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Application Monitoring for All

It’s common for modern businesses to rely on 2,000+ custom-developed applications and it requires substantial cost, time and effort to ensure 24/7 optimal performance of those applications. IT Ops teams depend on advanced application performance monitoring (APM) to scale up key business capabilities and boost innovation. But the APM tools that provide the deepest insights for critical applications are extremely expensive and are cumbersome to deploy.

Kubernetes Drives Growth and Innovation in Financial Services

Founded in 2000, the Cardano Group is a privately-owned, purpose-built risk and investment specialist — and a financial pioneer. It is widely recognized as a market leader in the provisioning of specialized services to private-sector and collective pension programs in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. Cardano has recently become the third largest retail pension provider in the UK after its recent acquisition of NOW: Pensions.

Use the Dashboard API to build your own monitoring dashboard

Using dashboards in Cloud Monitoring makes it easy for you to track important system metrics. Creating dashboards by hand in the Monitoring UI can be a time-consuming process, especially if you want to use them in multiple different Monitoring Workspaces. With the recent GA announcement for the Cloud Monitoring dashboards API, you now have a way to programmatically create dashboards.

The OpsRamp Monitor: SRE Salaries, DevOps Teams, Multi-Cloud Survey

Top Weekly Reads in IT I&O The OpsRamp Monitor is OpsRamp’s top weekly review of interesting developments and emerging trends in IT operations. In this issue: It’s been a week. Four U.S. presidential contenders dropped out of the race. Coronavirus got worse. Several major tech conferences have been canceled. And the stock market rollercoaster ride continued. Let’s refresh with some good news: your career.

Announcing Unified IT Status Notifications from "Big 3" Cloud Providers

StatusCast helps corporations keep their employees happy by providing unified IT status notifications, which gives them the ability to communicate IT status updates with their employees from a single location. Having to check both a corporate IT status page and a separate one for the organization’s cloud provider to determine the extent of IT issues, lowers employee productivity and job satisfaction.

Chrome 80 and Firefox 72.0.2 updates live on our checkpoints

When a new browser version becomes available, user adoption is fast. As we saw in an earlier post, due to the automatic update/release processes used by providers, most (nearly 100%) users have the latest and greatest within about four weeks of the new browser version’s release. As the browser versions evolve, it is important that your synthetic website monitoring keeps pace with the user-adoption rates.