Achieve product mastery and unlock the full potential of Site24x7 with Site24x7 Academy
Organizations grow, and so do we. At Site24x7, we continually evolve by incorporating customer feedback and staying ahead of industry trends. As our valued customers who use the product day in and day out, you likely want a thorough understanding of all the features and use cases it has to offer. While we already provide various resources—like h...
GICG: a deep-dive into how the Java garbage collector works and its benefits
Garbage collectors in Java, along with other programming languages such as C# and Python, are automated processes that run in the background to free up memory. Garbage collectors routinely identify and reclaim unused memory to stop memory leaks (unused objects still being referenced) and make applications more efficient and faster for end users....
Enhance your website and internet service performance with a detailed RCA report
Without visibility into webpage performance metrics, organizations risk encountering several critical challenges. These challenges include slow load times deterring potential customers, difficulty in troubleshooting performance bottlenecks, inefficient resource allocation, missed opportunities for optimization, and a damaged brand reputation due...
What is a file system?
A file system determines how the operating system stores, organizes, manages, and retrieves data from a storage device. With a file system in place, files are systematically stored and accessed. File systems should not be confused with storage devices like hard disks, SSDs, or USB drives. Let's learn what file systems are, their types, and why t...
Analyze user behavior with RUM: Filterable performance insights to transform your business
Understanding how real users engage with a web application or website is crucial for the success of any business. Analyzing this data reveals vital insights into user behavior, performance metrics, and the overall experience. However, this vast amount of information can be both a blessing and a curse. While it holds the potential for invaluable ...
Streamline internal communication with status pages
Outages are unexpected events that can suddenly stop an organization's operations. Whether it's a network issue, a key application going down, or a system crash, these problems can cause confusion and disrupt work. Teams scramble to identify the problem, while employees are left in the dark, uncertain about the impact or duration of the issue. A...
Leveraging monitoring to build scalable data pipeline with Amazon Kinesis
Amazon Kinesis is a fully managed platform designed to stream large volumes of data in real-time. The platform includes four services: Kinesis Data Streams, Kinesis Data Firehose, Kinesis Data Analytics, and Kinesis Video Streams. These services enable businesses to collect, process, and analyze data from various sources, such as IoT dev...
What is OCI monitoring and why is it essential?
This blog explores the fundamentals of OCI monitoring and discusses how tools like Site24x7 can help in maintaining a healthy and optimized Oracle cloud environment.
OCI monitoring refers to the continuous observation and analysis of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s resources, applications, and services to ensure they are functioning...
Observability vs. monitoring vs. telemetry: Uncovering the secrets to proactive IT management
In the world of modern IT operations, keeping your systems running smoothly requires measures beyond just basic monitoring. As infrastructures become more complex and dynamic, understanding how telemetry, monitoring, and observability work together is essential. These three concepts may seem similar, but each plays a distinct role in maintaining...
Optimizing Kubernetes workloads with AI-powered monitoring
Kubernetes has drastically simplified application deployment. However, managing workloads in Kubernetes is a challenge because of their innate complexity and dynamism.
Frequent bottlenecks and unpredictable application behavior can make managing Kubernetes workloads much harder. This has become simpler and lighter after the expansion of AI...
Debugging Kubernetes pod pending failures
Every pod has its purpose. During an application deployment, all the workloads in the cluster work cohesively and ensure that the deployment launches—without any hiccups.
When a pod is created, it starts its lifetime in a Pending state. A pod is in the Pending state when it is still in the process of being scheduled for deployment. When it...
The role of AI in Kubernetes monitoring
In a dynamic environment like Kubernetes, where manual tracking is impossible, AI-powered monitoring tools, such as Site24x7, surf through enormous amounts of data, detecting irregularities, predicting vulnerabilities, and alerting the user about a possible outage that is about to happen if the resource is not handled.
Proactive identification o...
Identifying performance bottlenecks in complex applications
Performance bottlenecks can sneak in and slow everything to a crawl regardless of how advanced your application is. These hidden culprits can turn a seamless user experience into a frustrating one. In this blog, we’ll uncover the most common bottlenecks that drag down complex applications and share proven strategies to identify and resolve them....
How can you simplify web performance monitoring with auto RUM injection
Real user monitoring (RUM) is a powerful tool for optimizing the end-user experiences of web applications. With insights into performance, load times, user behavior, and more, RUM enables businesses to identify and address issues that negatively impact user satisfaction.
Consider a scenario where a growing e-commerce company experiences peri...
Transform your monitoring experience—Site24x7's Custom Dashboard
The dashboard in Site24x7 provides a solid foundation, but its true potential is unlocked through customization. Custom Dashboards enable you to personalize your monitoring experience, focusing on the metrics that matter most to you. By incorporating a variety of widgets, you can create a tailored and comprehensive view of your system's performa...
Introducing Site24x7's OCI Monitoring: Optimizing Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Today, we’re excited to announce Site24x7’s latest integration with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, a comprehensive solution to enhance control and visibility over your OCI environment. With Site24x7's advanced monitoring capabilities, you can track your cloud resources in real time, ensuring optimal performance, security, and c...
