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December 2024

Leverage log analytics dashboards for better monitoring

Visuals often communicate better than words, and this is also true for monitoring systems. Dashboards are an essential feature in log monitoring systems, providing great value to those who need to analyze and monitor logs. They help centralize log data in a simple, easy-to-read format, avoid clutter, and allow the team to focus on critical metrics.

14 top network monitoring trends in 2025

What's shaping the future of network monitoring in 2025? A window into network monitoring preferences across the world reveals a convergence of business, technology, and societal shifts. With new technologies like generative AI stepping into the spotlight, the question remains: how will it shape network monitoring? And, is Site24x7 ready for the future? Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are transforming the way we think about network monitoring.

Enhancing your defenses: Key DRA updates from 2024

2024 saw a dramatic rise in sophisticated cyber threats, making robust security posture management more critical than ever. Throughout the year, Site24x7's Digital Risk Analyzer evolved to meet these challenges, empowering enterprises to proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate digital risks. This year-end roundup highlights the key enhancements and features that helped our users stay ahead of the curve in 2024.

Build user trust and foster transparency with StatusIQ's 2024 enhancements

2024 has been a transformative year for StatusIQ, marked by continuous innovation to meet the growing needs of our users. This year’s enhancements aim to simplify incident communication, improve team efficiency, and, most importantly, build trust with your users. From providing deeper insights into status history to enabling seamless platform migrations, these updates reflect our unwavering commitment to empowering teams and stakeholders.

How StatusIQ helps executives make informed decisions

Good decisions help leaders keep operations smooth and grow their business. With the right data at the right time, executives can solve problems quickly and take advantage of new opportunities. This blog will explore how StatusIQ helps executives make informed decisions by providing real-time data on system health, optimizing resource allocation, enhancing communication, and improving customer trust.

Black box and white box monitoring, and why modern IT observability needs both

Monitoring is essential for enhancing the reliability, performance, and user experience of all software systems. IT operations can employ two key monitoring strategies to assess system health: black box and white box monitoring. This blog discusses both approaches and highlights how ManageEngine Site24x7, an AI-based IT observability platform, can assist organizations in adopting white box monitoring to improve IT operations.

From downtime to uptime: The importance of server health monitoring for enterprises

What if your servers suddenly crashed during your biggest sales event of the year? For an enterprise IT manager, this isn't just a hypothetical—it's a disaster in the making. Server downtime doesn’t just cause frustration; it disrupts operations, erodes customer trust, damages your brand, and results in significant revenue loss. As businesses become increasingly reliant on complex IT infrastructures, ensuring server health is no longer optional—it’s essential.

Actual cost of IT downtime: A Guide

In our recent blog, we spoke in detail about how system availability trends changed in 2024. From the observation over the years, even public clouds and established data centers aren't safe from downtime threats. Now, let's learn about the actual cost of an IT infrastructure downtime to understand the importance of comprehensive IT observability better. Today, we will cover the allied costs that come along with downtime.

Your monitoring made smarter: Site24x7's 2024 updates

2024 has been a year of progress and possibilities at Site24x7. Our mission? To simplify IT monitoring and help you focus on running your business uninterrupted. Whether it’s cutting through alert noise, diving into performance trends, or customizing dashboards to match your workflow, we’ve rolled out features that deliver exactly what you need for smarter monitoring. Let’s explore how these updates have delivered a better monitoring experience this year.

Error tracking: Challenges and best practices

For small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and mid-market enterprises, ensuring application reliability is critical to maintain customer trust and business continuity. Error tracking, a key aspect of observability maturity, is a powerful tool to proactively identify and resolve application issues. Let's explore the challenges of error tracking and best practices to implement effective solutions, including how Site24x7 can simplify the process.

Common Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) monitoring challenges

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a robust, versatile platform for modern cloud deployments, catering to businesses with diverse needs, like multi-region scalability, high customization, and hybrid cloud integration. However, the complexity of its architecture and the sheer volume of data generated can present unique challenges in effectively monitoring it.

Reflecting on 2024: Advancing monitoring solutions for DevOps

As we approach the close of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on the remarkable progress and innovation at Site24x7. Our commitment to empowering businesses with robust monitoring solutions for DevOps and IT operations has led to significant advancements in application performance monitoring (APM), logs, databases, and plugins. Here's a recap of the year's milestones showcasing how they enhance your IT operations.

