Cloud

What Is Infrastructure Monitoring? More and more development happens in the cloud these days, and any new application you build today will likely be a cloud-native one. Though cloud-native development undeniably offers many advantages and flexibilities, these environments are also prone to complexities (such as containerization) and high resource utilization. This brings us to monitoring….

IT Infrastructure Definition IT infrastructure is the combination of an organization’s important assets, including hardware, software, applications, databases, network resources, and services. It enables organizations to utilize these components or assets to perform various tasks, such as managing IT environments and maintaining operations, IT policies, and processes to deliver business-critical services.  A well-managed IT infrastructure…

Why Is Cloud Monitoring Important? Over time, most businesses have seen a major shift in their paradigm. Prior to the Big Data era, hosting and monitoring data in-house was common. Companies had to invest huge amounts of money in the development and maintenance of robust infrastructures to store their data. Because of scalability, cost, and…

With an accelerated need for digital transformation, businesses are increasingly relying on data for decision making, and thus the value of data and the need to protect it have grown exponentially. Today, data backup is crucial for ensuring business continuity and security against the increasing pace of breaches and cyberattacks. A proactive approach to backup…

Data loss can happen in many ways—natural disasters, human error, security threats and cyber-attacks, and physical damage to name a few. The impact from data loss can be equally varied—revenue decline, customer churn, reputation damage, and more. Being able to quickly restore business-critical information is more crucial for businesses than ever before but it requires…

Today’s businesses rely on massive amounts of data to power everyday operations more than ever before, which makes data security one of the top priorities. As the number of devices, user interactions, and volumes of data are skyrocketing, it becomes critical for businesses to take regular backups of the applications and information stored on different…

Java is a common development language in part because of how well it works for programming tasks involving objects. Because so many organizations rely on Java applications for business-critical functions, providing adequate resources for these apps is essential. Running Java applications on Java Virtual Machines (JVMs) rather than on physical hardware can increase an organization’s…

The IIS web server is a central element of any Windows IT structure. SharePoint, Outlook, and general web activity all rely on IIS server availability and performance. Maintaining high-quality IIS performance is integral to ensuring uptime, reliability, and security. If there’s a problem with your server, your web presence will be negatively impacted, and end…

When it comes to creating and deploying web applications and platforms, Java is one of the most widely-used programming languages. Although Java is based on C and C++ syntax, developers use it because it allows them to adopt and deploy their code to nearly any platform or machine, regardless of operating system or architecture. Because…

As modern IT environments are complex and have a distributed setup with multiple servers, frameworks, and applications, it becomes difficult for teams to manage, monitor, and analyze servers without having a dedicated log analysis software. Moreover, the management of the Apache server requires timely and accurate feedback on its performance. This is where Apache Log…

It’s reported application/software downtime cost organizations $1.56 trillion in 2020. When you’re in a software/application-based business, you must be in complete control of your users’ digital experience. Furthermore, as applications become more elaborate and complex, you need to give your users the optimum experience to continue their user journeys. So how do you develop a…

Cloud-native digital products, including customer-facing websites and business-critical applications, are extremely important for most online businesses. Many businesses face challenges in maintaining high levels of uptime with a streamlined end-user experience due to increasing website traffic, application errors, server outages, and a myriad of other technical issues.

In this article, we look in-depth at both synthetic and real user monitoring and pit these two monitoring methods against each other. We discuss what you can expect to test and track, what insights you can expect to glean, and how you can use this knowledge to improve the performance of your website. After reading,…

One of the first tasks we get that we can clearly identify as “website monitoring” is often “make sure the website’s up.” We may be doing it for our personal website or blog, or that of a friend or relative running a business, or for work. Not only that, but monitoring whether a website is…

As every business depends significantly on its websites and applications for continuous operations, monitoring their health and performance is critical. Traditionally, uptime monitoring tools helped organizations check whether their webpages were loading smoothly and provided alerts whenever the pages failed to load. Though these uptime checks are still useful, organizations need more information about their…

Since a website is critical to your organization’s online presence, ensuring it’s accessible and responsive is essential. An unavailable website can severely affect visibility and brand reputation, lose valuable user traffic, and diminish user engagement. You need to ensure your website is available around the clock and accessible from any device in any region. This…

Websites have become a very important part of almost every business. They increase the reach of your business to a wider audience because anybody with an internet connection can access it. When the reach of your website is so long, there’s no room for anything that could leave a negative impression. Along with the kind…

Be it SQL Server or the improved version of SQL Server on the cloud called as SQL Azure, when it comes to monitoring, there is nothing as powerful as DMVs (Dynamic Management Views). For a primer, Dynamic Management Views (DMVs) are a set of virtual views which expose the internal states of SQL Server deployment….

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a secure cloud services platform that has become a key contributor to business growth and scaling. It provides virtual equivalents to traditional hardware components, like CPU and storage, while offering practically unlimited data flexibility due to its cloud-based services. AWS offers computing with almost no overhead, which means your business…

Until recently, performance certainty has mostly been left in the hands of a system’s makeup and its database administrator’s work ethic. Ever since the idea of virtually always-online file storage database management systems (DBMS) passed with corporate leaders, uptime has been assumed. Amazon, Google, and other cloud infrastructure providers became the go-to guys. Uptime became…

Today, most organizations have complex IT infrastructure with a wide range of endpoints, including servers, applications, and the cloud. As it’s difficult for businesses to analyze a huge amount of log data, organizations prefer using log analysis tools to centralize, analyze, and monitor logs. These tools reveal useful information about web app performance, security concerns,…