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The online market gets more competitive by the day. You have an increasing number of online businesses competing for the same customers. Therefore, online business owners don't have the luxury of tolerating website issues like crashes. The more your website crashes, the more customers you lose. Even poor page load times increase bounce rates by up to 53%. Essentially, you have no option but to optimize your website and prevent crashes or resolve them as quickly as they happen.

I'm excited to be launching onlineornot - OnlineOrNot's newly-built, open source (TypeScript) CLI for managing your uptime checks, all from the comfort of your terminal!

Nowadays, it is rather common to see companies adopt several monitoring solutions based on Prometheus, but this is not exempt from pain. A huge number of systems, applications, and third-party software are not instrumented to expose Prometheus metrics natively. Here is where Prometheus exporters come into play.

The true financial harm of downtime is significant. As of Aug 11, 2022, each minute costs an average of $9,000, according to the Ponemon Institute, raising the downtime cost per hour to over $500,000. It goes without saying that network outages hurt revenue, kill productivity, and harm the corporate brand, as well as the reputations of professionals who may be dragged into the mess.

Statuspage is a popular status page provider used by thousands of teams to communicate the status of their services. Atlassian acquired Statuspage, a Y-Combinator-backed service, in 2016 and invested significantly in expanding status page features to stand out among Statuspage alternatives. Overall, Statuspage is a well-established status page software, but it comes with a higher price than other Statuspage.io alternatives.

What are the best ServiceNow competitors? If you are searching for ServiceNow alternatives, you’ve come to the right place. This guide will break down the best alternatives to ServiceNow on the market. When it comes to managing workflows for enterprise operations, there is no shortage of tools for you to consider taking for a test drive. Let’s take a closer look at five.

This is a big one. HAProxy Fusion Control Plane is here to give our customers the power to simplify, scale, and secure their HAProxy application delivery infrastructure using a centralized control plane. HAProxy Fusion enables your business to scale up, launch new products faster, and improve security and resilience.

How your code performs isn’t a subjective debate. Well, at least not anymore — in the past few months, Sentry has started telling you exactly what’s slow and where to fix it — specifically, N+1 database queries in your code. While we’ve all had to fix an N+1 problem, performance problems come in multiple flavors. Today, you’ll notice more Performance Issues in your issue feed, Slack alerts, and email notifications.

In August 2022, Checkly's security team successfully implemented and documented all necessary security controls to be SOC 2 compliant for the first time. To get our SOC 2 Type 1 report we had to prove that our engineering, HR, operational, and IT security processes met the high level of information security SOC 2 compliance demands to an accredited auditing firm.

DevOps teams improve efficiency and reliability in development workflows, helping engineers spend less time building processes from scratch and more time programming. These best practices will set your DevOps team in the right direction.