Network compliance and automation, IPAM, Cisco ACI monitoring, and more-key achievements in network monitoring: 2024

At Site24x7, we’ve always been about simplifying the complex and empowering IT teams to do more with less. This year was no different; we rolled out a host of new features and enhancements designed to help you manage your networks with greater confidence and ease. From streamlining compliance processes to enhancing visibility and automation, 2024 has been all about addressing your most pressing network challenges.

Why website monitoring is essential for building digital trust

Your website: it's where your customers connect with you. It's the digital embodiment of your brand, the 24/7 ambassador communicating your value and building crucial relationships. But what if that vital communication channel breaks down? Slowdowns, outages, and especially security breaches can instantly erode customer trust, inflicting lasting damage on your reputation and revenue.

Analyzing user behavior to optimize user experience

Every interaction a user has with your application—whether positive or negative—directly impacts your business outcomes. But how can you uncover what truly shapes these interactions? The answer lies in analyzing user behavior to identify opportunities for user experience optimization and improving performance as user impact.

Cross-browser testing: Best practices for a seamless user experience

A wide variety of browsers are available in the market, with their usage varying significantly by device and region. Ensuring that your web applications work seamlessly across different browsers, devices, and versions is essential for providing a consistent and reliable user experience. This is where cross-browser testing comes in.

The quest for the four nines: Achieving 99.99% uptime with advanced website monitoring

In an age of instant access, your website is crucial for meeting customer expectations. Downtime, even fleetingly, translates directly into lost revenue, irreparable reputational damage, and the erosion of hard-earned customer trust. For enterprises, achieving near-perfect uptime – the coveted "four nines" (99.99% availability) – is no longer a luxury; it's a business imperative. This translates to a maximum permissible downtime of just 52 minutes and 36 seconds per year.

Charting the course in multi-cloud monitoring: Key moments from 2024

'Why settle for partly cloudy?' That's why Site24x7 went all in on making multi-cloud monitoring smarter, faster, and a lot less stressful. IT teams faced the usual chaos—expired certificates, rogue servers, and surprise bottlenecks—but Site24x7 stepped in with a toolkit so sharp, it could cut through latency like butter.

The why and how of network availability monitoring

You might be familiar with the following scenario: You have a monitor displaying 20 open applications to oversee multiple networks or various aspects of your network infrastructure. Your inbox is steadily filling up with emails—many of which you can't seem to open and respond to in a timely manner. Outstanding tasks are accumulating, all due to an unexpected outage in a data center. If this resonates with you, it's likely that you are a network administrator or someone who works closely with them.

Top AWS monitoring best practices

AWS powers countless businesses with its vast services and unmatched scalability, but managing such a dynamic environment comes with challenges. Effective monitoring isn’t an option—it’s essential for ensuring performance, controlling costs, and maintaining compliance. Without a strategic approach, issues can escalate quickly, impacting customer experiences and business outcomes.

Strengthen your server security: Site24x7's approach to patching and monitoring

Security is at the forefront of every decision made in the tech space. A key tool in the fight against server attacks is patching. In this article, let us learn how Windows-reliant enterprises secure their servers and VM instances: with patches and Site24x7.

10 best practices to optimize single-page applications (SPAs)

Since they were introduced over two decades ago, single-page applications(SPAs) have transformed web experiences, offering fast and fluid interactions akin to native apps. With dynamic updates on a single HTML page, users can interact with a web app without waiting for page reloads. Compared to non-dynamic web pages, SPAs reduce server load and improve interaction speeds. However, SPAs also present unique challenges for optimization, especially as they grow more complex.

5 key OCI services you must monitor for optimal cloud performance

Effectively monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services is crucial for maintaining smooth operations, cost efficiency, and robust security. OCI offers a suite of services, each vital to powering applications and workloads. Understanding what to monitor and why is key to preventing downtime, managing costs, and optimizing performance.

Year-end recap: What's new in IT infrastructure monitoring: 2024

Effective IT monitoring is critical to maintaining seamless operations, and 2024 has been a year of addressing challenges and delivering solutions with Site24x7. From upgrading server health and performance to streamlining Kubernetes and VM administration, let's plunge into how Site24x7’s updates have helped IT teams tackle their monitoring challenges and enhance infrastructure reliability.

Reflecting on Site24x7's digital experience monitoring for the year 2024!

Last year, we made significant progress at Site24x7. We focused on delivering new features and updates to improve your monitoring experience. Our releases and enhancements this year were more focused towards including more metrics, widening your visibility into the performance of your resources, and ensuring that you're not missing out on even the minutest data. We hope you've found these improvements valuable.