Your 5G infrastructure monitoring checklist
5G technology, with its speed 10 times faster than 4G LTE, can help businesses realize many long-held goals, like real-time augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), distributed machine learning within the Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous vehicles, smart cities, edge computing, etc. While 5G technology is imminent and likely to transform the pace of business operations, it will bring scalability challenges along with changes to networking architectures. Challenges that come with 5G technology
Coronavirus (Covid-19) Update
This post provides an update on how Site24x7, a division of Zoho, is adapting to the outbreak of the coronavirus and how this might impact your interaction with us. We will continue to update this post, as the situation evolves. Given the increasing global infection rates of the coronavirus (Covid-19), we have changed some of our work policies to first prioritize the safety of our employees, their families, and all our customers and business associates. Working from Home Policy As of March 4, Zoho
Monitoring the infrastructure that supports remote work with Site24x7
As a result of the global COVID-19 outbreak, organizations are increasingly encouraging employees to work remotely to preserve their well-being and ensure uninterrupted business productivity. Digital transformation has made this remote adoption possible
The 4 types of metrics you should monitor to keep your servers under control
"Why is my server down?" is a common question that comes up among system administrators and infrastructure managers quite often. Inefficient server monitoring and management often make it difficult to analyze the unpredictable and complex information running through data centers and discover the reason for an outage. That's when an effective server monitoring tool comes in handy. However, the real challenge lies in selecting appropriate server management software and monitoring the right performance
Troubleshooting complex applications faster
With the advent of the cloud and microservices, application architectures have become complex, and monitoring their performance is critical in protecting your business' bottom line. To troubleshoot performance problems quickly and achieve a reduced mean
The role of AIOps in the DevOps story
Beginning with huge systems occupying large physical space, technology has enabled smaller, versatile devices that can be used anywhere at anytime. From the communications and hospitality industries to the public sector, either on-premises, cloud, or hybrid services were employed to make processes cost-effective. With the digitization of IT ushering in innovative ideas in response to societal and technological transitions, developments became faster, requiring businesses to up their game with more
How 5G can pave the way for emerging technologies
From the discovery of fire to the development of the internet, society’s need to communicate and live as a social unit has inspired endless innovation. Soon we'll be witness to the pinnacle of wireless technology: fifth-generation wireless networks (5G). By allowing users to communicate and share data at breakneck speed, 5G could prove to be a paradigm shift in information consumption and sharing. 5G's impact will be felt in various industries, perhaps not from the get go, but gradually with time.
Top 5 APM Trends to Watch Out for in 2020
From monolithic architecture to distributed systems and microservices, the art of application development has changed over the years, and the needs for monitoring those applications have evolved with it. Application performance monitoring (APM) solutions
An in-depth look at Linux: Its inception, adoption, and how to effectively monitor it
With Linux turning 28 years old, the operating system continues to be the predominant choice for serious computing among IT system developers for a variety of reasons, including its stability, secure nature, flexibility, and speed. Linux: How the story
Four reasons why SMBs need network monitoring
As businesses grow, so do their networks and the challenges that come along with managing them. For small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), however, tight budgets and fewer resources make it even more challenging for network admins to manually track
Everything you need to monitor a website
Website downtime can cause serious damage not only for your reputation and brand image, but also in productivity, all of which leads to business losses. A Gartner survey revealed that website downtime can cost companies up to $5,600 per minute. Recently,
Mobile APM: The Catalyst for User Experience Management
In the era of millennials and Gen Z, there's an app for everything. In fact, Apple trademarked the sentence, "There's an app for that," nearly 10 years ago. Today, with more than 2.47 million apps available across the App Store and Google Play Store, they're not only a convenient and affordable means to access a service; they have become extensions and expressions of ourselves and our personalities. But not all apps are essential to a person's life or lifestyle. While an average user has over 80
Reinventing Hybrid Monitoring with AI and Automation
Adoption of hybrid cloud-public cloud services with on-premises resources, is gaining prominence among SMBs and large enterprises alike. This is principally because organizations can still maintain some elements of their enterprise on-premises while running other applications, like the e-commerce front-end in the cloud. However, this diversity has created numerous interdependencies between the elements and increased the need for monitoring every component of the hybrid cloud infrastructure. Maintaining
Server monitoring best practices for superior server performance
Server admins are tasked with keeping an eye on server availability 24x7 and ensuring all mission-critical applications are up and running; this includes monitoring CPU, memory, and disk performance. It's critical for server admins to understand how to
2019 - Year in review! Untangling monitoring intricacies, one metric at a time.
Thank you for helping us achieve many of the goals we set for 2019. We value you, our customers, as our most important assets, and we'd like to take a moment to reflect on what we accomplished together. For Site24x7, 2019 was a busy year. We launched new monitoring capabilities, integrated with new services, forged new partnerships, rolled out a smarter and faster iOS app, and released new upgrades for CloudSpend. We also introduced monitoring capabilities for more than 20 new AWS services, and we
Top Five Website Trends for 2020
The new year is fast approaching, and many of us will make resolutions in preparation for 2020. As you make your own personal pledge to change an undesired trait or behavior, or to accomplish a personal improvement goal, take a closer look at some of the changes you can make on the business side of things. Perhaps your organization’s websites could use some improvements of their own. Looking at website trends is a good place to start, but with new technology advancements being revealed on a near-daily
Where is the enterprise network market heading in 2020?
