The Exoprise team is having a great show at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando. We’ve launched a new product and a number of new features that we’re demonstrating, catching up with customers and prospects and meeting new ones. Here’s a recap of what we’ve announced and some key announcements from Microsoft.

How do you choose an APM tool? You search online and you see there is a lot of choice. But you can only choose one. And it's a big decision. You need to find a tool that can monitor your crown jewel applications. You know that the cost of an APM tool is high. And you know that it's going to be a challenging and lengthy process to implement it.

When incidents happen, many organizations have formalized processes for dealing with the issue. OpsGenie helps organizations manage their incident response processes smoothly from one single place. Now, as an addition to our Incident Management features, we are happy to announce Incident Response Roles!

On this episode of Exception Perceptions, GitHub Community Engineer Bex Warner stopped by to chat about Probot, a framework for automating GitHub. Watch the episode, and then read what else Bex has to say about the magic of Probot. Also, check out this example of what Sentry has built with Probot.

It’s essential to monitor server vitals such as CPU utilisation, memory usage and free disk space to spot the warning signs of impending doom (hands up those that have run out of disk space on a production server before. Many turn to Application Performance Monitoring (APM) software for help. But APM solutions can be expensive, require software to be installed and require system access that some people may not be comfortable with.