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
It's time to re:Invent.
AWS re:Invent, the largest gathering of the global cloud community returns to Las Vegas for the 6th annual AWS re:Invent November 27 - December 1, 2017. We're one of the sponsors at the event and would love to meet you at our booth #2323. Plan your calendar and be part of the event that offers insights into technical best practices during +1000 breakout sessions on topics such as cloud architecture, continuous deployment, monitoring and management, performance, security, migration and more, and make
Steps to Protect Yourself against DNS Hijacking or DNS Hacking
This week, you might have come across the news about how turkey-based hackers hijacked DNS servers of several popular websites such as The Register, The Telegraph and National Geographic Channel. They re-directed the traffic to their webpage with the slogan “4 Sept. We TurkGuvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day - Have fun ;) h4ck y0u”. These popular website DNS servers were handled by NetNames. It’s sufficient to say they had hectic days ahead fixing the problem and allying fears about further
Let's rendezvous at Oracle Open World 2017.
As you gear up to attend Oracle Open World 2017, where you'd be exposed to more than 1,980 sessions, 2,900 speakers, and numerous demos, with discussions on the transformative potential of cloud services, we'd like to invite you to our booth during the event. We're exhibiting at the ManageEngine booth # 4612. Visit us at our booth to meet and interact with our product experts who'd be taking your questions and giving you an opportunity to experience the product on-hand. We'll also have live demos
Thanks for visiting us at Microsoft Ignite 2017.
Update: Exclusive giveaway for our booth visitors! [Terms and conditions mentioned below] In addition to 700+ sessions, insights into product roadmaps from industry leaders, and live demos on products that you use every day, here's another reason you'd want to attend Microsoft Ignite 2017 - Site24x7 is one of the proud sponsors of the event, and we're exhibiting at booth # 1663. This is an excellent opportunity to meet and interact with our product experts who'd be at the booth taking your questions
Introducing Site24x7's AWS Inventory Dashboard: Keep track of your AWS resources with ease!
We recently added a slew of new features and enhancements for our Amazon Web Services (AWS) monitoring users. Our development team put in a lot of hard work to make Site24x7 run even better. Now, you can enjoy improved monitoring coverage for EC2 instances, two new dashboards, and support for AWS service-level actions. To help you take advantage of these new features and enhancements, we wanted to publish a blog series that details each feature, explains why we added it and establishes best practices
Thanks for a successful VMworld 2017.
It's been little over three days since VMworld concluded, and we're yet to get over the excitement. What an incredible event we've had this year. We're sure you had made great connections and had learned things that you can use in your business immediately. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone who had stopped by at our kiosk. A special shout-out goes to all our wonderful customers who had visited and interacted with us; surely your presence makes our participation all the
Meet us at VMworld 2017
Site24x7 is exhibiting at Kiosk no. 700 C at VMworld 2017. Join us as we take part in VMware's premier thought leadership and education destination for cloud infrastructure and digital workspace technology professionals. At VMworld, you'll join industry's top thought leaders, subject matter experts, and IT professionals and learn the latest in cloud infrastructure and business mobility technology. With Site24x7 being a sponsor at the event, you'll have a great opportunity to meet and interact with
Introducing Site24x7's AWS infrastructure dashboard: Visualize the health and performance of your AWS infrastructure components instantly.
When you're running a complex production application within AWS, odds are there's going to be a lot of moving parts involved. Your application depends on the health and performance of many different components, including load balancers, compute instances, databases, and other application dependency services like S3 buckets and SNS. Although it helps to collect metric data, configure thresholds for key performance indicators, and get notified via multiple channels, wouldn't it be better if you had
Monitor the operational status of your EC2 instances with Site24x7 alerts.
Two months back, we introduced our unified Amazon EC2 monitoring capabilities which empower modern IT and cloud-first teams by providing improved visibility into the workloads of EC2 instances. How you ask? Well, by integrating the instance metadata from
Happy SysAdmin Day from Site24x7!
All sysadmins, gather up! July 28th is your day, otherwise known as System Administrator Appreciation Day. It's your day to sit back and relax, the day of the year that compensates for all the working weekends, missed parties, rescheduled vacations, and all the toil of making sure IT is up and running for all of us mere mortals. A huge shout out to all sysadmins from all of us here at Site24x7. We appreciate the fact that our IT is in good (read: great) hands. We at Site24x7 know how important this
Take the grunt out of JSON and JS - Minifiers, Beautifiers and Formatter tools
Being a web developer is no easy job. From debugging lines of errors to figuring out potential solutions for complex problems, one has to stay cool to get things done. In order to make things easier for you, we've come up with a list of tools that addresses your pain point and saves your time. Read along to learn why JSON minifier , JS minifier , JS beautifier , JSON beautifier and JSON formatters should be inevitable parts of your web development kit. Minifier - Less is more ! Minification is the
Auto associate device templates in network discovery
Devices vary, so do their monitoring parameters. For instance, a Cisco 1600 series router will require its availability and bandwidth utilization to be monitored, while a distribution switch might have its own monitoring requirements. Hence, the process
Custom Reports: Discover troublesome resources with great precision.