The networking field is changing quickly with the emergence of new technologies. This change, along with the onset of digital transformation and increasing cloud-adoption, highlights how businesses have realized the importance of the third platform, as it interconnects mobile computing, cloud computing, social media, and information analytics. 2019 has been the year of edge computing and the dawn of the SD-WAN. While 2020 will see these technologies in use, there are other technologies that will
This Halloween let's talk cybersecurity
Eerie masks, pumpkins, and candies remind us of Halloween, celebrated in the month of October, which is also the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM). A whole month dedicated to spreading awareness about the virtual zombies who cause sleepless nights for IT teams and businesses at large. We live in a world where the line between public and private life is narrowing day by day. Smart devices that were once part of Orwell's futuristic novels have become a reality. From the Wanna Cry and
Time drift monitoring: Troubles of unsynchronized servers
A distributed IT infrastructure has many servers operating across multiple regions. Applying a single consistent time across servers will ensure isolated servers communicate in the proper time zone when exposed to the internet. When Microsoft encountered this problem back in 2017, the servers were offset by almost an hour, affecting a number of windows machines. With Reddit, it was a different case. A "leap second" glitch caught all the Java processes running in loops, which in turn ate up the CPU
A safer path to Azure deployments: Site24x7 and Azure Deployment Manager
While deploying updates in large-scale production environments, it can be easy to overlook minor issues that may later turn out to be the cause of major infrastructure problems. To ensure these large deployments are safely rolled out to production, they can be staged in one subset of your environment and then another; for example, once an update is deployed to a subset, it is monitored to make sure everything is fine and then moved to the next subset. Having staged rollouts can ensure continued availability
The story behind CloudSpend and why we built it
Back in 2008 when we began our journey, cloud computing was still relatively new. Though the term had a lot of buzz around it, organizations only considered the cloud as a place to experiment, not as a viable alternative to run production workloads. Now, the cloud has become the go-to strategy for enterprises and startups alike to deliver their digital business. There are several factors behind this shift including increased agility, faster innovation, pay-as-you-go pricing, and self-provisioned
2018 - Year in review! On a path to continued innovation
It was indeed an eventful year for us. With launching a slew of new capabilities, attending more than 23 global events, and conducting 12 seminars in multiple cities, the year 2018 was a blast. This year has also made us one of the firsts in the monitoring industry to introduce AI-driven Azure monitoring, along with many other significant enhancements. We thank all our customers for a great year. Before we get into newer beginnings, let's rewind a little to check out how eventful the year really
Three smart strategies for using Microsoft Teams to make DevOps leaner
A good DevOps strategy stresses the importance of communication and collaboration between development and operations teams. But these two teams often have conflicting priorities, which can hamper the DevOps experience. Modern chat-based team collaboration tools, such as Microsoft Teams, address this very problem in a simple yet intelligent way. Here are three ways you can use Microsoft Teams to improve your DevOps experience. 1. Chat on shared channels to ensure swift incident remediation Many developers
We're exhibiting at AWS re:Invent 2018. Come, meet us!
As you prepare yourself to participate in the largest gathering of global cloud community at AWS re:Invent 2018 at Las Vegas, we're excited to announce that we're exhibiting at booth# 1505 at the expo. Plan your calendar and join us as we're in the midst of all the action consisting of over a thousand sessions, chalk talks, workshops, builders sessions, hackathons and much more. With Site24x7 exhibiting at the event, you'll have an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with our solution experts
Mapping Layer 2 with Site24x7
At Site24x7, we know how cumbersome it can be to manually track devices as your network grows. What you need is a network monitoring tool that has an automatic discovery and mapping feature that tracks new devices in your network. With network admins
Top Log Monitoring Tools
Log files are vital to your organization. From helping organizations troubleshoot IT issues, to investigating security incidents, to locating an application error or isolating an underperforming component, the information that you need to make your life
Visualize blind spots within corporate, cloud, and ISP networks using the Network Route Map
If your data center experienced an outage due to an ISP problem, the first thing you probably do is go to a terminal and execute your nifty command line tools. These tools give you a lot of information, textually. However, troubleshooting network outages aren't always easy, as slow connections or outages may be caused by issues outside your corporate network and parsing all this data is hard. Now, with Site24x7's launch of the Network Route Map, you can visually gauge the network path, latency, and
Let's meet at AWS Summit Sydney
AWS Summit Sydney is coming up fast, and we're excited to be exhibiting at the event. As you plan to take part in the Summit and learn how cloud technology can help your business lower costs, improve efficiency and innovate at scale, don't forget to stop by our booth #I21. We'll have our team of experts engaging you with in-depth and interactive product presentations, demos and a whole lot of interesting conversations. We'd also love to discuss with you about product tips and tricks, feature updates,
Start monitoring the AWS services powering your AWS GovCloud (US) and China Region deployments with Site24x7.
