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

Custom timeframes are here!

In the realm of data and observability, timing is everything. Until now, SquaredUp provided fixed time options like the last hour, 12 hours, 24 hours, last week, and this month. While these options served many users well, we recognized that they lacked the flexibility you needed. Whether you're tracking long-term performance, comparing trends, or looking into specific events, we know these preset options could sometimes feel limiting.

Farewell, Cherwell: Celebrations, Migrations, and Considerations

As Cherwell approaches end of life, IT service management (ITSM) teams are facing major decisions about what’s next. In this episode, SolarWinds host Sean Sebring sits down with Matt Neigh, a former Cherwell executive, and Michael Clark, a SolarWinds Solutions Engineer and former Cherwell admin, to reflect on Cherwell’s legacy, explore migration best practices, and discuss what to look for in a modern ITSM platform.

Structured Logging in NextJS with OpenTelemetry

Traces tell you what happened and when. Logs tell you why. When something breaks, logs are often your first clue—and if they’re correlated with traces, they can cut debugging time down from hours to minutes. In this section, we’ll wire up end-to-end structured logging across both server and browser environments in your Next.js app, complete with trace correlation and SigNoz integration.

Advanced Threshold Configurations in Site24x7

Are constant, trivial alerts overwhelming your IT and DevOps teams? In this video, learn how Site24x7's Advanced Thresholds provide smarter alerting by understanding meaningful patterns and anomalies, improving focus and response to real issues. We'll walk you through: Whether you're a system admin, network engineer, or IT manager, this feature helps you streamline alert management.

Getting started with Cloudflare dashboards

Cloudflare is a widely adopted web performance and security platform, best known for its CDN, DDoS protection, and DNS services. While it provides rich telemetry and real-time analytics, the sheer volume and complexity of the data can make it hard to identify key trends or issues at a glance. This is where a solution like SquaredUp (or another dashboarding tool) comes in.

Harnessing Network Observability to Speed the Telco-to-Techco Transition

For telecommunications firms (telcos), the race is on. If these organizations are to rise to meet their top challenges and growth objectives, transformation is a must. Those who make this move most rapidly will be best positioned for sustained success. Today, telcos face several significant challenges, which are creating fundamental disruption: Telcos need to transform to contend with these shifts.

The Visibility vs Cost Trap: A Dangerous Tradeoff

“You can’t investigate what you don’t have”. Every analyst knows the pain of missing context. You’re in the middle of a high-stakes investigation, but the logs you need are gone, archived weeks ago due to retention limits. Or worse, they were never collected in the first place to keep costs under control. This is the Visibility vs. Cost trap, and it puts analysts at a disadvantage every day.

OpManager earns triple recognition in 2025

We’re pleased to share that ManageEngine OpManager has earned recognition across three critical areas of IT operations, achieving triple crown status in IT infrastructure management. OpManager has been featured in GetApp’s Category Leaders, Software Advice’s Front Runners, and Capterra’s Shortlist, in addition to being named in the Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM).

Real User Monitoring (RUM) vs. Synthetic Monitoring: Understanding Best Practices

For modern engineering and DevOps teams, user experience isn’t a post-deployment concern, it’s a critical operational metric. Monitoring how real users interact with your application is no longer optional, especially in high-traffic, dynamic, or global environments. This is where real user monitoring (RUM) proves indispensable. But RUM isn’t the only approach.