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How to Migrate from Magento 1 to Magento 2

A growing number of online retailers are now migrating to Magento 2 from the earlier version, Magento 1. This trend of migration is driven both by functional advantages and strategic planning as Magento will stop supporting its 1.x versions after 2020. That’s the reason why so many business owners are upgrading their online stores with the latest technology.

What Is Real User Monitoring? How It Works, Examples, Best Practices, and More

Real User Monitoring is a type of performance monitoring that captures and analyzes each transaction by users of a website or application. It’s also known as real user measurement, real user metrics, end-user experience monitoring, or simply RUM. It’s used to gauge user experience, including key metrics like load time and transaction paths, and it’s an important component of application performance management (APM).

7 Online Proofing Tools to Make Life of a Designer Easier

When working on web and graphic designs there can be so much back and forth in emails and messages. There will be lots of email threads to keep up with. The review and approval process taking several turns. So, what do you do? Ask any designer about the pain they go through when it comes to the approval process. Luckily, the technology clearly will never disappoint any of us.

Using the Elastic APM Java Agent on Kubernetes

Elasticsearch and the rest of the Elastic Stack are commonly used for log and metric aggregation in various environments, including Kubernetes. In addition, the Elastic Stack is frequently being used for uptime tracking, with Heartbeat, as well as Application Performance Monitoring (APM), with agents supporting common programming languages, including Java.

Top 10 predictions for AI in IT operations

This article originally appeared in TechBeacon. Gartner first coined the term "AIOps" a few years ago to describe "artificial intelligence for IT operations," and over the last few years, IT operations monitoring tool vendors have begun incorporating AIOps features into their products. Now AIOps tools are commonplace, but many IT leaders remain cautious about using these relatively new capabilities.

Building Auvik Into Your MSP's Standard Operating Procedures

Standard operating procedures—more commonly known as SOPs—are written, step-by-step instructions that describe how to perform a routine activity. While you can create an SOP for anything, SOPs that outline technical procedures are a well-known path to increasing efficiency in your MSP business. Whether you’ve got existing SOPs you’re interested in updating, or you’re looking for some basic steps to build brand new SOPs around, you’ve come to the right place.

Monitoring URLs With Query Strings

January is a good time for bug-fixing and we've spent the last couple of weeks making small tweaks and improvements to Downtime Monkey. We've focused on the kind of bugs that aren't urgent but shouldn't be overlooked and aim to continue this for a couple more weeks before starting development of the next major feature. We'll document each change in its own post. First up is an improvement to the range of webpages available for monitoring: webpages with query strings can now be monitored...

S3 Bucket Lambda Function

AWS has a lot of services, and they all generate logs. A lot of logs. We’ve worked hard to make sure you can capture logs from every source and service on AWS, and today we’re happy to announce the final piece of our AWS logging puzzle: LogDNA’s S3 Collector integration. It’s an easy-to-use Lambda function that lets you ingest any AWS logs that get dumped to S3 – like logs from CloudFront and ELB.

Here's How the Internet of Things is Transforming Healthcare

Industry 4.0 technology is transforming industry all over the world. Digital innovations such as data, virtual reality, automation, and robotics are all helping brands create products and services and deliver them to customers in better and more efficient ways than ever before. One of the most useful elements of Industry 4.0 technology comes from the Internet of Things.