Amazon CloudWatch is a popular option for collecting system and performance metrics from your AWS resources. For some services, it’s the only means available to collect badly needed metrics data. CloudWatch makes it trivially easy to fetch core system metrics like CPU, Network, and Disk, as well as more specialized metrics like queue-sizes and latency … Read moreHow To Make CloudWatch AWSome
Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) is so business critical that it’s featured in a Gartner magic quadrant. At the same time, it is so new that even Wikipedia does not know what it is. (related read: What is Digital Experience Monitoring (and Why Should You Care)? Why is that? Monitoring as a practice is as old as dirt, … Read moreThe Evolution of the Web and Digital Experience Monitoring
People using our services would be very familiar with our basic HTTP Uptime check by now. After all, it’s our most used feature. Something a lot of our users might not know is that you can make the HTTP checks more advanced by using the Optional settings of the check. You find these settings under … Read moreMake the most of your HTTP check: best practice for optional settings
