Introducing Global Parameters: Create and use custom name-value pairs to render dynamic content in email and HTTP configuration templates.
During the course of using your Site24x7 account, you may have felt the need to customize email templates or update HTTP configuration for your monitors. Our predefined incident parameters would have helped you build such templates with ease. When you enter the incident parameter in the respective message fields, the value of the specified parameter gets substituted in the context of the triggering event(s) when it sends the actual request or email. However, there's always a lack of customization
Catch up on all the cool features we have released so far - APM Insight & RUM
We've released a bunch of new application performance monitoring (APM) and real user monitoring (RUM) features in Site24x7. Here's a quick overview: Support for Single Page Applications (SPAs) With Site24x7 RUM, you can monitor applications based on Angular, Ember, React, Backbone, and other custom SPA frameworks. Analyze network paths using RUM Traceroute RUM Traceroute enables you to identify the network path a request took to get to your website, and every hop made in between. This helps you identify
CloudSpend is generally available and out of beta
After months of tireless work from our engineering team, we're excited to announce that Site24x7 CloudSpend, our cloud cost management solution for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is now officially available and out of beta as of today. We can't thank our users enough for their feedback and suggestions, you've helped us build a better product, and for that we're grateful. Existing beta users fret not we're not gonna start charging you. You can continue using the product until further communication regarding
[Service Update] Planned Maintenance of our Europe Data Center (March 15, 2019 to March 24, 2019)
Dear Customers, As part of network infrastructure upgrade at our Europe Data Center, we'll be switching Site24x7 service from our Primary Data Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands to our Secondary Data Center in Dublin, Ireland on March 15, 2019. At the end of the maintenance, we'll switch back to our Primary Data Center on March 24, 2019. To avoid any major hiccups, we'll perform this maintenance during non-business hours. https://www.site24x7.eu will continue to be accessible and we do not anticipate
[New Feature] Introducing Windows Server Backup Monitoring
We are glad to announce monitoring support for Windows server backups. Know the status of your Windows server backups; monitor events, disk usage and be instantly notified on backup failures. Install the Site24x7 Windows server monitoring agent in your servers and get the backup monitor automatically discovered and added for monitoring. Highlights: Get a summary of all your recent backups with their result. View the top disks using up maximum space for your backups. Set thresholds for each disk partition
Improved AWS Inventory Dashboard: New visualizations for better insight
A year back when we first introduced the AWS Inventory Dashboard, we wanted to provide users a single place where they could view a breakdown of their monitored resource types. Today, I am excited to announce that we're adding new visualizations (and doing away with some old ones) to make the dashboard even more useful. Below is a summary of those changes. The new Enabled Services view lists all the monitored AWS services, along with the total number of monitored resources under each service. To
Announcing lightweight APIs for obtaining the basic availability data of monitors
Site24x7 offers a comprehensive set of documented REST APIs for your monitoring and reporting needs. Today, we're introducing a new lightweight version of our existing Availability Summary APIs. With a relatively less API overhead and usage of archived data for reporting, these new set of lightweight endpoints increase the overall data retrieval speed a notch higher and significantly improves the performance and user experience. Reducing API overheads for a faster availability reporting In comparison
Site24x7 Business Units–A smarter way to monitor and manage your disparate IT assets
Most organizations with multiple business units have different monitoring, reporting, and alerting requirements for each of their business units. Some units may need to monitor creations and deletions, while others might need greater control over user
AWS Web Application Firewall integration: Gain insight into your web ACLs and rules
To promote consistent monitoring across your cloud apps, we're expanding our AWS monitoring footprint into the cloud security services domain. Today we're excited to announce our first such integration with AWS Web Application Firewall (WAF), a leading cloud native firewall service that simplifies security management. For Site24x7 customers, this means web access control list (ACL) monitoring in minutes; metrics, alerts, and dashboards; improved data retention; and more. Some use cases Imagine you've
Update: Introducing our brand new Alert email layout
The next time you receive an alert email from Site24x7, you’ll be in for a surprise. We’ll be rolling out our brand new status alert email that has been refurbished to give a clean and polished look and feel. Understanding the critical nature of alert emails, we’ve gone a step further and ensured to provide you with just the accurate data and metrics that matter the most for your business. Simultaneously, we’ve brought in the best design aspects of our new web client and tightly integrated it inside
AWS Step Functions integration: Start monitoring your state machine executions
