First off, what is synthetic monitoring? What if synthetic monitoring meant monitoring whether or not something is real or fake…watch out Kardashians! Jokes aside, no, synthetic monitoring doesn’t monitor celebrity plastic surgery decisions. Synthetic monitoring is a kind of website performance monitoring that simulates user interactions with a site. A great synthetic monitoring tool instantly alerts you when an issue is encountered.

NGINX is one of the most popular web servers. According to nginx.com, it powers more than 400 million websites. It is, however, probably even more commonly used as a reverse proxy. Since it acts as a go-between for your application and your users, it’s important to properly monitor NGINX metrics. Sometimes you may find yourself trying to understand some performance degradation of the application while an issue may come from NGINX itself.

IT software technology is advancing at a rapid pace, with the internet of things, cloud, automation, and machine learning making networks and network management activities more complex and interdependent. As networks grow and become more complicated, it’s increasingly important for administrators to have access to the tools necessary to conduct essential network monitoring and management operations. One such tool is a network mapper, also known as a network topology mapper.

Kubernetes work queues are a great way to manage the prioritization and execution of long-running or expensive menial tasks, such as processing large volumes of employee migration to a new system, ranking and sorting all the planets in the universe by Twitter tags, or even post-processing every frame of the latest Avengers movie.

Over the last few days, third parties and the media publicly reported on a malware, now referred to as SUPERNOVA. Based on our investigation, this malware could be deployed through an exploitation of a vulnerability in the Orion Platform.

By leveraging specialist tools built to save time, money, and effort, MSPs can manage their business more effectively. There has been an increased demand for high-quality IT services and MSPs this year. Due to the pandemic, the majority of companies have been forced to adopt remote working conditions, which has led many to seek out support for their IT services that they haven’t necessarily needed in the past.

Network diagram software plays a crucial role in helping businesses understand their network and how their network components interact. This guide explains what a network diagram is and how network diagram software can help your business improve efficiency, in addition to recommending the best software for network diagrams available in 2020.

On Saturday, December 12, our CEO was advised by an executive at FireEye of a security vulnerability in our Orion Software Platform which was the result of a very sophisticated cyberattack on SolarWinds. We soon discovered that we had been the victim of a malicious cyberattack that impacted our Orion Platform products as well as our internal systems.

Cybersecurity attacks, such as ransomware and phishing scams, have delivered crippling IT blows in the public sector for some time. And here’s the bad news—these attacks have proliferated in the days of COVID-19. A new report from Google found a 350% increase in phishing attacks since the beginning of the year. To better defend against today’s cyberattacks, state and local governments are increasingly exploring the benefits of software-defined networking (SDN).

IT asset management (ITAM) is one of the most crucial strategies for businesses to practice. If 2020 had you shuffling monitors and laptops all over the country, 2021 isn’t going to make things any easier. Next year looks to bring all new sets of challenges for tracking, maintaining, and budgeting for the assets that your IT organization has not had their hands on in almost a year.