We've just rolled out another major new feature - website content monitoring. If the content of your website changes unexpectedly, Downtime Monkey will alert you.

Amazon DocumentDB is an AWS-managed document database service that supports MongoDB, the well known open source database. As a managed service, AWS automatically handles database management tasks, autoscales database clusters, and backs up your data to S3. DocumentDB implements the Apache 2.0 open source MongoDB 3.6 API, making it easy to migrate your existing MongoDB workloads to DocumentDB.

They say knowledge is power and today, there is no greater source of knowledge than data. It is well documented that businesses produce a vast amount of data whether it be in manufacturing, IT, UX, Marketing, Sales or Finance. Collectively, all of this data can provide you with business intelligence, enabling you to optimize decisions, improve collaboration, and increase overall performance.

We have exciting news! Now, just like every other Atlassian product Opsgenie now has a collection in the Atlassian Community. We've been working as a team to create a meaningful Opsgenie space in Atlassian's Community. The Community is a rich online resource that gathers users, customers, Technical Support, Product Managers, Product Marketers, and more.

We recently released a new search key autocomplete feature here at Honeybadger. It was such a fun project that I just had to write it up for you all. Not only does it showcase an exciting use of DynamoDB, but it also shows the challenges of using Dynamo cost-effectively with large amounts of frequently-updated data.

Nextcloud is an open source, self-hosted file share and communication system. You might even consider it a platform, in the sense that apps run on top of Nexcloud and it provides a variety of features beyond file handling, including calendar/contacts, project management, communication, and more.

Grafana isn’t just being used for monitoring applications. Andrew Rodgers, Senior Systems Architect at New City Energy, spoke in Amsterdam at GrafanaCon EU 2018 about how his organization is using Grafana to measure energy usage in municipal buildings in Washington D.C. for the Department of General Services (DGS).

As operational complexity accelerates, our customers are realizing that it’s impossible to manage their services or innovate for their business without a mechanism to make sense of that complexity. That’s why our March product update focuses on Event Intelligence, which is all about turning chaotic monitoring data into actionable insights so that teams can work smarter and focus on the things that matter.

Throughout Pandora FMS’s history, constant improvements and functionalities have been introduced that have made Pandora FMS an advanced monitoring tool. At the same time, the more advanced the tool, the more complex its administration and configuration becomes. The R&D team, together with the team of developers, saw in this growth of complexity an issue to deal with, wanting to reduce as much as possible the doubts that a user could find when working with Pandora FMS.

As a Product Manager at BigPanda, I like to stay in touch with our customers on a regular basis. Recently, I visited a customer of ours in Atlanta. As I was getting got out of my rental car in the company’s parking lot, I noticed him pulling in into his small parking space in a very large pickup truck. “Those are some big wheels”, I commented.