StatusGator monitors 411 different status pages, amassing a mountain of data about each. From when they are down and for how long, to what they post, to which pages people monitor the most and everything in between. Using that data, we are proud to present the first of an annual reflection on the past year. The First Annual StatusGator Status Page Awards seeks to applaud (and perhaps gently shame) a number of cloud services that stood out to us among our massive trove of status page data.

Last month OpsRamp delivered our Winter release, which introduced several innovations for digital operations management, including: Impact Visibility and Service Context, AIOps for Proactive IT Operations, Cloud Native Monitoring and Event Management

Raygun’s Launch Notes are your regular round-up of all the improvements we made to Raygun last month—from major features to performance updates.

As application architecture moves from monoliths to microservices, observability has become a growing challenge. The services that make up a distributed application, and the many dependencies and communication pathways between them, are difficult to govern and observe. You can get more control and visibility of your application by including a service mesh—a layer of infrastructure that manages traffic among microservices.

Infrastructure Monitoring refers to the constant tracking, collection and analysis of data about the infrastructure/server. Using this data, you can monitor the performance and the behavior of the hosts at the infrastructure level. You can also identify the issues that are of concern. For instance, you can periodically check and monitor the health of the hosts and if any slow downs occur, it’s easy to alert the users.

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