You've been asking for it, and today we're excited to announce Site24x7 is extending its monitoring coverage to resources in AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China Region. With this new support, we're making it easier for you to pull data from Infrastructure and PaaS services deployed across all your regions into a single monitoring platform, allowing you to gain a truly global view of your AWS cloud environment. What are AWS GovCloud (US) and AWS China Region? AWS GovCloud (US) is an isolated AWS region
Chrome and Firefox are distrusting certain SSL Certificates - Find out if your site is affected!
As per the agreement between Google and Symantec to distrust the latter's root certificates, Symantec's SSL certificates issued before June 1st, 2016 will no longer be trusted starting from Google Chrome 66. Additionally, Google Chrome 70 will distrust all Symantec certificates. Mozilla Firefox and other browsers will distrust these certificates soon. This also means that SSL Certificates provided by sub-CAs like GeoTrust, RapidSSL, Thawte and more could also be affected. Use our Free SSL Certificate
Meet us at AWS Summit Singapore
AWS Summit Singapore is just around the corner (04th April 2018), and we're excited to be one of the sponsors. Whether you are new to the cloud or an experienced user, you will learn something at the AWS Summit. There are a ton of activities planned during the Summit with a keynote covering new announcements, great customer stories and many breakout sessions covering hot topics like new services, architecture best practices, IT innovation such as AI/ML and more! With Site24x7 a sponsor at the event,
Gain deeper insight into your AWS environment with our new multi-monitor metric views
One of the biggest challenges in a self-provisioned, public cloud environment like Amazon Web Services (AWS) is finding the right balance between resources, performance, and cost. With no initial visibility into usage stats, AWS customers tend to overprovision compute, storage, and database resources to cushion sudden spikes in demand. If users could see resource usage, they'd be able to determine if the numbers provisioned are really in line with the application workload. Luckily, Site24x7's custom
Tags: A smarter way to organize and manage monitors
Being organized is a critical aspect of IT infrastructure monitoring and management. Our Monitor Groups and Subgroups feature gave you the flexibility to group resources by a business application. With our recent launch of tags in Site24x7, you'll now be able to organize your resources by technology and other segments. So let's dive in and learn a bit more about tags, its features, and some basic tagging strategies. Tags, in detail Tags are unique labels that allow you to assign custom metadata to
AWS Lambda monitoring - How to optimize function execution time and performance
Function as a service (FaaS) products like AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, and Google Cloud Functions have instigated a paradigm shift in the way Ops teams provision and manage their organization's infrastructure. With everyday administrative tasks like provisioning, patching, maintaining compliance, and configuring operating systems all being abstracted away, your Ops team only has one task to work on - writing world-class code. But going serverless has its share of challenges, especially when it comes
Automation for the AWS platform - gain monitoring insight and automatically execute actions
As you probably know, Site24x7's AWS monitoring capabilities provide complete visibility into resource utilization and performance for key compute resources, storage, and database services powering your application in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. From here on out, you'll have the power to not only identify issues that might affect application performance, but also automatically invoke operational tasks across multiple AWS resources to resolve them quickly. Before we look at the various predefined
Observe best practices in AWS with our Guidance Report.
Introducing Site24x7's Guidance Report for AWS, your very own personal cloud consultant to help you get the most out of your AWS investment. So, what does this new Guidance Report offer? Well, it helps you follow certain industry best practices related to AWS. How? By checking your AWS account and resources against a list of curated best practice recommendations. The Guidance Report examines your EC2, EBS, and ELB resources, identifies resources that don't comply with certain standards, generates
[Infographic] Welcoming 2018 - A look back at 2017
We thank all our customers for a great year. As we look forward to welcoming 2018, we leave you with some of our major product releases and enhancements that went live during 2017 in the infographic below. Why the bucket building you ask? Well, we've been crafted by Zoho, and it's in this building where all the world-class products are created, and where all the magic happens. Watch the video - Beyond the Bucket. Thanks for all the success, and happy holidays.
Exception handling and monitoring in ASP.NET
Introduction Exception handling is a crucial mechanism of application development. When exceptions occur frequently, things like increased CPU time consumption, memory leakage, and application slowness have a higher chance of happening. In case of uncaught
This holiday season, share some Site24x7 love!
At Site24x7, we're always looking for ways to make our customers happy, be it simplifying monitoring requirements or gearing up for new year celebrations; we always love to see our customers smile. As you're preparing to welcome 2018 with a ton of festivities, we're excited to give you another reason to look forward to the new year and become part of your celebrations - Announcing the year-end iPhone X giveaway holiday contest. Share the joy of holidays, share some social love. To stand a chance
AWS re:Invent 2017: A quick recap!
What an incredible event we've had this year, from the 3-day non-stop action at our booth during the Expo hours, the wonderful keynote by Andy Jassy, the numerous breakout sessions on various topics to all the fun and games at the entire event, we had it all, and it was simply AMAZING! We're sure you had made great connections and had learned things that you can use in your business immediately. We'd like to thank each and everyone who'd taken time out from their schedule to stop by at our booth
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