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Real User Monitoring vs Synthetic Monitoring Comparison: What Should You Use? | Sematext

What is a real user monitoring tool? and what is a synthetic tool? Which monitoring tool do you really need? In this comparison video, we will look at the pros and cons of monitoring your site with synthetic vs. real user monitoring tools. Ultimately, we will see that these two technologies work together to ensure that your website runs well and is optimized for the end-user.

Logbook: Team Discussion and Full Incident History

We've launched a feature that will help you fix errors and performance issues as a team! 🎉 With Logbook you get the full incident history. Read and leave team comments, see which notifications were sent at what time, and see team activity for changes in incident states. It's now easier than ever to see what the current state of an incident is.

Shipa Product Updates - 1.7.0 Release

We are really excited today to announce the Shipa 1.7.0 Release. Lots of great features and enhancements are packed in the latest release of Shipa. Several features coming from our customers and community, and you can now submit your ideas via the Idea Portal. Let’s take a look at what has been cooking at Shipa and upcoming events that you can catch us at.

Get more from your Jira integration with custom field support

When FireHydrant originally launched our Jira Cloud and Jira Server integrations, we did not support custom fields. This prevented customers who rely on Jira epic ticket types or other custom required fields from getting full value from our Jira integrations. That has changed with the launch of Jira custom field support. We now support the most common type of Jira epic tickets and field-level mapping of Jira custom fields with FireHydrant incident data.

mooving to... Practical Post-Mortems | Thomas Duran, Senior Manager of Productivity, from Panther

Post-mortems are a common practice amongst many organizations, but not everyone knows how to make the most out of an incident. Thomas Duran, Senior Manager of Productivity, from Panther joins us to discuss how to leverage post-mortems to effectively learn from failure.

Overview of Check Types

00:26 Web Checks

00:31 HTTP(S) Check

01:13 Transaction Check

01:45 API Check

02:38 RUM Check

03:12 Malware and Virus Checks

03:37 SSL Check

04:00 Network Checks

04:04 WHOIS/Domain Expiry Check

04:19 DNS Check

04:43 Ping (ICMP) Check

04:59 NTP Check

05:22 SSH Check

05:34 TCP/UDP Port Checks

05:54 Email Checks

05:59 IMAP, POP, SMTP and Domain Blacklist Checks

06:37 Custom Checks

Elastic on Elastic: How we saved $100,000/month by keeping our own software up to date

Let's start with the bottom line: When we upgraded to Elasticsearch 7.15 last year, our internal observability clusters saw a reduction in inter-node traffic from 464TB to 204.5TB per day. We monitored this reduction through subsequent upgrades and noticed its impact on our data transfer and storage costs. So here it is: upgrading saved Elastic $3,500 per day, or approximately $100,000 a month, or $1.2 million annually.

AppScope 1.0: Changing the Game for Infosec, Part 2

We’re introducing AppScope 1.0 with a series of stories that demonstrate how AppScope changes the game for SREs and developers, as well as Infosec, DevSecOps, and ITOps practitioners. This blog is the second of two Infosec stories. For both Part 1 and Part 2, Randy Rinehart, Principal Product Security Engineer at Cribl, contributed extensively.