As we approach the close of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on the remarkable progress and innovation at Site24x7. Our commitment to empowering businesses with robust monitoring solutions for DevOps and IT operations has led to significant advancements in application performance monitoring (APM), logs, databases, and plugins. Here's a recap of the year's milestones showcasing how they enhance your IT operations.

With the nearly unmatched reliability and scalability offered by the 12-factor application design pattern, microservice-based designs have become a fundamental architectural pattern for modern applications. A whole industry of cloud providers has sprung up to offer management of the sophisticated middleware and infrastructure services that make this possible. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is among the largest of them.

AWS Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (EKS) is a managed service ideal for large clusters of nodes running heavy and variable workloads. Because of how account permissions work in AWS, EKS's architecture is unusual and creates slight differences in your monitoring strategy. Overall, it's still the same Kubernetes you know and love.

The data center industry continues to evolve every year, and 2025 will be no different. 2024 saw lots of movement towards AI, sustainability, and cloud repatriation to name a few key trends. With 2025 just around the corner, take a look at the rising trends that will shape data center management next year. If you haven’t created an action plan yet for these emerging trends, now is the time to consider them in your 2025 strategy.

We are thrilled to announce that Cycle was named a Cool Vendor in the 2024 Gartner Cool Vendors in Container Management research. For Gartner clients, you can find the full research here. “When we started Cycle a decade ago, we knew it would be a constant battle in the war of functionality versus simplicity. While it's a challenge to build a platform that has all the features organizations want, it's even more difficult to accomplish that functionality without introducing extra complexity.

Migrating from JFrog Artifactory to a new artifact management platform like Cloudsmith can feel like a daunting task. We promise, it’s actually easier and more straightforward than you think! Our experience with other customers has shown that even if you have a complex setup with hundreds of teams and lots of binary artifacts, you can make the move to Cloudsmith fairly quickly. We can help arm you with a clear plan and best practices, so the transition can be seamless.

In the process of developing software, designing and performing testing is a critical aspect of ensuring high software reliability, improving software quality, and deploying strong fit and function. The shift-right testing approach moves testing to later in your production cycle as a way of doing this with more accurate user data and post-production testing practices. Also known as “testing in production,” with shift-right, you test software after it has been deployed.

In today’s hyperconnected world, APIs are no longer just tools for integrating software—they are the driving force behind modern DevOps and incident management strategies. As organizations prioritize speed, scalability, and resilience, APIs have transformed from being enablers of connectivity to essential components in streamlining workflows, improving collaboration, and accelerating incident resolution.

From developers and tech leaders to start-ups and students, over 60,000 attendees from around the world gathered in Las Vegas for the 13th AWS re:Invent. This year’s event showcased continuing innovation from AWS, offered an abundance of content for every type of attendee, plus a sprawling Expo Hall hosting hundreds of AWS partners and industry vendors.

Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our new ServiceNow integration in beta — designed to give engineers even more control to manage and automate incidents in FireHydrant while seamlessly keeping the rest of the organization aligned in ServiceNow.