When your pager goes off at 3:00 a.m. and you need to begin your investigation, where do you start? Before you can attack the problem, you need to know the lay of the land: What else is potentially affected by this failing service? What are its dependencies? Where are the probable root causes? With the new Datadog Service Map, you can visualize the topology of your application to answer these questions and more.

Because email is communication is prevalent in today’s business landscape, use Uptime.com’s email server checks to continually monitor email server status. Let’s get familiar with the three different types of email checks you can implement. Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) checks monitor the flow of email across the Internet.

Mattermost 5.2 has new features designed to improve team productivity.

In an ideal world, bugs would never reach production. But, software errors are an inevitable part of a developer’s life. Java debugging tools exist to help us resolve errors faster, so we can get on with doing what we do best. This list of Java debugging tools will help you evaluate your options quickly so you can find the best for the job.

Everyone knows about the importance of log management in IT security. Yet, organizations struggle with implementing effective log management techniques in their networks. This blog series aims to revisit the fundamentals of log management and discuss the different security events you need to keep track of in each of the different systems in your environment.

We caught up with three Statuspage customers to learn how their teams come together for awesome incident response. Want to learn from more incident response teams or submit your own tips and stories for us to feature? Head over to our new HugOps hub.

This post will explain how to deploy rails app on Heroku using Razorops CI/CD Deploying to Heroku was super easy as it happens with just a git push, with Razorops you can add CI/CD support to your Heroku app.