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How to prevent outdated server inventory risks with efficient server monitoring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...

Powering modern IT with a smarter observability platform

Since its inception, the Site24x7 platform has been the central pillar of monitoring. In 2025, it evolved beyond monitoring to become a comprehensive decision-making layer for modern IT operations. With a strong focus on usability, intelligence, governance, and scalability, this year’s enhancements were designed to help teams see clearly, act...


Digital Risk Analyzer 2025: Digital security fortified

With enhanced scalability, deeper visibility, and actionable security intelligence, Digital Risk Analyzer continues to evolve to help teams identify, prioritize, manage, and mitigate digital risks more effectively. This solution now extends its digital risk management capabilities to MSP environments.

Large-scale asset coverage is simpl...


Faster resolution, better outcomes: Site24x7's digital experience monitoring innovation recap

Another year, another leap forward in digital experience monitoring. As we wrap up 2025, we're thrilled to reflect on the transformative capabilities we've brought to Site24x7—innovations designed around one core mission: helping you deliver a flawless user journey worldwide. This year, we focused on closing visibility gaps, eliminating blind sp...

Why OTT platforms crash and what it teaches us about traffic surges

Minutes after the newest episodes of a beloved series dropped, a well-known streaming OTT (over-the-top) platform crashed. The impact was instant: streams wouldn’t load, logins failed, and users across regions started refreshing their screens, wondering if the issue was on their end. Outages like this don’t often happen, especially for an eng...


Looking back at 2025: Innovations that shaped DevOps and observability

The year 2025 has been exciting for Site24x7, packed with innovations designed to make monitoring smarter, faster, and more intuitive. From enhanced APM insights and deeper database observability to a more powerful log management experience and AI-driven plugin enhancements, we’ve focused on giving teams the tools they need to troubleshoot fa...


Reflecting on a year of smarter network monitoring: 2025

This year, the world leaned heavily on words like reimagine, rebuild, renew, reshape, and reinvent, and the same spirit defined our journey. As promised last year, we reimagined key capabilities, reshaped workflows, and restructured critical parts of our network monitoring tool to meet modern demands. At the same time, we reinforced the core ...


Elevate your MSP operations: Looking back at key Site24x7 features added in 2025

Managing multiple customer accounts as an MSP can be overwhelming. With the constant demands of configuring monitors, generating reports, and maintaining security across numerous customers, efficiency becomes critical. Throughout this year, we've focused on making your life easier with powerful new features that automate repetitive tasks, enhanc...

StatusIQ in 2025: Reliability and credibility, strengthened

StatusIQ enables transparent status communication through public status pages--and now it's easier with the StatusIQ mobile application. This handy app delivers updates directly to your mobile device—reducing effort while keeping teams and stakeholders informed anytime, anywhere.

The StatusIQ mobile application is optimized for mode...


Cloud observability in focus: How Site24x7 strengthened cloud monitoring in 2025

Cloud monitoring became more important as enterprises scaled distributed systems, multi-region deployments, and hybrid environments. Teams needed better cloud performance insights, clearer resource usage visibility, and stronger automation to prevent outages and control costs. This year, Site24x7 delivered a rich set of cloud monitoring updates ...

ROI in Kubernetes Monitoring

Keeping track of this constant motion isn't just a visibility challenge—it's a financial one. Monitoring every moving part can quickly become as expensive as running the workloads themselves.

That's why it's worth asking a simple question: What's the real return on all this monitoring?


IT infrastructure monitoring: Leaner, stronger, more intelligent, and a huge progression

IT infrastructure as a technology has leapfrogged in 2025 and Site24x7 is no exception. CTOs, SREs, sysadmins, and other IT personnel wanted more from server monitoring and observability tools—and we stepped up. We listened to you, the industry leaders in your respective spaces, and re-envisioned our product platforms. The result? A single agen...

Unified network performance monitoring reports for compliance

You don't have to monitor everything in Site24x7, but when you do, your IT operations run like a charm.

A key pillar of unified visibility is network performance, where tracking metrics such as latency, jitter, throughput, and error rates help ensure a smooth data flow across every path.


Proactive server port monitoring for downtime detection

If your organization runs on tech, everyday issues can be expected. This includes application downtime, erratic connectivity, and failures in remote access, database reachability, site-to-site VPNs, and web-based services. But how do you know if an issue is caused by: An outage by the service provider,A misconfiguration in your server,An overpro...

Zoho (ManageEngine) recognized in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Observability 2025 report

Our approach to observability is built around a single, integrated platform that brings together performance, user experience, operational intelligence, and cost governance. To support this, the platform spans five solution areas:

This structure ensures customers don’t just collect metrics, they gain operational context and business rel...


