It seems like email has been around forever, and we all take it for granted. For many of us, it has been forever, for email has been around since the 1960s in various forms. By 1995 SMTP, POP3, and IMAP email protocols became the standard. To make sure your staff and customers can continue to take email for granted, you should use Email Server Monitoring from Uptrends. Uptrends now supports IMAP server monitoring.

Real User Monitoring, or RUM, is a type of monitoring technology for digital businesses that analyzes customers’ digital experiences by looking at exactly how online visitors are interacting with a website or application, analyzing everything from page load events to AJAX requests to frontend application crashes. The most commonly known example of RUM would be Google Analytics, or GA, which tracks certain spectrums of the interaction between your user and your website or webapp.

Grafana is an open source tool, with Apache 2.0 license, designed by Torkel Ödegaard (who is still in charge of its development and maintenance) and created in January 2014. This Swedish developer began his career in the .NET field and since 2012, until nowadays, he continues offering development and consulting services through this popular proprietary platform, while developing free software at the same time.

Onboarding new clients can be a very time-consuming process for MSPs. To get the lay of the land, you typically need to make the trip to the client site, crawl through switch closets, perform a site survey, and complete many more manual tasks. But even after that investment of time and resources, sometimes you don’t get the full picture.

Within a Linux network or development system, launching a limited set of applications or services (often known as microservices) in a self-sustaining container or sandboxed environment is sometimes necessary. A container enables administrators to decouple a specific set of software applications from the operating system and have them run within a clean, minimal, and isolated Linux environment of their own.

“What??? Fully end of life by April, you say? As in, ‘in-six-weeks’ April? Well, there go my weekends for a while. When will we ever get this right?” We’ve all been there at some point, completely under water, late on key projects, having to fight to get our SLA and security KPIs green and completely forget that time is running and now, again, core components are nearing their end of life. Here at Nexthink, we don’t want you to have to go through that.

We are pleased to announce the availability of Kamon APM, a hosted APM solution built from the ground up to work nicely with Kamon and along with it we are launching a Free Starter Plan. Starting today there are no excuses for your team to say that you can’t have metrics and distributed tracing in production becase, well, you can get it for free!

By 2022, Gartner predicts that 40% of large enterprises will adopt AIOps solutions to cope with never-ending alert floods and ensure faster recovery from disruptive IT outages. The AIOps market is experiencing rapid growth with explosive enterprise adoption, accelerated revenue growth and continued investments from IT operations players.

Troubleshooting is a critical skill for developers and DevOps. As our software grows more sophisticated, our problems do too. The cloud adds a new layer of complexity since we need to know how to find a problem that doesn’t occur locally, but has cropped up on a remote system.