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Server Performance Guide: Key Metrics and How to Optimize

Everybody hates it when they have to wait for an application to load—or when an application doesn’t load at all. And if this happens with your application, you’re not just losing business but also losing brand value. Most applications today are online. So servers play a crucial role in keeping applications up and running. Application performance is directly proportional to server performance. Hence, it’s very important to monitor and improve server performance.

Listening to the Hype: OpsRamp featured in eight Gartner Hype Cycles

July is Hype Cycle season, the time of year when Gartner livens up the summer doldrums by updating its eagerly awaited Hype Cycle series of reports. This year’s Hype Cycles demonstrated OpsRamp’s growing brand recognition as we were listed as a representative vendor in eight different Gartner Hype Cycles.

How To - Push Device Configuration Changes

Fastest time-to-value and lowest TCO (total cost of ownership) are among the top 10 reasons that customers choose, love and continue using Netreo. Turning time-consuming administrative projects into simple tasks is one way Netreo consistently delivers superior value. But like all software solutions in use today, many Netreo features go unused or misunderstood by too many customers and would-be users.

10x development speed with local serverless debugging

In this article you’ll find out how to 10x your development speed with local serverless debugging. Questions such as “what happens when you scale your application into millions of requests?”, “what to expect when going serverless?”, “how does it look like?”, or “how is it to build applications on serverless and work locally?” will be addressed.

How Much Does a Digital Experience Leader Make in IT?

Have you ever tried to search for a leadership position in IT that’s dedicated exclusively to employee experience, sometimes listed as end user experience or Digital Employee Experience (DEX)? I’m not talking about a CXO (Chief Experience Officer) role outside of IT—that position is usually advertised for customer experience or employee communications and human resources. I’m talking strictly enterprise IT.

The Benefits of Centralized Log Management and Analysis

Log centralization is kind of like brushing your teeth: everyone tells you to do it. But until you step back and think about it, you might not appreciate why doing it is so important. If you’ve ever wondered why, exactly, teams benefit from centralized logging and analysis, keep reading. This article walks through five key advantages of log centralization for IT teams and the businesses they support.

How to Reduce Alert Fatigue: Preventing Noisy Alerts and Error Messages

Monitoring solutions are a vital component in managing an application’s environment. From the systems layer all the way up to the end user’s connection to the app, you want to find out how the platform is performing. Indicators like CPU, memory, the number of connections, and overall health help teams make informed decisions for guaranteeing uptime. Teams monitor metrics (short-term information) and logs (long-term information) mainly from a reactive perspective.

How to Notify Your Team of Errors: Email vs. Slack vs. PagerDuty

Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) and Operations (Ops) teams heavily rely on notifications. We use them to know what’s going on with application workloads and how applications are performing. Notifications are critical to ensuring SREs and Ops teams can resolve errors and reduce downtime. They’re also crucial when monitoring environments — not only when running in production but also during the dev-test or staging phase.

JavaScript Logging Basic Tips

In the past few years, JavaScript has evolved in several ways and has come a long way. With the evolving technology, machines are becoming more powerful, and browsers are getting more robust and compatible. In addition, Node.js’s recent development for JavaScript’s execution on servers, JavaScript has been getting more and more popular than ever before.

How to Ensure Patch Compliance

Patch compliance indicates the number of compliant devices in your network. This means the number of computers that have been patched or remediated against security threats effectively. The distribution and deployment of patches accomplish nothing if your devices are not compliant. So to establish a good patch management strategy, it is important to pay attention to the effectiveness and reach of your patch deployment activities.