Top 7 reasons behind poor user experiences and how to fix them

User experience (UX) has become a pivotal factor in influencing the success of a product. You've probably experienced it yourself by clicking away from a slow website or abandoning an app that just doesn't work right. For product owners, the difference between success and failure often comes down to how smoothly users can interact wit...


Stay audit-ready with real-time file change alerts in Site24x7 server monitoring

Maintaining the integrity of server files and directories is essential for security, operational resilience, and compliance. Whether it’s business-critical application configurations, sensitive data files, or audit logs, any unauthorized, unexpected, or accidental modification can jeopardize service continuity and expose an organization to regul...

How OpenTelemetry can enhance observability in distributed systems: Practical examples

Observability has become one of the fundamental elements of performance and reliability as modern applications move toward cloud-native architectures, microservices, and multi-cloud. Traditional monitoring techniques often fall short in such dynamic, distributed environments. That’s where OpenTelemetry (OTel) , an open-source observability fr...


Stop the guesswork: Troubleshoot with confidence with process monitoring

IT infrastructure is vast, complex, and interdependent. At any point in time, businesses rely on thousands of servers running thousands of processes. Detecting server downtime is fairly easy—but true observability is when you know precisely which processes are working as intended and which are silently contributing to performance degradation. A ...

4 common OpenTelemetry challenges and how Site24x7 helps overcome them

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is transforming observability by standardizing and unifying how telemetry data such as metrics, logs, and traces are collected from distributed systems. However, while it unlocks new opportunities for monitoring and troubleshooting, adopting and operating OpenTelemetry comes with real-world challenges. Here’s what you nee...


ManageEngine recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring

We are excited to share that ManageEngine has been recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM). We believe this recognition reflects our ability to execute on customer needs while staying in step with the evolving demands of the market.

When we launched ManageEngine more than two decades ago, ...


How to solve authentication failures when you have an Azure setup

It is not just your business. Enterprises worldwide face recurring technical issues related to authentication failures and access problems. These errors often pop up, especially in scenarios with service connection setups, pod/start failures, or integration issues. Most of the time, these errors indicated failed deployments, pods failing to pul...

Kubernetes monitoring & observability trends 2026 | Future of Kubernetes observability

As we head into 2026, Kubernetes monitoring is moving toward actionable insights, cost-aware observability, and security-first approaches. This blog dives deep into what engineers, architects, and platform teams should watch for in the year ahead — with real-world examples for context.

Currently, AI and machine learning are ruling the o...


CIDR blocks vs. IP ranges: Aligning network discovery with business value

At every turn, IT leaders are required to prove the value of every technology investment. Technology business management (TBM) practices encourage connecting tech spend directly to business outcomes, demanding accurate data about what’s in your network and how it supports the organization. This is why selecting a network discovery method betw...


Strengthen the server back end with server URL checks

In distributed architectures, the back-end service reliability of microservice endpoints and internal APIs relies on the health of local URLs. These local URLs are not exposed to the public internet and are essential for your IT infrastructure health and automation suites. Site24x7’s server URL check is engineered for operations teams that requi...

Simplify server issue diagnosis with service monitoring

It's well-known that an alert that just states “the server is down,” is not particularly helpful for your already overworked SysAdmins and SRE teams. Diagnosing why the server went down is their challenge.The problem is that memory spikes, CPU overload, failing services, or blocked ports can all look the same from a distance. Too often, these is...

Stop decision overload: How discovery filters optimize device onboarding for efficient network monitoring

Every network administrator encounters the same question during discovery scans: Should this device be monitored or ignored? Routers are critical, but what about test servers, lab switches, or that aging and unused printer still on the network? Manually deciding for each device creates decision overload and risks overlooking what really matters....

Autodiscovering new devices added to your network

IntroductionIf you have ever expanded your network (whether adding a new branch office, deploying new devices, or upgrading infrastructure), you know how quickly monitoring can easily spiral out of control. Untracked devices create monitoring blind spots, consume bandwidth and resources, and make troubleshooting a guessing game. You need a found...

Scheduling discovery jobs for dynamic enterprise networks

Networks have evolved far beyond simple data conduits.They're now the backbone of decentralized digital enterprises, serving as critical channels for information exchange. Modern networks connect dispersed locations and devices, driving performance, security, and cost efficiency. However, decentralization also scatters assets, creates blind spot...

Kubernetes monitoring 101: Best practices to kickstart your journey

Use this guide to help you build a solid observability foundation without getting overwhelmed and get started with the best practices for a practical Kubernetes management.

Starting your Kubernetes journey can feel like diving into the deep end; with hundreds of metrics, endless logs, and a growing list of tools, it's easy to lose f...


