The impact of the internet on the business world cannot be understated, with words like 'revolutionised' and 'elevated' regularly employed to describe the current climate. The last three decades have seen businesses gradually adapting to the internet and performing more and more of their operations online.

In today’s digital economy, speed is everything. Especially for applications and websites accessed by end users, when there is slowness, it will have a direct detrimental impact on business productivity, profits and even the brand itself. If an ecommerce application loads slowly or experiences errors, it will translate into loss of business, and the customer might end up switching to another website – possibly your competitor.

We’ve got a few things to update you on this week: Bulk Upload for TCP and PING type tests, Mobile Responsiveness updates, Brazilian Currency now supported, Force Test tool added to SSL.

Today we’d like to shine the spotlight on another of our great integrations for receiving StatusCake alerts to your mobile device or browser. It’s a great integration to use if you’d like to get your alerts from StatusCake completely free of charge, and has a rich selection of features on both the free and pro plan (which comes at a subscription cost for more advanced users).

We’re happy to announce that our Go tracer v1.0.0 has been released. The latest version represents a major overhaul, and includes performance improvements, more robust compatibility with tracing standards, and a new and improved API. It incorporates continuous feedback not only from our community, but also from extensive internal usage here at Datadog.

In this post, you will learn the easiest way of monitoring high level applications’ database statements (JDBC) performance via WLSDM Back-End system monitoring features. If your application has slow JDBC execute statements then these statements need to be tuned by DBA or developer.

We’ve launched a new iteration of Icinga Exchange last autumn and modernized the look and feel as well as improved the overall user experience. Since then we’ve solved a few issues and made some enhancements. Just small things to make it a little better.

Today we’d like to talk a little about our integration with Pagerduty. We’ll go through some of the benefits of using this product in conjunction with StatusCake and overview the functionalities that are unique to this integration.