s servers. You can find out who is accessing files, creating new files, deleting files, copying files, and moving files. To tap into the benefits of Windows file server auditing, you must first understand and use audit policy best practices.

NGINX 502 Bad Gateway: PHP-FPM

This post is part of a series on troubleshooting NGINX 502 Bad Gateway errors. If you’re not using PHP-FPM, check out our other article on troubleshooting NGINX 502s with Gunicorn as a backend. PHP-FastCGI Process Manager (PHP-FPM) is a daemon for handling web server requests for PHP applications. In production, PHP-FPM is often deployed behind an NGINX web server. NGINX proxies web requests and passes them on to PHP-FPM worker processes that execute the PHP application.

New Relic vs. Scout: which is right for you?

There's no type of monitoring tool that can get to the heart of a performance problem faster than Application Performance Management (APM). If you're making this decision, you may be choosing between New Relic and Scout. There are cases where New Relic is a better fit, clear cases where Scout fits like a glove, and some murky situations as well. Where do you fall? Below, I'll summarize the factors to consider when choosing your best APM product.

How to visualize data with Azure Monitor

So far, we’ve learnt how to collect data (part 2) and pull it into Azure Log Analytics (part 3), as well as how to actually work with the data using Kusto (part 4). Now it’s time to explore how we can visualize this data, make dashboards, share them with other teams in our organizations and so on. Unfortunately, dashboarding in Azure is not very sophisticated, and neither is it centralized.

10 Price Monitoring Tools for Ecommerce

Dynamic pricing has become the norm in online retailing. The dynamic pricing method is successful in attracting customer’s attention and also increases profitability for online retailers. It requires you to have a large amount of data in hand like competitors’ pricing, details concerning products and customers, and difference between supply and demand.

APIs and API monitoring basics for project managers

If you’re a developer, you know all about APIs. However, if you’re in a non-technical role, you may not have the information you need to make educated decisions about the APIs your company offers and uses. In this article, we will take you through the API basics: what they are, how they work, why they’re important, and what you can do to protect your business’s reliance on API performance and uptime.

Are Your Remote Workers Working?

Whether it is due to the scare of the Coronavirus, inability to hire locally with the competitive job market, or the growing trend of offering flexible workstyles, more organizations are offering work from home or remote working options. As someone who has worked remotely for the past 10 years, I know more often than not my days start sooner than most in the office and end later as I have no commute to worry about.

Application Monitoring for All

It’s common for modern businesses to rely on 2,000+ custom-developed applications and it requires substantial cost, time and effort to ensure 24/7 optimal performance of those applications. IT Ops teams depend on advanced application performance monitoring (APM) to scale up key business capabilities and boost innovation. But the APM tools that provide the deepest insights for critical applications are extremely expensive and are cumbersome to deploy.