ManageEngine is Named a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer” for Network Management Tools

We’re excited to share that ManageEngine has been recognized as a Customers’ Choice in the 2025 Gartner Peer Insights™ “Voice of the Customer” for Network Management Tools. This recognition reflects the trust and satisfaction our customers place in our solutions and we feel like this validates our commitment to delivering reliable, user-friendly...

The ultimate Kubernetes monitoring checklist

Monitoring in Kubernetes isn’t guesswork. It is a continuous process of validating that each layer, from control plane to the pod, is behaving as expected.

This Kubernetes monitoring checklist gives you specific, operational items to review so you can catch performance issues, misconfigurations, and security gaps before they escalate.


Creating custom discovery profiles for hybrid networks

Regularly reviewing these reports ensures that no new or rogue device slips through unnoticed, and it simplifies onboarding new assets into monitoring workflows.


Why database monitoring is critical for application performance

When an application slows down, users rarely think about the database—but in many cases, that’s where the bottleneck lies. Databases sit at the core of nearly every application, storing, retrieving, and processing the information that powers business transactions, analytics, and user interactions. A minor inefficiency in query execution or a ...


Top Azure monitoring trends for cloud operations in 2025

As cloud infrastructures grow more dynamic, monitoring them has become more complex and critical. As we are approaching Q4 of 2025, Azure monitoring has seen and will undergo a major transformation, driven by AI, automation, multi-cloud adoption, edge computing, data platform, and analytics insights. Businesses are no longer just consuming cloud...

Database monitoring for beginners

That's why tracking your databases gives you the visibility into how your databases are performing under the hood.

This guide is for anyone new to the world of database monitoring—developers, operations engineers, or even curious team leads—looking to understand what it is, why it matters, and how to get started.


Monitoring websites from the United States

Let’s have a look at some of the numbers that show why it is important to monitor site performance from the US. The US hosts over 505 million websites , representing 41% of the world's total websites. Moreover, with 49.47% of all internet traffic in the region coming from desktops, with mobile devices taking up a share of 48.15%, and with...


Site24x7 partners with BigPanda agentic IT operations platform to further streamline IT operations

Site24x7 monitors across the IT stack and generates a consolidated view of incidents triggered by multiple observability tools on uptime, performance, and security. These incidents can now be fed into BigPanda to enable its users to handle monitoring signals better. Site24x7 incident alerts are sent via HTTP requests to BigPanda, where they a...


For developers from developers—Site24x7's engineering blog series

Site24x7 is a monitoring solution that uses many technologies, servers, and databases at the back end. Like any other IT organization, Site24x7 faces it's own set of challenges and tries to fix them swiftly to deliver the best user experience to end users. Our engineering team is never tired of experiments and never leaves any issue unsol...


Optimizing mobile website performance using digital experience monitoring

Mobile devices are today the primary window to the internet, especially in emerging markets. In 2023, global mobile internet users surpassed 5 billion, representing over 60% of all internet users (Source: GSMA Intelligence). Poor mobile performance has severe consequences:

Mobile browser performance can be judged based on key metrics kn...


Boosting your AWS monitoring ROI: Strategies that deliver

So, how do you actually do that? Let’s break it down.

At its core, ROI is about how much value you get back compared to what you spend. However, for AWS monitoring, it goes far beyond just cost savings. Maximizing ROI in AWS monitoring means:


ManageEngine Site24x7 monitoring actions are now available within ServiceDesk Plus On Demand

At ManageEngine, we're committed to empowering IT teams with tools that simplify operations and deliver effortless observability for all stakeholders. We're excited to announce the Site24x7 extension for ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus On Demand now available on the ManageEngine Marketplace.

This extension transforms ServiceDesk P...


The ROI of monitoring your Azure environment: Prevent surprises, control costs, boost uptime

In a recent Reddit discussion, a user shared their experience with huge Azure Function costs. According to the user, despite having a relatively low number of function executions, they noticed an unexpected increase in their Azure bill. Upon investigation, they discovered that the associated storage account, which was created alongside the fu...


How ManageEngine Site24x7 switched from AngularJS to Angular 18, incident free

Switching to Angular 18 needed to be done without any lag or crash that would cause a glitch in operations. As a platform serving businesses from startups to large enterprises, Site24x7’s mission has always been to deliver the latest and fastest frameworks and functionalities felt at the front end—the face of the product. To keep up, Site24x7...


IIS server: Uses, benefits, and challenges

Internet Information Services, commonly referred to as IIS, is Microsoft's web server software. It is built to host websites, applications, and services for Windows systems. If you are considering IIS for hosting your website or applications, let us take you through the basics of IIS, its benefits over the other options available, and the...