Uptime.com and the Nagios monitoring tool serve similar functionality from a surface view. Both alert users to downtime, both offer extensive notification options, and both maintain an API for a variety of flexible use cases. However, these surface distinctions are the extent of the similarities between the two. Nagios Core and Uptime.com serve very different user types, and offer different benefits. You can think of Nagios as your internal safeguard, and there are some challenges to scaling.

I recently gave a talk at DigitalOcean Tide in Bangalore on “Grafana and the DigitalOcean Marketplace.” The DO Marketplace lets you launch a range of open source software, including Grafana, with just a few clicks. This post is not about the marketplace – I’m going to talk about how we automated the building of the images.

This is Opsgenie’s first Summit as an official part of the Atlassian team, and there are lots of exciting announcements and product enhancements to share. Post-acquisition, our goal continues to be empowering Dev, IT, and Ops teams to rapidly respond to, resolve, and learn from incidents, and these features were born from that mission.

Business innovators are embracing the Internet of Things (IoT) to reinvent and enhance the customer experience, improve operational efficiency, and develop new business models. But the IoT brings a host of new IT challenges.

Last month was busy with several key product updates, events and webinars. OpsRamp EMEA controlled the chaos in Europe with our presence in Cloud Expo Europe London, while the US demonstrated OpsRamp’s bi-directional ServiceNow integration with a webinar, and 451 Research’s latest report recognized the company’s innovations in hybrid cloud management. Here’s a quick snapshot of the news milestones that made the month of March.

Dealing with IT outages and downtime is one of the biggest technical challenges of the modern era, costing North American businesses an estimated $700 billion per year. Today's world of interconnected cloud services and microservice architectures has created infinitely more opportunities for something to go wrong and disrupt service. When that happens, there's an urgent need to alert the right people or teams to fix things.

Ensuring your apps work as designed and deliver a productive user experience starts with monitoring applications metrics. This helps you understand whether your software is performing at optimal levels. Many developers use JBoss (now called WildFly and maintained by Red Hat) to build, deploy, and host transactional applications written in Java.

Being inside a company that lives and breathes logging, observability and DevOps intelligence, sometimes it takes a moment to step back and explain what we do to friends, family and others. The simplest way we explain what LogDNA solves for companies with IT systems and software is similar to a blackbox on a plane that keeps a record of the flight data and the cockpit voice recorder.

As infrastructure has evolved and matured over the last decade, the way in which we build and deploy that infrastructure has — for the most part — kept pace. As the velocity of deployments increased, and practices such as continuous deployment and delivery became the norm, it became critical that we manage infrastructure and deploy applications in a similar way.

If you’ve ever checked your page performance in our free Website Speed Test tool, you’ve seen a list of optimizations from Google Insights that when implemented improve your site’s performance leading to a better user experience and higher conversion rates.