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Smart SLO Alerting With Wavefront

Back in the good old days of monolithic applications, most developers and application owners relied on tribal knowledge for what performance to expect. Although applications could be incredibly complex, the understanding of their inner workings usually resided within a relative few in the organization. Application performance was managed informally and measured casually. However, this model falls apart in a microservices world.

How Are Governments Approaching Cloud Adoption and Digital Transformation?

Today on the blog we feature a conversation with Jonathan Reichental, an award-winning former CIO who now travels the world to speak, teach, and consult on emerging trends including the fourth industrial revolution, urban innovation, the future of cities, and blockchain technology. We got his take on cloud adoption and digital disruption in government.

AWS S3 Monitoring with Sumo Logic

In part 2 of our AWS S3 Monitoring series, we covered the basics of AWS S3 logging, why it’s important to log all the information in your cloud environment, and also the benefits of monitoring those logs. Now, AWS offers some great tools for monitoring and log querying, but if you and your team want to take it to the next level, Sumo Logic is there for your needs.

What Is an IIS Application Pool

People who are new to hosting web apps on IIS (Internet Information Services) sometimes struggle with the concept of application pools. What is an IIS application pool? What purpose does it serve? In this post, we’ll answer these questions—and more. We’ll begin by offering a brief introduction to IIS itself. If you’re already well acquainted with this piece of software, then the first section isn’t for you; feel free to skip it.

New Pro Plans For EU Individuals

We've just made our Pro Plans available to all EU individuals. Previously our paid services were only available in the EU to VAT registered businesses, now they are available to everyone. Read on to find out why... We've always aimed to provide Downtime Monkey worldwide and when we first set things up in 2017 we had a really useful consultation with Scottish Enterprise who helped us hugely by providing expert information on international tax rules.

Digital Experience Monitoring: An Overview

In today’s ever-changing digital landscape, it’s critical for companies to be in sync with their users and customers. From websites and web applications to internal mission-critical applications, businesses must ensure that their services are always available and running smoothly. If not, users are likely to easily abandon your website, directly affecting revenue.

Replicating and Restoring LogDNA Account Configurations

As an engineer who has set up logging for more than one deployment or environment, you know that you usually have one logging account per deployment. You’ve got plenty of pre-created queries, graphs, and alerts set up specific for your company’s use case, all of which are vital to you knowing the health of your infrastructure. Now imagine being responsible for creating and maintaining logging accounts across 10+ deployments.

Announcing the Sensu archives

Earlier this year, we reached an important early milestone for the next-generation Sensu Go platform with the General Availability of commercial support for Sensu Go. A few weeks later, we announced that Sensu Core 1.x – the original Sensu open source project – would reach end of life (EOL) on December 31, 2019, and that commercial support for Sensu Enterprise (latest version 3.x) would reach EOL on March 31, 2020.

Monitor MapR performance with Datadog

MapR is an Apache Hadoop distribution that enables organizations to manage, analyze, and store all their data at scale. MapR handles a wide range of data types across infrastructures and locations by leveraging dataware, an abstraction layer in the enterprise software stack that separates data from any dependencies. We’re excited to announce that our new integration provides comprehensive visibility across all the moving parts of your MapR deployment.

Here's how Rojan, a leading MSP in Australia saves thousands on IT maintenance costs with OpManager

Rojan Australia Pty Ltd is a managed IT services provider that supports a wide assortment of customers and businesses, and provides services such as hosted Microsoft Exchange, Xen Citrix servers, rack space, internet links, and desktop support.