Reporting has always been an integral part of Site24x7 and we have taken it upon ourselves to deliver comprehensive and sophisticated reports on your monitored data. Our Summary, Availability, Performance, Health trend, and Top N reports have always helped DevOps and Network teams dissect and isolate issues in their individual monitors or monitor groups. But, issues in your IT infrastructure doesn't always exist in silos. It's usually construed as being a by-product of issues in another IT resource.
Introducing tag-based service discovery - Now control what AWS resources get discovered and monitored.
Your AWS service footprint will get larger and larger as you start going through the motions of configuration and testing. Over time, you'll gradually start to see disparate orphaned resources crop up in your AWS account. Tags are a great way to keep track of configured resources and are generally composed of a key and value pair. When used correctly, these simple pairs of strings and special characters can be quite powerful. From aiding in management to helping in searching and sorting, tags perform
Connect your AWS account with Site24x7 using cross-account IAM Role support.
Before we get into the nitty-gritty details of Identity and Access Management (IAM) roles, role ARNs, trust policies, and similar topics, we want to provide some context on how Site24x7 collects performance counters for various AWS infrastructure components using our CloudWatch integration. The backstory: Key-based access Site24x7 accesses the CloudWatch API every five minutes, automatically discovering various supported AWS services and collecting performance metrics and metadata from them. The
Site24x7 - An Ecommerce branding perspective
E-Commerce is one Industry which has grown exponentially over the year and is expected to continue doing so over the years. Find out how Site24x7 can help you in establishing a thriving online business establishment. E-Commerce - Industry Overview: According to a recent study by emarketer.com, Online retail is expected to account for nearly 8.8 percent of overall retail sales this year. In monetary terms, the value of online retail is expected to exceed 2.4 trillion USD. By 2018, nearly 50 percent
Introducing enhanced Amazon EC2 monitoring - Combine your CloudWatch and system metrics now!
In a multi-tenant cloud environment like AWS, resources of the underlying hardware are virtualized and shared. CloudWatch, Amazon's native monitoring solution does a great job by providing basic infrastructure level metrics. However there lies a small
Introducing better viewability for network interfaces
Has jumping over dashboards or tabs and searching for a key piece of data ever bothered you? Don't worry, you are no anomaly. The new interface view of Site24x7's network monitoring enables network administrators to keep a close tab on the performance of all their interfaces. Thus, the protracted process of searching interfaces under devices is eliminated. Site24x7 now offers its users the ease to view all their interfaces under one view as an independent tab. This simplification gives a bird's-eye
Introducing milestone marker - A hassle free way to track your product updates
Peter is sweating profusely in his office. Their e-commerce application is suddenly slow, and he is unable to identify the root cause of it. He remembers discussing a few changes with his UI team for better aesthetics - well, could it be the reason for the slowness? Also, a few weeks back, John's team had made some code changes in the back end for making transactions easy for the end user. Would it have contributed to this slowness? He also remembered that there were a few build updates by the server
Dependency configuration now gives you better hold over your alert credits
It would be of little use if you email your boss about your planned leave when your boss has limited access to his inbox. Its just like having butter and jam with no bread to supplement. Consider 100 network devices are mapped to a single switch or router. It would be taxing to get false alerts for all the 100 if the main switch/router goes down. This is where Site24x7 goes up an extra mile and gives you the flexibility to configure dependent monitors both at the monitor level and the monitor group
Expand your monitoring with Site24x7 Plugins
Site24x7, the all-in-one cloud based monitoring solution now provides support for more than 50 different integrations. Use our plugins and monitor a wide variety of applications and platforms such as MySQL, PostGres, Apache, NGINX, Tomcat, WebLogic, Memcached
Introducing DynamoDB and Application Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) monitoring
When you are running a complex business application on a dynamically changing cloud environment like AWS, things can get a little tricky. With multiple interconnected components powering your application, failure in any one can cascade and result in poor application performance ? leading to user frustration. Moreover, with the sheer number of services running, poor app performance can be attributed to any number of factors. From traffic spikes, instance resource constraints, to uneven ELB distribution
[New Feature] 5 Reasons to compare your APM Metrics
" If statistics are boring, you have got the wrong numbers." - Edward Tufte We all secretly dread that one day in our office - where we mull over mundane data, curse the crunching numbers, figure out the graphical charts and present our reports. Though we console ourselves by saying " Let the numbers do the talking," in reality, we don't infer much from our reports. Reports play a vital role in enhancing your application's performance over time. But how do we get valuable insights from those tricky
Three key metrics for monitoring AWS SNS performance and usage.
