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7 Network Visibility Best Practices for Better Performance and Data Control

We rely heavily on our networks for business continuity. As technology evolves, we can do so much more. At the same time, increased complexity makes it challenging to keep track of everything. Reaching and maintaining network visibility sometimes feels like chasing the carrot at the end of the stick.

TV Integration: Expand incident descriptions

We’ve added a helpful new option to our TV Integration that lets you choose how incidents are displayed. With this update, you can enable expanded incident descriptions to show full details directly on your TV dashboard. This feature is perfect for teams that need more context at a glance, making it easier to stay informed and respond quickly without navigating elsewhere. You can find this option in the TV Integration settings – just check it for a more detailed view of incidents!

New alert options for Website and Ping monitoring

We’ve heard your feedback and added another handy improvement to Website monitoring and Ping monitoring —new alert settings to better fit your needs: These options make it easier to get the alerts that matter most to you. Check them out in the Website or Ping Monitoring configuration page and fine-tune your setup today!

Web Summit 2024: The future of AI and data governance

Last week, Lisbon was jam-packed with innovation as Web Summit 2024 saw over 70,000 attendees and 3,000 companies at one of the largest tech conferences in the world. Across the exhibition floor and track presentations, a clear theme emerged: while AI offers numerous benefits, its large-scale impact on data processing raises concerns among many parties, from consumers, legislators, and government bodies.

What is an Uptime SLA Guarantee and Should You Have One?

When someone visits your website or logs into your platform, they expect it to be available whenever needed. But downtime is inevitable, whether it’s an unexpected technical hiccup or necessary routine maintenance. Because of that certainty, tech vendors hold themselves accountable to their clients with an uptime service level agreement (SLA) guarantee. This guarantee sets clear expectations about how often your services will be available and what happens when those expectations aren’t met.

KubeCon NA 2024: Service Discovery, Security, and AI-Oh My!

Though KubeCon North America 2024 has officially come to a close, the CNCF's flagship event has left us buzzing with residual excitement. After all, waving goodbye to a crowd of 9,200+ attendees is never easy—especially with Salt Lake City's snow-capped mountains towering impressively in the background. However, it was our conversations with HAProxy booth visitors that truly stole the show.

Best practices for monitoring progressive web applications

Progressive web applications (PWAs) are a modern frontend architecture designed to provide a similar user experience to that of a native iOS, Android, or other platform-specific app. PWAs are built using common web platform technologies—such as, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript—and are intended not only to run in a browser and be accessed from the web, but also to be installed on users’ devices and accessed offline.

Keeping Time in Distributed Systems

We all know that keeping a server clock "on time" is an ongoing problem that computer scientists have wrestled with for decades. Nowadays, most servers keep time using a quartz crystal oscillator that's powered by a CMOS battery. The crystal vibrates at a very precise frequency and that's how it maintains accuracy (cool right). Events like rebooting and power loss can cause the server to abandon its primary clock source and fall back to an OS-level timekeeping system.