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8 Mobile Apps That Help You Create Content With Unique Features

Creating content for your website is like decorating the interior of your new house, if you don’t get it right, you would have your visitors dissatisfied and see them leave! Whether it is business or life, time is of the essence and the biggest currency in modern times. So, how can you create unique content, coping up with your busy schedule and other projects? It is quite simple, and you can go mobile! How?

Weekly and Monthly Alert Insights

SRE and Security teams rely heavily on alerts to know whether their systems are experiencing issues and to prevent any future outages. At LogDNA, customers can set alerts that trigger when specific logs match (presence alerts) or set an alert to go off if there are expected lines that haven’t come through (absence alerts). These alerts can be set up with various channels so you can be alerted in the product of your choice (Slack, Email, PagerDuty, etc).

Securing Sensu 101

Because monitoring requires some degree of access to your applications, it’s important that you take certain steps to ensure the right amount of access without compromising your app’s security. In this first in a series of posts, we’ll go over some high-level best practices to securing Sensu, followed by a webinar later this month which will offer a deeper dive into setting up certificates.

2019 Magecart Timeline

We break down the timeline of the number one threat to ecommerce sites today – Magecart! This timeline includes all the significant Magecart attacks in 2019. With 4,800 formjacking attacks each month alone, this timeline only represents a small proportion of attacks reported in the public domain in 2019. Detect Web-skimming, Formjacking, and Supply Chain attacks before a Data Breach occurs with Magecart detection.

Everything You Need to Know About the Grafana-Prometheus-GitLab Integration

You probably missed it. Don’t feel bad. It was just one small paragraph, buried in the GitLab 11.9 Omnibus Release Notes: Grafana is now bundled in our Omnibus package, making it easier than ever to understand how your instance is performing. “Omnibus” is what GitLab calls its main installation package, and “Grafana” is the time-series visualization software, but what does this paragraph even mean?

Pros and Cons of Using structure.sql in Your Ruby on Rails Application

In today’s post, we’ll cover the significant differences and benefits of using structure.sql versus the default schema.rb schema formats in your Ruby on Rails application. In a data-driven world, knowing how to exploit all of your database’s rich features can make the difference between a successful and unsuccessful enterprise.

Comparison of Cron Monitoring Services (January 2020)

If you are looking for a hosted cron job monitoring service, good news: there many options to choose from! In this post I’m comparing a selection of the more popular ones: Cronitor, Healthchecks.io, Cronhub, Site24x7, CronAlarm, PushMon and Dead Man’s Snitch. How I picked the services for comparison: I searched for “cron monitoring” on Google and picked the top results in their order of appearance. I was looking specifically for hosted, SaaS-style services.

NiCE VMware Management Pack 5.20

The NiCE VMware Management Pack for Microsoft SCOM delivers first-rate monitoring for your business critical, highly dynamical virtualized environments. Taming the beast of VMware service outages has never been easier. Leverage your existing investment, reduce costs, save time and build efficiencies that will last beyond your expectations.

Welcoming Sentry's New CEO

This year marks the 8th year since we incorporated Sentry. Every year has created a new set of opportunities as we’ve expanded both our product and our customer base. We’re fortunate to be considered the market leader in error monitoring, and are aggressively building on top of that success to make software better for everyone. Our rapid revenue and customer growth, combined with recent funding, has given us the exciting opportunity to more broadly fix application monitoring.