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Our Must-Read Blog Posts from the First Half of 2019

2019 is turning out to be the biggest year so far for OpsRamp. In the first half of 2019, we have delivered significant innovation on the product front, interacted with partners and prospects at trade shows, gained recognition from leading industry influencers, hired amazing individuals, and accelerated our go-to-market momentum. Here are some quick highlights for your review: It has also been a busy time on our blog, with 40 different posts on all things related to digital operations management.

Flamegraph: How to Visualize Stack Traces and Performance

So you want a faster application? If you’ve not heard of a flamegraph, it can be a great way to improve and gain insight into your application performance. Today, we’ll explain what a flamegraph is. We’ll cover the stack trace and its origin, the call stack. Finally, we’ll define the flame graph and show how to leverage it for improving the performance of your application. Sound good? Let’s get to it. Before we get to what a flamegraph is, we need to discuss stack traces.

7 Free Tools to Manage Your Sites More Efficiently

Managing your online businesses or websites should be compared to managing brick-and-mortar outlet shop. The difference is that you are managing it on digital devices. But with rapid growth in technology and digital trends, there are so many apps and tools available today to help you manage. With so many choices one could be confused about which apps and tools work best. These seven free online tools will help you manage your sites or online businesses.

Top 11 Incident Response Influencers to Follow in 2019

The incident response industry is anything but static, and it is often said that the key to staying ahead is staying informed. But that’s easier said than done. Faced with the increasing sophistication of cyber attacks and the growing complexity of IT architectures, we often drown in our daily slew of tickets and alerts, with no time left to spare.

Office 365 Performance Monitoring and Troubleshooting: What Microsoft Can't, But eG Enterprise Can

A recent analysis by Skyhigh Networks on 27 million employees rated Microsoft Office 365 as the most widely popular enterprise cloud service by user count. While Office 365 offers a wide range of Microsoft products on a subscription basis, from the cloud, one of its popular offerings is SharePoint Online. A recent Hyperfish, Sharegate, Nintex and LiveTiles survey estimates that adoption of SharePoint Online grew to 50% in the last year.

How to monitor Lambda with CloudWatch Metrics

With AWS Lambda, you have basic observability built into the platform with CloudWatch. CloudWatch offers support for both metrics and logging. CloudWatch Metrics gives you basic metrics, visualization and alerting while CloudWatch Logs captures everything that is written to stdout and stderr. In this post, we will take a deep dive into CloudWatch Metrics to see how you can use it to monitor your Lambda functions and its limitations.

8 server types you should know about

How many server types are out there? The answer to this question, like so many others, is: “It depends”. Since there can be as many types of server as a company needs, and companies have more IT needs every day, so… If we go to the definition of server we find that this is a computer that provides service to other computers that are part of a network.

Velocity (& Reliability) - Two must-haves for every software engineering team

(Field notes from O’Reilly’s Velocity 2019 Show, San Jose.) It was steamy hot in San Jose during O’Reilly’s Velocity show and the normally frigid AC temps in the expo hall were welcomed by all attendees, escaping the 104 degree temps. It got so bad, Charity Majors labeled it Satan Jose and the nearby Marriott hotel experienced a power outage for almost two full days, leaving guests hot under more than just their collars.

Cut Down Distractions, Reduce Stress and Focus on Critical Priorities with OpsRamp's First-Response Policies

Modern hybrid, multi-cloud, and cloud native environments have created increased management complexity for enterprise IT teams. Dynamic and distributed applications, infrastructure and business-critical services are constantly generating more data in the form of metrics, events, and alerts.

Machine Data is Business Intelligence for Digital Companies

Software has eaten the world and every company today is a software company. This is because every company today is more and more serving its customers digitally. That service can be a spectrum, such as offering traditional physical products and services through digital channels on one end to offering entirely new digital products on the other end. Regardless of where on the spectrum a company is, it does not change the fact that its primary interface with its customers has become its software.