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A Checklist for Your Website Launch

Launching your business website is a big step, but, if you don’t know how to launch a website the right way, you’re just wasting time. There are many considerations, including design, functionality, SEO, testing, marketing, analytics, and security. Assuming you’ve designed and built a site that’s ready to go, your website launch checklist should include the following.

Mastering website monitoring with Applications Manager

In the digital era, most enterprises use a web platform to reach potential customers and showcase the products or solutions they offer. Websites have become extremely popular as a medium of establishing a brand image, and they contribute in making a major share of revenue. Well-planned websites can capture the attention of the target audience, increasing the probability of them turning into valuable, paying customers.

How ML6 used Grafana to deliver a 200% ROI for Accolade Wines

Did you know that Grafana pairs well with a fine wine? That’s what machine learning company ML6 discovered when they worked with their client Accolade Wines, an award-winning Australian vintner whose goal was to decrease the waste produced in its global operations. “Accolade Wines is really focused on being as efficient as possible,” says Rebecca Brooke, ML6’s team leader in the U.K. “They’re always looking at minimizing their environmental impact.”

Is the role of ITSM only limited to IT? Understanding Enterprise Service Management

Enterprises are facing new challenges not just in terms of staying relevant in the market and customers but also in controlling internal organizational chaos. Over the years, there have been a number of frameworks and models that were consistently being rolled out to assist enterprises to declutter operational and organizational challenges, streamline enterprise services and service delivery, and identify loopholes and fix them.

Fault Monitoring vs. Performance Monitoring: What's The Difference? | Obkio

Fault Monitoring vs. Network Monitoring: What are the differences and when do you need either solution? Where do we start when users or employees complain about poor network performance? And what tools are available to help? Check out our video to learn about the differences between Fault Monitoring and Networking Monitoring and what may be the right solution for your needs, in under 2 minutes. Every IT professional knows that users typically complain about two things: Something doesn’t work. Something is slow slow.

6 Tips for Improving Drupal Performance

Providing a top digital user experience is critical if you want to grow the number of visitors and keep them engaged. Anything you can do to improve your Drupal website will have an impact on your business and ultimately revenue. Luckily, there’s much you can do to optimize your Drupal website, including implementing a range of tools and services, and installing extra Drupal modules. In this article, we consider how to improve Drupal site performance.

Best Log Management Tools in 2020, and How to Select One for Your Organization

In modern digital environments, logs are present everywhere. From networking devices, servers, and databases, to operating systems, cloud-based services, and applications, every component produces some form of digital records of events. These records or logs provide an audit trail for Security Information Event Management (SIEM) and help in performance monitoring of servers and applications.

HoneyByte: Incremental Instrumentation Beyond the Beeline

“It turns out,” said Liz, “it was not a giant pile of work to start adding those rich instrumentation spans as you need them.” Liz Fong-Jones was telling dev.to’s Molly Struve about an error she encountered while trying to update her dev.to profile. When she entered honeycomb.io into the Employer URL field, the app responded with an angry red box...

Debugging in production with Stackdriver Debugger - Stack Doctor

Did you know you can debug your code while it’s still in production? In this video, Yuri Grinshteyn speaks about the Stackdriver Debugger, and how you can use it with Node.js. More importantly, he talks about the two ways in which this tool can debug by creating snapshots, or logging in real-time. Product: Google Cloud Operation Suite; fullname: Yuri Grinshteyn;

The Uptime.com Report for 2019

Unplanned downtime can drive significant losses in the form of unrealized revenue. Teams may be caught off guard, or may face an outage outside their control, extending downtime hours unnecessarily. Without automated monitoring and alerting, teams face undetected outages that silently threaten SLA fulfillment. The recommendations in this report are best used as a guide on what trends may drive Site Reliability Engineering in the near term.