11 helpful KPIs to improve your network performance
Digitalization has surpassed network modernization, resulting in networks struggling to keep up with daily operations. While many networks can accommodate GenAI and other new technologies, network administrators are responsible for maintaining uninterrupted operations and preventing any errors. For this, they must diligently monitor network perf...
How to monitor ActiveMQ performance metrics to prevent common issues
Monitoring Apache ActiveMQ is essential for maintaining the stability and performance of your messaging infrastructure. As a message broker, ActiveMQ plays a critical role in facilitating communication between different components of IT systems, handling high volumes of messages, and ensuring reliable message delivery. Without proper oversight, ...
Elevate your IT operations with Site24x7 on iOS 18
Apple has once again redefined the possibilities of mobile technology with the release of iOS 18. With our commitment to stay at the forefront of innovation, we've seamlessly integrated iOS 18's powerful features into Site24x7's mobile app to deliver an unparalleled experience for DevOps and IT teams.
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Auto scaling beyond the basics: Fine-tuning AWS Auto Scaling groups
Before diving into advanced techniques, it's essential to have a firm grasp of what Auto Scaling groups are and how they function at a basic level. Auto Scaling groups adjust the number of Amazon EC2 instances required in your application to meet the peak performance demand. They can scale in (reduce instances) or scale out &#x...
The unknown threats: Understanding network outages and preventing them
According to a recent study by the Uptime Institute, the most frequent cause of network outages stems from issues in configuration or change management processes (https://datacenter.uptimeinstitute.com/rs/711-RIA-145/images/AnnualOutageAnalysis2023.03092023.pdf). This is closely followed by failures attributed to third-party network providers.&n...
Six cloud migration best practices for higher uptime
It is important to analyze the complexity, dependencies, and resource requirements of your applications. This will help you determine the most suitable migration strategy. Define your migration goals, such as cost reduction, improved performance, or increased scalability. This will help you align your efforts and measure success. You can also...
The role of QoS in optimizing network usage
As businesses heavily depend on the internet and network services for daily operations, the performance and reliability of these networks are key to their success. This highlights the crucial role of quality of service (QoS) in improving network efficiency. It ensures a smooth user experience and supports business advancement. In this blog, we'l...
How Australian local governments can use cloud-native observability
Australian city councils are the command centers of every city, ensuring essential services are delivered with reliability and speed while being available for citizens' queries and requests. Though the IT infrastructure of Australian city councils has predominantly been on-premises, the last decade has seen a substantial digital shift with incre...
Australian local governance: How to choose the right IT monitoring tool
Australian city councils and their IT stack
City councils run like the central nervous system that links and serves a large community of people, companies, and establishments to make a city a complex, bustling melting pot.
Touching every life across the population—right down to the last mile—city councils provide digital access to essential ser...
Why holistic monitoring is the key to future-proof your application
Pinpoint bottlenecks and reduce MTTR by quickly identifying the exact source of the issue down to the code level.
Reduce costs by diagnosing and resolving issues rapidly and minimizing business impact.
What is network uptime? Know how to measure and increase it.
Organizations that rely on traditional networks struggle to keep pace with rapidly evolving technologies and accelerate innovation. As AI, cloud, and decentralization create new challenges, the key to moving forward at a faster pace is to make sure the network is always available and working without any interruptions. This measure, known as netw...
Unlock Sybase ASE performance: Transform monitoring metrics into actionable insights
Sybase Adaptive Server Enterprise (ASE) is a robust solution for handling critical business operations. To keep it running at peak performance, it's essential to monitor it continuously and collect a range of performance metrics. These metrics provide detailed insights into various aspects of the server’s health, including connection times, memo...
Understanding Kubernetes namespaces and how to monitor them with Site24x7
Kubernetes namespaces are a fundamental way of organizing your Kubernetes cluster resources to isolate groups of resources for specific needs. With better resource management, easy organization, robust security, and high scalability, Kubernetes namespaces help immensely in development, team handling, and application life cycle management.
...Optimizing webpage performance with Site24x7's waterfall chart
A slow website equals lost opportunities. Frustrated users abandon slow-loading sites, impacting conversions and search rankings. Prioritize website speed for business success and exceptional user experiences.
Site24x7's waterfall chart is a critical tool for understanding and optimizing webpage performance. It provides a visual re...
Australian local governance: Four ways observabIity helps achieve IT resilience
Australian city councils rely on a variety of computer applications, information websites, and service portals to help run the civic infrastructure and essential citizen services.
Typically, Australian city councils operate a hybrid IT infrastructure that is a mix of both on-premise legacy applications that have passed the test of time and sever...
Four key benefits of configuration templates in network automation
Configuration templates consist of small pieces of code that allow administrators to implement changes across numerous devices as many times as necessary. These templates, often referred to as configlets, expedite system setup and make it more resistant to errors.
How to automate network configuration using configuration templates
First, l...
Strategies that foolproof your AWS disaster recovery strategies
Before delving into specific AWS DR strategies, it's crucial to define your organization's unique recovery objectives:
Recovery Time Objective (RTO): This specifies the maximum tolerable downtime for a system or application.
