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Web API Monitoring Explained: A Helpful Introductory Guide

An API, application programming interface, is a collection of tools, protocols, and subroutines that can be used when building software programs or applications. APIs makes software development easier by providing reusable components and a set of clearly defined communication protocols. Recently APIs have come to mean web services, but there are also APIs for software and hardware libraries, operating systems and databases.

Cloud Providers Health Report - November 2022

Check our November 2022 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.

Cloud Providers Health Report - October 2022

Check our October 2022 health report on the top most popular cloud providers. We analyze the health of the cloud providers based on the number of outages and problems during the month. The source of the data is made available by the cloud providers themselves via their status page. We normalize it and use it to generate the report.

Building AppStack Dashboards

AppStack™ helps you diagnose and troubleshoot performance problems faster—from applications to servers, virtualized infrastructure, databases, and storage systems. The AppStack dashboard shows you all performance information across the application stack with relationships between various elements of your environment. Kevin M. Sparenberg, SolarWinds THWACK Community Evangelist, shows you how the dashboard works and why it’s so important for troubleshooting application issues in your IT infrastructure.

ManageEngine turns 20 | This is our story

ManageEngine turns 20 this year and we want to take this opportunity to thank our customers, who have made this journey so special. In this video, our leadership team takes you through the journey of ManageEngine, from its inception to the road ahead. Our leaders discuss the role our customers have played in creating and perfecting solutions to help simplify your IT needs and how your input and feedback has not only shaped us into the organization we are today, but continues to prepare us for the future.

How Microsoft Has Further Developed the Microsoft Teams Environment

Over the past three years, the Microsoft Teams environment has become the de facto voice communication tool for a large percentage of organizations. But with many companies having implemented their Teams setup rapidly in the face of a dramatically changing business setting, some IT teams have been struggling to know how to get the most out of their Teams environment.

What is Network Flow Monitoring, and Why You Shouldn't Live Without It

Old network salts likely know all about network flows and the value of network flow monitoring. As former News Editor for Network World and Editor in Chief of Network Computing, network flows are part of my old stomping grounds. In fact, I remember when Cisco invented NetFlow in the late 1990’s to collect traffic data from its routers and switches so it could be analyzed by network pros.