This month, we are excited to deliver additional AppDynamics functionalities across observability, intelligence, and usability that will help enterprise companies gain end-to-end intelligence across customer experience and application performance.

Companies migrating to the cloud need to ensure they have a strong security posture and can meet compliance requirements. Along with ensuring compliance, companies also are faced with the challenge of tying together multiple security tools that generate a high volume of event data across disparate interfaces and platforms. To help address this challenge, a new security service was introduced at AWS re:Invent 2018: AWS Security Hub.

When we think about WAN monitoring we usually start from the basics: the behaviour of remote communication links will directly affect the performance of our applications. Therefore, we understand that if traffic over the communications link experiences high levels of latency this will negatively impact the response time that our users observe when accessing the applications.

This year, at Sumo Logic’s third annual user conference, Illuminate 2018, we presented Sumo Logic Notebooks as a way to do data science within the Sumo Logic platform. Sumo Logic Notebooks integrate Sumo Logic data, data science notebooks and common machine learning frameworks.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2018 was an incredible event. We had many exciting announcements – LogDNA’s new partnership with IBM Cloud, our recent round of funding, as well as great conversations, product demos, fun giveaways, and even surprise gifts for loyal customers, our booth was jam packed.

Our industry has long been relying on microservice-based architecture to deliver software faster and safer. The advent and ubiquity of microservices naturally paved the way for container technology, empowering us to rethink how we build and deploy our applications. Docker exploded onto the scene in 2013, and, for companies focusing on modernizing their infrastructure and cloud migration, a tool like Docker is critical to shipping applications quickly, at scale.

Another year is in the books. In 2018, Auvik published 50 blog posts—each one packed with what we hope is rich content to help you manage networks or build your MSP business efficiently and profitably. Which pieces hit home? These were our top 10 blog posts, as measured by traffic. Thanks for reading!

Today, we’ll take a look at the ubiquitous offers of free monitoring of the availability of websites. Why are they free, how do they differ from paid services and is it worth using them?