MSP device templates at the admin level for tracking your customer's endpoints
Managed service providers (MSPs) are currently facing a critical challenge: efficiently managing and monitoring a diverse array of endpoints for multiple clients. At the core of effective network management is the seamless tracking of customer endpoints. The availability of device templates at the administrative level within Site24x7 is an advan...
What are networks? Part 2: Network devices and why we need to monitor them
In an era dominated by GenAI technologies, the critical role of robust network infrastructure—the backbone of AI's expansive capabilities—often remains in the shadows. At the heart of this infrastructure lies an intricate array of network devices, including routers, switches, modems, firewalls, wireless access points, etc. These devices, each se...
Six ways Australian local government IT teams can benefit from AIOps in monitoring
Running IT operations in an Australian city council is a complex role that faces a unique set of challenges and opportunities. Typically, a city council in an advanced country like Australia runs its IT on a hybrid model, with a combination of continuing on-premise installations working in tandem with modern cloud platforms, such as Azure.
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How to reduce failures with failover clusters
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Eight IT challenges faced by Australian local governments and their solution
Local governments are the bedrock of communities, ensuring a city thrives as a great place to live. Delivering vital services, building and running infrastructure, and ensuring people have adequate access to essential and emergency services alike are some of the top priorities of local governments. In the continent nation of Australia, local gov...
How to fix network latency with network traffic monitoring tools: Use cases and examples
Seamless network performance is the cornerstone of business success. However, network latency—the delay in data transfer initiation—can greatly hinder user experiences, decrease productivity, and even incur financial losses. For businesses aspiring to thrive, it is crucial to address and resolve network latency issues. In this context, network t...
Navigating IT complexity: Observability vs. monitoring for Australian SMEs' digital transformation
While traditional IT monitoring holds back Australian small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in digital transformation, these organizations do realize that in the realm of IT operations, observability represents a significant advancement over traditional monitoring approaches. Unlike conventional methods that primarily focus on metrics like u...
The key benefits of Azure disk monitoring
Virtual machines (VMs) deliver flexible, scalable, and cost-effective computing solutions for businesses of all sizes. Microsoft Azure offers efficient and powerful VMs, but as infrastructures boom, the computing environment tries to accommodate the increased demands of the infrastructure. As VM demand increases, it can impact their performance ...
The rise of AIOps in infrastructure monitoring
Drowning in data from complex environments? Ditch the reactive approach. Artificial intelligence for IT operations (AIOps) empowers proactive management with comprehensive observability. According to Gartner, IT spending will continue to mount sky-high despite the global economic instability; the IT expenditure is predicted to surge by 8.6% in 2...
How traditional IT monitoring is holding back digital transformation for Australian SMEs
In today's digital landscape, monitoring IT systems and infrastructure is crucial for ensuring operational efficiency and maintaining business continuity. Australian small and medium enterprises (SMEs) understand the importance of monitoring but often struggle to fully leverage its capabilities. One common challenge is the siloed nature of I...
How to optimize performance across Amazon EC2 instances
Imagine paying for a top-tier gym membership when all you do is walk on the treadmill occasionally. Choosing the right instance type is as crucial as choosing a gym membership. You need to analyze your application's needs—CPU, memory, and storage utilization—and select an instance type that perfectly matches those requirement...
Navigating digital disruptions: Lessons from the Microsoft outage
The recent Microsoft-CrowdStrike outage serves as a stark reminder of the interconnectedness and fragility of our digital infrastructure. What began as a seemingly isolated issue with a software update rapidly escalated into a widespread disruption, affecting businesses across multiple sectors.
The incident highlights the potential cons...
The role of IT monitoring in digital transformation for Australian SMEs
The importance of visibility over the entire technology environment cannot be overstated. This ensures the health, performance, and security of the technology that organizations rely on to deliver digital services. Technology leaders in Australia’s SMEs understand and appreciate the strategic benefits of monitoring.
The strategic benefits of IT ...
Status page examples
The visual presentation and aesthetics of a company's online presence are crucial in shaping the company's reputation and customer trust. One such vital aspect is the status page, which is often overlooked yet highly influential. By examining the best status page examples, we can see how a well-designed status page not only conveys reliabil...
Top IT challenges Australian SMEs must tackle for better operational efficiency
As digital intensity rises in Australian SMEs, technology teams face significant challenges. The complexity of expanding technology architectures, the proliferation of applications, and reliance on diverse cloud environments exponentially increases the demand for IT support and operations. This intricate tech landscape introduces coordination ch...
A guide to choosing the best cloud infrastructure monitoring tool
The cloud is a complex network of interconnected resources—virtual machines (VMs), containers, serverless functions, and a web of data flowing between them. With so many elements, it becomes challenging to ensure continuous uptime for all cloud services while also maintaining optimal performance and security.
Cloud monitoring tools assist in thi...
Top 7 best practices for monitoring your OpenShift environment
To ensure your OpenShift environment is healthy and stable, consider these seven tips:
Ensure your OpenShift platform is available at all times. Your monitoring tool is invaluable during these periods. Utilize node redundancy, multiple pod replicas, and load balancing. Regularly back up your monitoring data and configurations, and ...