AWS Step Functions alleviates the time-consuming process of linking Lambda functions using method dispatch or APIs by translating application logic into state machine-based visual workflows. While Step Functions makes it easier to turn discrete serverless components into real-world apps, Site24x7 is designed to provide visibility into your state machine executions so that you can make changes to your visual workflow with confidence. For example, you can observe and alert on timed-out or failed executions
Announcing Critical status in Site24x7: Define multiple threshold alerts for a single monitored attribute
Site24x7 offers powerful, yet ingenious ways to define alerting thresholds and mitigate false alerts for your monitors. When a threshold breach occurs, Site24x7 sends out a real-time trouble alert with a detailed summary of issues to facilitate incident remediation. There can be situations, however, when you want to receive separate alerts for different threshold-level breaches of a single monitor attribute. For example, you may want your on-call team to be alerted when your disk usage reaches 85
Monitor email sending activity with Site24x7's Amazon SES integration
Amazon Simple Email Service (SES) is designed to provide a highly deliverable email platform for businesses of all shapes and sizes. But, what exactly does highly deliverable mean? Also, how do you know whether the beautifully crafted newsletter or important transaction email you sent via SES is reaching your customers' inboxes? With Site24x7's newly added monitoring support for SES, you can now gather information about your email sending program. Observe and receive alerts on bounces and complaints
Monitor your Node.js application environment and stay ahead of outages with Site24x7 APM Insight
Ever since its introduction, Node.js has gained strong momentum among the developer community. According to Stack Overflow, Node.js was one of the most widely used technologies in 2017. Lower infrastructure costs, quicker development cycles, and hassle-free communication between the front end and back end have made Node.js popular in the startup community. However, as a Node.js application scales up, monitoring and optimization play a crucial role. Increased application response time is a direct
Monitor your file storage in AWS cloud with Site24x7
Whether you're migrating data sets to Elastic File System (EFS) from your on-premises servers or creating shared file storage for EC2 instances in a VPC, you need insight into resource usage across your file systems to optimize and address issues as and when they occur. Site24x7's latest AWS integration for EFS is designed to help you achieve this. For example, you can make informed decisions about moving your application to a file system using the Max I/O performance mode by tracking the percent
Create global benchmark reports for REST API and REST API Transaction monitors
Benchmarking is primarily about comparing and gauging the quality and effectiveness of different services to identify where there's room for improvement. Our Global Benchmarking Report for website lets you see how your website compares to others, which helps you quickly assess problem areas and establish realistic SLA goals for the future. Today, we're excited to announce that we've extended the benchmarking feature for your API endpoints and REST applications as well. Benchmarking your endpoints
Optimize your Redshift cluster performance with Site24x7
If you're using a cloud-hosted data warehouse service like Amazon Redshift to power your business reports, dashboards, or analytic tools, then you need to know much more than "Is my cluster up or down?" Site24x7's new AWS integration for Redshift is designed to give you comprehensive visibility into the health and performance of your clusters, so you can make informed decisions on scaling and resizing. For example, you can visualize performance data on the system-level resource usage of a cluster,
Feature enhancements: Real User Monitoring
Hello folks, We've enhanced our real user monitoring (RUM) features. Here's a quick sneak peek. 1. Easily analyze the time taken by your front-end resources CSS, images, scripts, XML—we've got it all covered. Identify the top time-consuming resources and their effects on the response time of your webpage. View the time taken by resources based on their corresponding domains. By default, Site24x7's RUM classifies your domains as first party, third party, or CDN. You can see the top resources based
New AWS integration: Elastic Container Service
Amazon's Elastic Container Service (ECS) makes it easy to build, run, and scale all types of containerized applications. Although Amazon ECS eliminates the need to manage and operate the infrastructure underlying your dockerized application, you still need system-level visibility into the various ECS components to effectively model service and task definitions. With the ECS integration, you can now use Site24x7 to get this visibility. For example, you can monitor CPU usage, memory utilization, and
Important! Changes to Microsoft Office 365 Monitoring
Following Microsoft's announcement on deprecating their PowerShell cmdlets within the Office 365 Reporting Web Services (effective from October 1, 2017), we now support monitoring of your Office 365 services using Microsoft Graph APIs and Service Communication APIs. Major Highlights of this Change: Authorization via Microsoft OAuth is mandatory to monitor your Office 365 servers Reports are populated using Graph APIs (Beta*) instead of PowerShell cmdlets Mail Traffic, Client Browser and Quarantined
[Enhancement] Perform synthetic transaction tests on Chrome with the Web Transaction (Browser) Monitor
