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Successful Website Migration Checklist

Are you in the process of migrating your content to a new website? If so, you’ll already know that this is one of the most taxing and demanding experiences a webmaster or business owner can undergo. Unfortunately, the process known as content migration is a necessary part of a website redesign. This is where content elements such as text, images and videos, are migrated from your old website to the new design.

How to Get Started With Your Website Content Security

The rate of cyberattacks is alarming. The number keeps increasing every year. According to the FBI’s 2019 Internet Crime Report, in 2018, cybercrime leads to a $2.7 billion loss. This means that you have to up your game when it comes to protecting your website content. You can prevent cyber attacks by controlling any form of data that comes from users.

New SCA-ready Payments System

The Downtime Monkey payments system looks super simple but behind the scenes it's not trivial... This took several months to develop in 2017 and we're proud to say it worked like clockwork. So when we learned that we'd have to redevelop the system to comply with new SCA regulations you can understand that we weren't overcome with enthusiasm...

How Grafana Labs Is Running Jaeger at Scale with Prometheus and Envoy

At Grafana Labs, we are always working on optimizing query time on our Grafana Cloud hosted metrics platform, which incorporates our Metrictank Graphite-compatible metrics service, and Cortex, the open source project for multitenant, horizontally scalable Prometheus-as-a-Service.

Introducing Self-Service Transaction Monitoring-Beta

We’ve released our newest feature, Self-Service Transactions (SST), for the beta release. Although you can still have us take care of the scripting for you (Full-Service Transactions), with SST you write and manage your own scripts. You can use our handy visual Step Editor, write your code directly into the text editor, or interface with our API.

How to collect and manage all of your multi-line logs

Multi-line logs such as stack traces give you lots of very valuable information for debugging and troubleshooting application problems. But, as anyone who has tried knows, it can be a challenge to collect stack traces and other multi-line logs so that you can easily parse, search, and use them to identify problems. This is because, without proper configuration, log management services and tools do not treat multi-line logs as a single event.