Syslog Checks: How to find Insights in the Data Flood

Here's why this happens: Traditional syslog infrastructure was designed for storage and retrieval, not detection and response .

Messages flow from applications to syslog daemons to files or remote collectors, where they sit waiting for someone to grep through them after something breaks .


Azure Runbooks Automation: Best Practices for IT Efficiency

The difference between organizations that scale their automation successfully and those that don't? Metrics-driven runbook management.

From handling everything from VM provisioning to compliance remediation, Azure Automation Runbooks have become the backbone of enterprise operational workflows. However, deploying runbooks is only ha...


Firewall check: How long until you know your Firewall has been down?

There are numerous cases where someone disables Windows Firewall temporarily to troubleshoot a connectivity issue. The problem gets resolved. The firewall stays disabled—for months.

Nobody notices until the security team investigates why sensitive data is suddenly appearing on dark web marketplaces.


How to Automate Alerts for Critical Directory Changes with Site24x7 Server Monitoring

This should never happen.

Here's something that keeps IT teams up at night: the file system is often the last place teams think to monitor, yet it is frequently the first place problems manifest.


The fragile web: 2025's lessons on uptime, reality, and engineering rigor

If you are into IT operations or leadership, you likely spent at least one weekend in 2025 huddled over a laptop while the rest of the world slept. For the last decade, our industry has pursued five nines (99.999% uptime) as the holy grail. We architected redundant systems, deployed across multiple availability zones, and optimized our code u...


How to prevent outdated server inventory risks with efficient server monitoring

At any point in time, your IT teams are constantly working on performance monitoring, security patching, scaling, and related activities. Most teams overlook one critical pillar: a reliable and up-to-date server inventory. Why did we emphasize the phrase "reliable and up-to-date"? Because there are still teams using a spreadsheet that was last u...

Top server monitoring tools for 2026: A comprehensive comparison guide

IT infrastructure is now hyper-distributed. We are in a scale-in-seconds era and that means, a typical IT landscape is spread across on-premises data centers, public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP), containerized environments, and edge locations.  With many components comes more points of failure. A single server outage can cascade into customer-f...

Site24x7 wrapped 2025: A year of growing together

The business world doesn’t expect its best gifts to be wrapped in ribbons. Gifts come in the form of quiet moments when everything you’ve invested in and count on comes through. For example, when you leave the office knowing your systems are in good hands. That's what 2025 was about for us at Site24x7. We evolved towards building the kind of obs...

Why DPDP compliance must include network configuration governance

India’s Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act places accountability on how organizations collect, process, and store personal data to help organizations stay steps ahead of threat actors. Forrester’s CIO roadmap highlights a clear shift: compliance is no longer limited to policies and consent workflows. CIOs must extend governance deepe...


Empowering IT teams: Site24x7's mobile app updates in 2025

Present IT structure requires flexibility, speed, and accessibility. This year marked a significant milestone for Site24x7 as we launched our enhanced mobile application, transforming how IT teams manage their infrastructure while on the go. Whether you're responding to critical alerts during your commute or reviewing performance metrics between...