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The latest News and Information on Monitoring for Websites, Applications, APIs, Infrastructure, and other technologies.

Going up? Uptrends expands to a second floor

Uptrends has always focused on providing a quality product with solutions to solve real problems for businesses of all sizes. Staying laser-focused on our customers’ needs led to organic growth that has expanded at a comfortable pace over the last thirteen-plus years. However, slow, steady growth is relative to the size of the endeavor, and as our products and services grew, so did the resources needed to sustain growth. So we grew—faster than expected.

How Hacker News Crushed DavidWalshBlog

Earlier this month, David’s heartfelt posting about leaving Mozilla made the front page of Hacker News. Traffic increased by 800% to his already-busy website, which slowed and eventually failed under the pressure. Request Metrics monitors performance and uptime for David’s blog, and our metrics tell an interesting story. Here’s what happened, why, and what you can do to prepare your site for traffic surges.

Tutorial: Monitoring Your Core Web Vitals

Web performance used to be easy. You’d time how long a page takes to load, easy. But the rise of client-side JavaScript has introduced bold new ways for websites to be frustratingly slow. Measuring this new slowness will take new metrics. Google calls them the Core Web Vitals. Each of the Core Web Vitals measures a different aspect of how a web application responds. This post will take a look at each of these metrics, what they measure, and how to use them.

Building your modern SIEM, Unique security requirements for cloud and modern technologies

Digital transformation has changed the attack surface, and organizations are generating more data than ever before. What does this mean from a security standpoint? Attend this session and hear more about what makes a modern SaaS SIEM solution and why it’s critical for detecting threats across your hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructures. Finally, we’ll explore what tomorrow’s SIEM might look like.

Full-stack AWS monitoring with Site24x7

Monitor individual AWS resources and application workloads that run on Amazon Web Services. Site24x7 offers unified cloud monitoring for DevOps and IT operations. Monitor the experience of real users accessing websites and applications from desktop and mobile devices. In-depth monitoring capabilities enable DevOps teams to monitor and troubleshoot applications, servers and network infrastructure including private and public clouds. End user experience monitoring is done from 90+ locations across the world and various wireless carriers.

Alert Sync 2.0 is here!

Alert Sync converts critical Alerts into actionable Incidents using real-time, two-way synchronization. This seamless integration of SCOM and ServiceNow, creates the perfect partnership between Alerts & Incidents, so you can successfully manage them throughout the lifetime of an issue. Gone are the days of scripting, we've baked all this into our new features, saving you time & optimizing incident management, with our cool new features.

What's the best way to create ServiceNow Incidents from SCOM?

If you have ServiceNow and SCOM you will want to integrate these tools to ensure they deliver maximum value for your business. There are four key benefits of creating ServiceNow incidents from SCOM: 1) Increase value of existing infrastructure monitoring tools by consolidating information and integrating them with connectors. 2) Understand root cause of the problem and reduce Mean Time to Repair (MTTR) by transforming incidents into actionable alerts.