When it comes to ensuring your website’s performance and uptime, synthetic monitoring tools have become indispensable. These tools help businesses proactively detect and resolve issues before they affect real users, offering peace of mind and optimal website performance. In this article, we’ll explore what synthetic monitoring is, the best tools for 2024, and why Dotcom-Monitor is our top choice.

Microsoft Teams is one of the most popular tools for work communication today. Whether you're chatting with your team, jumping on a video call, or sharing files, it helps keep everyone connected. But let's face it – MS Teams isn’t perfect. You’ve probably run into issues like calls dropping, bad audio, or slow Teams performance. These problems can be frustrating, especially when you’re in the middle of an important meeting or deadline.

AWS Inferentia and AWS Trainium are purpose-built AI chips that—with the AWS Neuron SDK—are used to build and deploy generative AI models. As models increasingly require a larger number of accelerated compute instances, observability plays a critical role in ML operations, empowering users to improve performance, diagnose and fix failures, and optimize resource utilization.

Several of our recent blog posts have introduced the characteristics of each phase of the Autonomic IT maturity model, from Siloed IT to Coordinated IT (an essential foundation for Autonomic IT) and the transition to Machine-Assisted IT and AI-Advised IT. We explored how you can identify where your organization stands on this transformative journey, why you might not be as far along as you believe, and what is needed to advance your journey. Now we arrive at IT nirvana: Phase 5, Autonomic IT.

Effective IT monitoring is critical to maintaining seamless operations, and 2024 has been a year of addressing challenges and delivering solutions with Site24x7. From upgrading server health and performance to streamlining Kubernetes and VM administration, let's plunge into how Site24x7’s updates have helped IT teams tackle their monitoring challenges and enhance infrastructure reliability.

Imagine you're on a website trying to purchase a product, but every time you click the "Add to Cart" button, nothing happens. Frustrating, isn’t it? Such moments can deter consumers from completing their online purchases. And while users find this annoying, it poses an even bigger challenge for businesses.

This is a guest post from Simon Grimm, creator of Galaxies.dev, where Simon helps developers learn React Native through fast-paced courses and personal support. Debugging React Native apps has traditionally been a bit of a pain. Developers usually ranked debugging as their biggest pain point of React Native, which, as we all know, makes up quite a lot of development time. But the good news is that things are getting better.

Balancing cost efficiency and high performance in cloud networks is a constant challenge, especially when misconfigurations or inefficient routing lead to inflated costs or degraded performance. Learn how Kentik Journeys simplifies traffic analysis, helping cloud engineers identify inefficiencies like unnecessary Transit Gateway routing.

Serverless architectures are the rental tux of computing. If you’re using AWS to manage and scale your underlying infrastructure, you’re renting compute time or storage space. Your Lambda functions are the tie or cummerbund you purchase to customize your rental. Using the AWS event-driven architecture improves business agility, allowing you to move quickly. Lambda is the on-demand compute services that runs custom code driving an event’s response.

A critical component of any monitoring and observability system is alerting. But alerts in and of themselves aren’t enough—when something goes wrong, time is of the essence, and your team needs to figure out not just what’s going on but how to fix it, and fast. Additionally, constantly chasing down alerts can be the bane of any observability practitioner’s existence.