Well if you have already read our blog on important ELB metrics to monitor, you will know that, along with ELB another AWS service Simple Notification Service (SNS) was also added to our monitoring capabilities. This post will talk about the importance of your SNS environment and metrics you should consider monitoring. Communication is necessary to maintain operational efficiency in your AWS cloud infrastructure. Your application's ability to interact with and transmit data to other aspects of AWS
Key AWS Elastic Load Balancer metrics you need to monitor
A month back we announced public Beta monitoring for two new AWS Services - Classic type Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) and Simple Notifications Service (SNS), this included dashboards. alerting and performance reports for some of the most important metrics. This post is here to help you understand why a continuous monitoring of an Elastic load balancer is required. Monitoring your dynamic AWS cloud infrastructure and is quite complex. With AWS expanding its portfolio of services, it has become imperative
[Infographic] 2016 - Propelling to new heights.
2016 had it all. From a series of new feature releases supporting monitoring of FreeBSD, OS X servers and Microsoft apps like BizTalk, SharePoint, Active Directory, and Failover Cluster to releasing APM Insight PHP app monitoring capabilities and numerous enhancements to the Java and .NET agents, it was the year of launches. 2016 also saw the introduction of Site24x7 Plugins with 50+ integrations to monitor the entire app stack, and third-party integrations with ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus On-Demand,
Never Give Up: Introducing Custom Instrumentation for APM Insight .NET agent
There is no excellence without persistence and it holds true for every developer. In continuation to my previous musings as a developer, I am delighted to share another such incident. When I had joined the company, the Java agent was already in the final stages of development. My interview was kick-started by the then team lead who wasn't an expert in the space of .NET, the exact technology for which I was being recruited for. After having to face some clichéd interview questions initially, my interview
Amazing at AWS re:Invent 2016!
It's been more than a week since AWS re:Invent had concluded, and we're yet to get over the excitement of all the amazing responses we?d got during the show. What an incredible event we've had this year. We're sure you had made great connections and have learned things that you can use in your business immediately. We'd like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone who had stopped by at our booth. A special shout-out goes to all our wonderful customers who had visited and interacted with
[New feature] New RUM Snapshots aid Smart Performance Troubleshooting across Browser and Geography
An effective Real User Monitoring (RUM) solution needs to accurately measure the performance of a web application as and when it is accessed by a user. As such, RUM~should help DevOps to: Understand what is actual end-user experience Translate this data into actionable insights To enhance these capabilities, Site24x7 RUM is introducing a new feature called RUM Snapshots. RUM snapshot gives users actionable information on their web applications whenever they experience performance degradation through
Why application monitoring is necessary for websites
With more and more websites moving towards the open source platforms, custom implementation has become the norm for high profile, high traffic websites. These websites are applications that have been created to perform a specific function directly for the user. They could be delivering a specific user experience or collecting relevant data. The more complicated the functionality the more important monitoring website performance becomes. Using Site24x7 APM Insight, website admins can get deep visibility
Inviting Guest Posts - Blog and get an Amazon Echo!
Update:~To participate in this giveaway,~register here. We're excited to present to you the opportunity to make a guest post on our blogs. This is your chance to showcase how you use Site24x7 for your monitoring requirements. Share some usage scenarios, graphs/charts or screenshots that you find useful in the product or excel sheets with formulas that you think would work if data is exported from the Site24x7 console. The opportunities are endless. Your articles could cover any topic including monitoring
[New Feature] Record and playback multistep user interactions via a real browser for applications hosted on your private network
We are pleased to announce that the real browser synthetic monitor (RBM) from Site24x7 can now run or test from an On-premise poller (Linux). With this new feature, RBM capabilities will include recording and simulating critical user interactions on applications hosted within your enterprise?s intranet. Real Browser synthetic monitor. Real browser synthetic monitoring helps you actively monitor the availability and performance of web applications. You can simulate step-by-step critical user interaction
[New feature] Investigate graph spikes using APM Insight
At Site24x7, we have always developed~ tools which allow DevOps in getting to the root cause of an issue in the most efficient way. To increase this efficiency further, we have introduced a new feature in our application monitoring tool APM Insight called graph spike. Introducing graph spike Graph spike is a feature that enhances application monitoring capabilities to the next level. The feature~allows users to select a time period during which they had experienced application performance lag and
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