The ability to visualize your IT infrastructure from end to end is critical in fostering successful operations and delivery of service. Being a network admin, you need to keep a close eye on all your network devices, whether they're across the globe or inside your data centers. However, this is difficult to do without an actual location-based topology map of your network infrastructure.

Hi there! this is the first post on Statuspal’s young life :) we’ll be using this publication to communicate about new and upcoming features on our beloved platform and of course all things related to status pages & monitoring. First, an introduction is in order, Statuspal aims to solve a subtle but important problem, status communication & monitoring, sometimes sites go down, no matter how perfectly engineered they are, they will go down.

First of all, what is SSL? It is short for Secure Sockets Layer. In simple words and without getting into too much technical details, adding a SSL certificate makes the connection more secure and much safer when you browse, buy and communicate online.

Too often, small business equals small budget when it comes to doing wireless, but sometimes just knowing what can be done goes further than more money. There are many ways to approach wireless security, and businesses of any size have options. Let’s talk about how I approach my own small- and mid-sized business (SMB) settings when it comes to security and Wi-Fi.

Today, we introduce you to a new series of posts we’re doing on the Mattermost blog: Mattermost Recipes. The goal of these posts is to provide you with solutions to specific problems, as well as a discussion about the details of the solution and some tips about how to customize it to suit your needs perfectly.

Icinga Camp Berlin and New York were a blast – thank you everyone for joining! The archive for both is now online including slides and recordings.

Computer programs that talk to people aren’t new. The natural language processing program ELIZA , which played the role of a digital psychologist, first debuted way back in 1966. This early chatbot was capable of “listening” to you as you shared your life story, delivering mostly coherent, yet vague canned responses to whatever you typed in.

Imagine the following scenario: A critical incident hits. You have a few different teams on it throughout the company. Managers and other stakeholders need to be updated every thirty minutes. But the biggest issue is that you need to engage with external service providers. You need your communication provider and hosting service to check on their side and report back. You want a consultant in the picture and an external help desk service might be involved as well.

We are proud to introduce a new uptime test type – ping. As an addition to usual http test, now it’s possible to test a server via ICMP (ping).

Uptime check comparison page is just released together with some small UI/UX fixes and enhancements!