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

11 steps to get your e-commerce website ready for Black Friday and Cyber Monday

The biggest shopping days of the year, Black Friday and Cyber Monday, are nearly upon us—again. If you’re on the development, operations, DevOps, or marketing team of a large e-commerce website, your busiest season is coming fast. Thanksgiving signals the start of long days, big sales, massive website traffic, and plenty of unexpected threats to your website’s uptime and performance.

Custom Headers on our WebHooks Integration

Exciting news! We have recently updated our Webhooks integration to allow custom headers in order to integrate with third party alarming tools. This update makes our webhooks integration more powerful and adaptable. The Webhook integration allows you to get RapidSpike notifications in your applications, and custom headers lets us send extra data along with the Webhook, which some third parties may require.

VirtualMetric and CloudLand helping SMEs to solve top IT challenges during the pandemic

VirtualMetric — the all-in-one monitoring solution provider and CloudLand — one of the leading IT distributors in the Netherlands, join efforts to help SMEs from the DACH region and the Netherlands to overcome the top IT challenges during the pandemic. Although the IT sector is one of the most stable during the global pandemic crisis, small and medium enterprises need to battle their specific problems – internal and external.

The Love/Hate Relationship with Legacy Software

Legacy systems have a bad rap. But let’s face it: enterprises rely upon them, especially in traditional sectors like financial services, transportation, manufacturing, logistics and government. How do you decide whether to keep, upgrade or outright replace legacy software? How do you balance new competitive needs with financial constraints in IT? OpsRamp’s senior product and engineering leaders, Bhanu Singh and Ciaran Byrne, will share their thoughts on legacy software --the good and the bad--in this live video chat.

[Webinar] Self-healing workflows with the Sensu Ansible Tower integration

Sensu Developer Advocate Jef Spaleta demos our Ansible Tower integration, walking through how it works, showing how you can achieve self-healing workflows and avoid manual workarounds with Sensu + Ansible. You'll also learn all about the Sensu Ansible Tower integration, including how it works with existing playbooks via Ansible Tower Job Templates.

Introducing the MongoDB Enterprise plugin for Grafana

MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases in the world, used by millions of developers to store application metrics from e-commerce transactions to hospital equipment inventory, from user logins to First World War diaries. MongoDB databases contain mountains of information that SREs, software engineers, and executives can visualize to run their businesses more effectively. Grafana dashboards are most effective when they are layered with context.

Deliver Great Remote User Experience on Citrix Workspace

When the pandemic hit and everyone went home to work, Citrix was the hero in many IT organizations. Citrix Workspace enabled IT organizations around the world to support their employees, almost overnight, and provide them with consistent, secure, and reliable access to everything they needed to be fully productive while working remotely. And while it was largely transparent to employees, a lot of work went on behind the scenes to make it happen.

Remote Prometheus Monitoring using Thanos

In a previous blog we learnt about setting up a Scalable Prometheus-Thanos monitoring stack. We also learnt about how we can cluster multiple Prometheus servers with the help of Thanos and then deduplicate metrics and alerts across them. MetricFire is a Hosted Prometheus solution, and you can use our product with minimal configuration to gain in-depth insight into your environments. If you would like to learn more about it please book a demo with us, or sign up for the free trial today.