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Community Plan Improvements & SMS Cost Reduction

StatusCake has always valued it’s community user base; It’s always been our view that if we can support companies at their earliest stages then down the line when they need more advanced monitoring then they know and understand our feature rich product; While other website monitoring platforms are doing more and more to restrict what their free users get, we’ve been looking at what more we can provide and with that in mind have made some improvements to the community plan.

Exception Perceptions: Attack of the Cloned Issues (for Better Understanding User Behavior)

We’re back! That’s right, we have a new episode of Exception Perceptions to share with y’all. This is part 2 of of our Star Wars series, and this time we’re talking all about using errors to better understand user behavior.

What is MTTR? How to measure and improve your Mean Time to Recovery

Complex distributed systems run just about every service imaginable. Healthcare systems that monitor patient health, security systems, and financial systems are all mission-critical. Downtime, or lack of availability, loses money and can even put lives at risk. These systems must be monitored. Many measurements are useful to keep systems running with as little downtime as possible. One of those is Mean Time To Recovery. (MTTR.)

The Importance of Application Decomposition in App Performance Testing

DevOps is changing the way companies develop and maintain software. By embedding operations engineers into software development teams, companies are reducing the average number of days from code completion to live production and eliminating wait time and rework, among other benefits. But as I pointed out in my previous post “Performance Testing in a DevOps World” performance testing remains the weakest link in the process.

Auvik Use Case #14: Differentiate Your MSP Services With Network Monitoring & Managemen

In a crowded MSP market, you need ways to differentiate yourself from the competition. As former MSP Charles Loves points out, “When you compare MSPs, the look and feel of the offering is often the same. So when the customer tries to compare MSP A, B, and C, what are the real differentiators they can leverage?” You don’t want to end up in a situation where dropping prices is the only way to edge out firms with similar offerings.

Monitor Amazon EKS with Datadog

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS), the latest addition to the AWS platform, is a cloud-based Kubernetes service that provides features for automated cluster management and maintenance. Whether you are migrating an existing Kubernetes cluster or deploying a new application to Amazon EKS, Datadog can help you monitor your container infrastructure and applications in real time.

AppDynamics Announces New European Software-as-a-Service Offering, Fueling Application and Business Monitoring Adoption Throughout Europe

SAN FRANCISCO – June 5, 2018–AppDynamics, a Cisco company and the leader in application intelligence, today announced its new European Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering, built on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) EU (Frankfurt) Region. Now, European enterprises can accelerate their digital transformations with AppDynamics and AWS with full confidence and control of their monitoring data.

AppDynamics Enhances Pivotal Cloud Foundry Performance Monitoring with New Infrastructure View

We’ve significantly expanded our Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) performance monitoring capabilities, adding an intuitive dashboard, new metrics, and advanced capabilities to deliver powerful insights into your PCF applications.