Since the web is witnessing the adoption of newer and more ingenious scripts and CSS technologies, we've also decided to support these scripts by upgrading our nifty monitoring tools. Today, we’re excited to officially announce Chrome support for our Web Transaction (Browser) Monitor! Since Chrome is the most popular browser on the internet, this will give you insight on the overall experience for the majority of web users. You'll be able to playback and emulate web transactions from 100 global monitoring
[Enhancement] Executive Summary SLA report and API response format changes
As you may be aware, our Executive Summary SLA report lets you gather detailed insights on your overall availability and response time service level agreements (SLAs) of monitors in your group, for a specified period. With our new release, you can now view the average SLA compliance summary data in the report. We've also made some alterations to the JSON response format of the API. Let's delve into these changes in detail. Here's what's new with Executive Summary SLA report The Executive Summary
New Service View for your AWS integration
Hey folks, Today, we're introducing a new Service View to make it easier for you to visualize the current state of your AWS integration. The Service View provides a user interface to access information about what is being monitored and displays the monitor count summary across active AWS integrations in a compact card format. This view also prioritizes the cards, first sorting them by monitor count and then by integration state. You can click on the card of a service you're already monitoring to
New AWS integration: Amazon API Gateway
Hey folks, We're adding one more cloud service, Amazon API Gateway, to our growing list of supported AWS integrations (16 in total if you're keeping count). You can now monitor API execution metrics, visualize traffic patterns and processing times, track cache performance, and analyze error rates across all API stages within your deployment. You can also discover the addressable resource paths within an API and monitor API execution metrics for all defined methods. For more details, check out our
Advanced configurations for your AWS integration: Auto-assign thresholds, create monitor groups, reduce alert fatigue, and more.
Numerous customers have been asking for an improved AWS integration, and today we're happy to oblige with our new Advanced configurations. So without further ado, let's get straight into it. No more late night pages for AWS resource termination Alerts are a great way to stay updated on everything that's happening in your AWS cloud environment. However, there are certain alerts that teams don't want to receive, like alerts on informational or non-actionable events. One example is the AWS resource
[Feature enhancement] Flawlessly import and set up thousands of monitors in minutes.
As you may already know, manually configuring monitors is relatively time-intensive, especially when you’re creating thousands of monitors. Site24x7 offers a novel solution to this problem with its CSV file import feature. Today, we’re delighted to announce that we've made some updates to the template-based import monitor feature to make setting up monitors even simpler. What's changed with the new import feature? Site24x7 lets you export your complete monitor setup in a CSV file. Similarly, the
VMware Datastore Monitoring: Effectively manage storage requirements in virtualized environments
Why are datastores important in a vSphere environment? In a vSphere environment, VMware datastores act as virtual storage for virtual machines (VMs), meaning they need to be monitored for effective resource allocation. What types of datastores does Site24x7 monitor? VMware datastores are logical, virtual containers, which are similar to file systems. Based on the storage types, datastores are backed by one of two file formats—Virtual Machine File Storage (VMFS) or Network File System (NFS). Site24x7
Site24x7 Seminar in Chicago, August 07th, 2018
We're all set for our seminar tomorrow, and we'd like you to join us. We have an action-packed day of presentations, product demos, and a certification program designed just for you. Let’s get started. Our sessions are aimed at solving critical IT problems easily from the cloud. And as we progress, you'll be able to participate in interactive demos, connect with our product experts, and network with your peers. Seminar agenda: 8:45am - 9am - Registration 9am - 9:15am - Introduction 9:15am - 10am
Site24x7 Seminar in Washington, D.C., July 31st, 2018
Welcome you to our free seminar. We have an action-packed day of presentations, product demos, and a certification program designed just for you. Gear up and let’s get started. In the seminar you'll learn about: Monitoring your entire IT infrastructure from a single dashboard The importance of monitoring from outside the firewall Why end-user experience monitoring is important in the cloud era Finding the needle in the haystack - APM for DevOps Transforming from reactive to proactive monitoring with
New AWS cloud service integrations – AWS Direct Connect and VPC-VPN
Hey folks, Today, we're excited to announce monitoring support for two more AWS networking products – AWS Direct Connect and Amazon VPN. If you're migrating business-critical workloads and managing hybrid cloud environments, you can monitor and alert on the full range of metrics for both physical Direct Connect links and VPN connections between your on-premises network and AWS. A few important things you need to know about these integrations: Availability: The AWS Direct Connect and VPN connection
[Service Update] Scheduled Maintenance of our US Data Center: July 7th, 2018 – 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM PST
Dear Customers,
We've planned to upgrade our primary data center infrastructure in the USA on July 7th, 2018 from 7:30 PM to 10:30 PM PST. This upgrade will help us support our expanding server farm more efficiently.
