The Domain Name System (DNS) is brilliantly designed as a hierarchical structure, ensuring that any single point can fail with the system remaining relatively intact. There are some nuances to this statement, like caching issues that arise from outages, but the overall focus is on uptime. This is why the DNS check is a critical part of your IT uptime monitoring process.

CNN recently estimated that in the first six months of 2018, the cryptocurrency market lost approximately $731 million to hackers and theft. One of the most famous software breaches—which caused major panic in the market—involved Cointhumb, a cryptocurrency exchange with more than 1 million users. In this breach, hackers stole around $32 million from customers’ wallets.

OpsLogix is happy to announce the latest update of the EZalert solution, version 2. It does a lot more than just closing alerts, in comparison to the first release of the solution.

Now that the holiday season is coming to an end, the OpsLogix team is slowly but surely returning after enjoying their hard earned vacations shortly following Microsoft Inspire in Las Vegas last month. We were proud and happy to present the newest update of our EZalert solution and inform our (future) customers about our plans for the upcoming release.

Stability and user experience were the main goals for this release. Please read the full Changelog for all the details and the Upgrading instructions to be on the safe side. Spoiler: as always, upgrade is safe and super easy.

An incident response process is a business process and should be treated accordingly. Because if your enterprise puts its incident response process on the backburner, the consequences could be severe.

Last week I attended ServerlessConf SF. This was the 8th and largest ServerlessConf to date with more than 550 attendees. The conference had an effective agenda with a strong slate of talks and an impressive presence of community thought leaders. Kudos to the ACloudGuru team for organizing the event!

Total visibility is crucial to monitoring the database environments that support your most critical applications. That’s why AppDynamics recently released a number of updates to our Database Visibility functionality. Not only do we now support monitoring Couchbase, but we also added snapshot correlation, support for custom cluster configuration, and enhancements to our ability to collect and track custom database metrics.

Serverless compute services such as AWS Lambda offer many advantages to their customers, most notably the ability to reduce costs and minimise infrastructure. But serverless can also bring trade-offs that give rise to application performance issues.