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Server Monitoring with Logz.io and the ELK Stack

In a previous article, we explained the importance of monitoring the performance of your servers. Keeping tabs on metrics such as CPU, memory, disk usage, uptime, network traffic and swap usage will help you gauge the general health of your environment as well as provide the context you need to troubleshoot and solve production issues.

Browser Automation: Using the Gmail API to Retrieve MFA Codes

In a separate article, we introduced the concept of performing synthetic transactions with LogicMonitor to ensure website services are up and running correctly. It may be necessary to authenticate with a website before you can fully monitor it, and authentication may require presenting an MFA code that has been delivered via email. Let’s take this a step further and incorporate an MFA (Multifactor Authentication) Challenge.

Tips for building an effective performance monitoring strategy

A record high of 162,414 cars per day cross the Golden Gate bridge, in wind, rain, and countless other environmental factors (don’t say earthquakes!) that compound stress on it. An Atlassian instance is a lot like a bridge. Users access each instance hundreds and thousands of times a day, amid conditions that include the size of the instance itself (with its load of comments, pages, repos, etc.), the apps you’ve added, API calls, and much more.

How to Improve Your eCommerce Checkout Page to Increase Sales?

If you are running an eCommerce store, you might be knowledgeable enough about how important each page on your website is to bring up the increased sales number each time. Every page on the website has its significance, be it the products category page or the product details page. Every page is equally important to convert a visitor into a customer.

How to Send Akamai Logs to LogDNA

Akamai provides the Content Delivery Network (CDN) which is a highly-distributed platform of servers optimized to deliver contents including web and media applications. These networks enable applications to easily serve content from closer to their end users. Centralizing Akamai logs increases the ability to observe the end to end application and service delivery. LogDNA is proud to enable integration with Akamai to provide better observability and a unified view for our customers.

Integrating Jira Server with Opsgenie

Despite the advantages of Jira Cloud, there are times when Jira Server installed on premises or in your own cloud environment is a better fit. That won’t stop you from integrating Jira with Opsgenie for on-call scheduling, alerting and incident management. Opsgenie supports secure, bidirectional integration with Jira Server even when it’s behind your firewall.

Dickerson's Hierarchy of Service Reliability

From Wikipedia: “Abraham Maslow was an American psychologist who was best known for creating Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, a theory of psychological health predicated on fulfilling innate human needs in priority…” In developmental psychology, Maslow’s hierarchy is a classification system that reflects the universal needs of society as its base and then proceeds to more acquired emotions. Here is a graphical depiction of Maslow’s hierarchy.