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

OpsLogix VMware MP: Introducing vSAN support

VMware vSAN is a core component for the delivery of your Software Defined Data Center. The newly added monitoring capabilities will support your IT-Operations with even better App-To-Cloud Visibility of your business-critical applications running in the VMware platform. When the new version of our Management Pack is available, a complete release note will be added with all the new exciting features. But for now, we can reveal some of the key components we monitor.

Configure custom SSL certificate expiration thresholds

When we first launched Oh Dear, we had a fixed certificate expiration timer: 14 days. As soon as the expiration date came within 14 days, we'd start sending a daily reminder to hurry up and renew those certificates. Our first exception was made when Let's Encrypt gained more in popularity. We started notifying Let's Encrypt certificates 7 days before expiration date.

Business Payload Analyzer: How to Track and Trend Business KPIs

Business Payload Analyzer, a capability in Application Performance Management is designed for application owners who want greater visibility into how the end-user experience and business KPIs align with application performance to help prioritize issues based on user experience and improve the digital experience. In this video, we will demonstrate how to leverage Business Payload Analyzer to track and trend business KPIs. To learn more, visit broadcom.com/apm.

Business Payload Analyzer: How to Enable Custom Transaction Naming

Business Payload Analyzer, a capability in DX Application Performance Management is designed for application owners who want greater visibility into how the end-user experience and business KPIs align with application performance to help prioritize issues based on user experience and improve the digital experience. In this video, we will demonstrate how to enable custom transaction naming using Business Payload Analyzer. To learn more, visit broadcom.com/apm.

Employee Experience Monitoring Demo

With so many businesses now reliant on software-as-a-service (SaaS) applications, monitoring the availability, performance, and reachability of those applications is critical to protecting your employees' productivity, and by extension, your revenue streams. This video explains how Catchpoint's Employee Experience monitoring solution is designed to help companies understand how their network, application, and end users' devices impact the entire employee digital experience. Get the visibility and insight required to be more proactive, reduce costs, and boost productivity.

How To Keep Traffic Spikes from Crashing Your Website

At first glance — and probably second and third as well — having too much traffic seems like a really nice problem to have; like when billionaires struggle to decide which yacht to buy (“I say Thurston, the one with the tennis courts is quite lovely, but the one with the outdoor cinema is so charming”). However, too much traffic really is a problem, because it causes websites to either dramatically s-l-o-w down (which is terrible) or crash (which is worse than terrible).