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Under-the-hood with Scout: a look at a New Relic alternative

When New Relic launched ten years ago, web applications had a tendency to fail hard and in more obvious ways. Today, it's easier to build resilient apps, but they fail in more complex, unique, and subtle ways. These issues are time-consuming to track down. While several niche New Relic alternatives have appeared, they've focused on a lighter feature set versus solving these increasingly hard performance problems.

New feature in Applications Manager: SAP MaxDB performance monitoring

SAP MaxDB is robust and reliable technology that is an immanent component of various mySAP technologies including APO (live cache) and KM. Since databases like MaxDB store huge amounts of data, in-depth monitoring is vital for optimal operation of these systems.

Infrastructure maps: Build and visualize custom network topology maps to dissect network outages and performance bottlenecks in your IT stack

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.

Hosted Status Pages & Monitoring

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.

How to Secure That Small Business WLAN

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.