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

The Market Lacked the Tool We Wanted. So We Built it Ourselves.

Hi! My name is Mattias Geniar and together with my partner Freek Van der Herten we founded Oh Dear!, a new tool focused on monitoring websites. We both got fed up with existing tools that didn't fit our needs precisely. Most came close, but there was always something — whether settings or design choices — that we just didn't like. Being engineers, the obvious next step was to just build it ourselves!

How End-to-End IT Monitoring Helps ITSM and DevOps Initiatives

eG Enterprise is an end-to-end IT performance monitoring and digital intelligence platform that provides actionable analytics to help detect, diagnose and troubleshoot application performance slowdowns. Watch this video and learn how eG Enterprise can help provide performance assurance and set you up for success in your ITSM and DevOps initiatives.

Hello to new Sysdig documentation.

I am very excited to share our brand new Sysdig documentation website. Our documentation team has been working very hard for the past few months. They have rewritten the majority of our product and support content and introduced an intuitive navigation structure to help you quickly find what you need. Sysdig Docs are now organized into Platform, Monitor and Secure sections.

Raygun & Pivotal Tracker - Building Better, Faster, Stronger Software as a Team

Sometimes it's hard to balance product delivery deadlines with tackling technical debt, or quickly build features whilst maintaining code quality. In this webinar we'll discuss some of the challenges product managers and developers face when building software at speed within development teams.

What Happened with Microsoft's Outage Last Week?

On the morning of September 4th, 2018 a number of customers experienced sign-in problems related to an outage for Azure, Azure AD and, in turn, Office 365. The issue was caused by an outage in Microsoft’s South Central U.S. datacenter. The problem ended up affecting customers in other regions, too, as we will see.

Pivotal Cloud Foundry: Two Tiles Are Better Than One

In an earlier blog in our series on monitoring applications deployed to the Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) platform, my colleague Jeff Holmes described how AppDynamics provides an intuitive and user-friendly dashboard for a single view of all your key performance indicators for system health and availability. This broke new ground and has been warmly welcomed by our many customers who rely on PCF to run their business applications.

Auvik Use Case #2: Automatically Acquiring Network Inventory

To effectively support and manage a client’s network, you need to know what’s really on the network. Sure, a tour of the IT environment will help. You’ll be able to slowly document information about the devices you can see, like the make, model, and serial number. But what about the devices you can’t see—or that the client doesn’t know about?