For a seamless service during the maintenance, we'll be temporarily switching Site24x7 service to our secondary data center. We do not anticipate any interruptions in using Site24x7's service during this period. Nonetheless, we'll still monitor things very closely and keep you posted
[Feature enhancement] Ease your Bulk Action tasks with advanced search filtering
Most organizations today have the added challenge of monitoring and managing their large number of websites, applications, servers, and cloud environments. Site24x7's Bulk action feature has helped such teams save much time while enabling efficient management of their monitoring tasks. If you're someone who monitors a large number of resources, we've some great news for you! We've completed an extensive upgrade of our Bulk Actions Web UI to support advanced search operations. In this post, we will
[Important] Configure DNS to host Status Pages under custom domain
With Site24x7's status pages, you already have a powerful tool in-hand that lets you build customizable public status pages for your online business. Since we wanted to ensure end-to-end security of your hosted custom status pages, we've now made it mandatory to establish ownership over your root domain. From now on, to build a status page under your custom domain, you've to mandatorily update and verify the CNAME and TXT records in your DNS zone file. CNAME mapping of your custom domain By doing
Ending .NET 2.0 monitoring support
As announced in an earlier post, Site24x7—and by extension, APM Insight—is ending support at the end of July 2018 for TLS 1.0 and 1.1 protocols in our agents, clients, and servers. Implications for monitoring .NET applications Please note that .NET supports TLS 1.2 protocol only beginning with version 4.5, and Microsoft has stopped supporting all prior versions of .NET. That means applications compiled in .NET 2.0, 3.0, 3.5, and 4.0 will no longer be able to communicate with Site24x7 services after
Get smarter with your cloud deployment with full monitoring support for the Elastic Beanstalk service
As you may already know, Elastic Beanstalk lets you deploy and manage web applications without worrying about the administrative overhead of capacity provisioning, load balancing, and scaling. But since deployment automation means less visibility, operation teams can easily lose track of whats happening and can run into any of the following scenarios: The application becomes unavailable and stops responding to requests. Instances begin to run low on system resources. The load balancer has no healthy
Feature enhancements: Real User Monitoring
Greetings, We're back with a new set of enhancements for Real User Monitoring (RUM) and are giving you a sneak peek. You can now visualize the following aspects of response time and throughput: Country and state-based views for respective geographies: You can now view the response time and throughput for a country and each of its states individually. For example, you can view metrics for Australia as a whole on the world map, or view metrics for the northern and southern regions in the Australia
Site24x7 discontinues SMS service with Route Mobile
Dear customers, At Site24x7, we’ve been using multiple third-party carriers such as BulkSMS, Twilio, Clickatell and Route Mobile for delivering SMS-based alerts to our users. Effective May 25, 2018, we will discontinue Route Mobile service due to the low usage among users. As a replacement, we’ve successfully migrated all existing Route Mobile users to Twilio. Other third-party SMS carriers will continue to work as usual. To ensure a seamless alerting during a failure or service outage with your
Site24x7 gets ready for the GDPR
With the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on May 25, 2018, we at Site24x7 have been rolling out a number of changes to ensure we meet the guidelines. We're committed to protecting the confidentiality and security of the data our customers share with us. That's why we'd like to share some insight about all the important GDPR-related measures we've put in place to ensure compliance. Please read on for a quick summary of all our GDPR related updates. Encryption
AWS Monitoring service disruption
Dear Site24x7 customers, Today at 12.40 AM IST (23 May 2018) all the AWS accounts that were integrated via the Role ARN experienced unexpected downtime. On further inspection, we found that our principal AWS account that is allowed access to your resource got suspended due to a failure in the credit card auto-renewal process. Our finance team has already paid the past-due payments manually and are currently involved in the process of reactivating our account. We're also trying to put in measures
Monitoring Mail Server and Database availability of ManageEngine Service Desk Plus product using Site24x7
ManageEngine Service Desk Plus is an ITSM product which solves day-to-day IT problems for businesses. Proper functioning of critical components such as Mail Servers and Databases are important for the proper functioning of Service Desk Plus. Any failure to any of these components could trigger user frustration. Continuous monitoring of their availability should be done to ensure the product health is always good. Site24x7, a cloud monitoring tool provides the ability to keep a watch on the above
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