We’ve received a number of inquiries recently about how to receive notifications when an out of stock product becomes available on an e-commerce site so we thought we’d take the time to provide an overview of this use case and a few ways in which one could set this up on ChangeTower.

As of September 2017, every Certificate Authority is obligated to check the CAA DNS records for a domain it is about to issue a certificate to. This gives more control to the domain owner and can limit which Certificate Authorities are allowed to issue certificates.

We’re happy to introduce our newest monitoring feature - Database Check – that is easy to use, crystal-clear to understand and designed to get you through your website ‘critical hours’ as smoothly as possible.

Now Deployment tracking is available for both APM and Browser products in Atatus. The deployment tracking is one of the most awaited feature in Atatus. It provides better visibility of your software releases for both back-end and front-end apps. When you deploy a new version of your app, you can notify Atatus with source revision or git SHA or application version. Then you will be able to see how new deployment affect your app performances from previous deployment.

Previously, we have introduced one of the “Check site instantly ” board functions - DNSBL - which helps you find out whether your server is blacklisted before it gets out of control. We’re happy to announce that this tool has just got even more awesome! Now you can use our DNSBL check tool as a one-time job or on a regular basis. It means you can keep your IP address in a continuous check against dozens of popular blacklists.

As was mentioned before, AgentSlug.com is getting to be refreshed with new functionalities like content checker (Full content test). Since we are also working on a brand new web app, it’s a good time to give you some heads up on the current development status.

Application performance management (APM)—sometimes referred to as application performance monitoring—is used to refer to monitoring tools that allow IT, developers, and business leaders to monitor their backend application architecture to resolve performance issues and bottlenecks in a timely manner.

8 months and 116,000 lines of code after starting out we have finally completed the development of Downtime Monkey. There is no doubt that it has turned into a bigger project than we first expected and we're very happy to have reached this stage.

We’re excited to announce that ChangeTower users can now monitor specific sub-sections of web pages with our new partial-page monitoring tools and visual change detection engine. Our users will now be able to utilize the full power of the ChangeTower engine to monitor specific sub-sections of web pages for a user-selectable degree of change.

There is a tremendous administrative burden places on businesses that rely on responding to (and winning!) RFPs for new business. Not only do you have to go through the painful process of filling out long applications and endure long wait times, it’s also extremely hard to stay on top of if / when new business is put out to bid.