Creating custom dashboards for network monitoring with Site24x7
Instead of sifting through mountains of metrics across different network types, what if you had an AI-powered tool that could display all the necessary insights in an easy-to-understand format?
Visual analytics can help enterprises make informed, data-driven decisions. With Site24x7, organizations can break free from generic monitoring a...
Key metrics for Kubernetes performance monitoring: A practical guide
Kubernetes is known to be the best container orchestration tool, but it can also add complexity to resource management, particularly as your clusters expand. Without proper monitoring, problems can rapidly worsen, resulting in subpar application performance, service interruptions, and higher expenses.
In this blog, you will learn the key m...
Enhance microservices observability and performance with Site24x7's log management tool
Microservices are a way of designing applications as a set of small, independent services. Each service handles a specific task and interacts with others through APIs. This architecture makes it easier to develop, deploy, and scale services individually, offering greater flexibility compared to traditional monolithic systems. To support this arc...
The ultimate guide to real-time website performance monitoring for the enterprises
Studies have revealed that a major chunk of customers give priority to website performance as one of the key pointers that influence their brand loyalty and can determine their decision to purchase. This translates to the reality that the performance of an enterprise can be directly proportional to the satisfaction of their customers. In th...
What are Kubernetes events? How can you use Kubernetes events for effective monitoring?
Kubernetes events play a predominant role in helping ensure the peak performance of your Kubernetes clusters. These occurrences reflect important changes in states and offer immediate insights into the activities within your clusters. Whether a pod fails to initialize, a node becomes unreachable, or an application deployment encounters problems,...
Beyond the hype: Is a 10x leap in efficiency possible with AIOps in IT observability?
Now that AI has revolutionized IT forever, what are its implication on IT observability? Typically, IT operations, SREs, and DevOps professionals use IT observability to gain a holistic view of their IT infrastructure. In that pursuit, they used AIOps in several ways. Now, AI has helped IT observability with better anomaly detection, faster root...
Server restarts: The silent threat to IT infrastructure
Servers are restarted mainly due to two reasons:
The restart is manually scheduled or triggered to apply updates.A crash, system failure, security threat, or any resource failure.Server uptime plays the most important role in IT infrastructure's part in business continuity. Planned maintenance schedules and restarts are necessary but unexpected,...
Enterprise guide to streamlined log collection using Site24x7
Handling logs in a large-scale server infrastructure is no small task. It’s a critical component of maintaining smooth operations, especially for industries like healthcare, where over 1,000 servers might be managing everything from patient records to billing systems. When these logs are scattered and disconnected, this disarray slows troublesho...
Best practices for designing an effective status page
The effectiveness of a status page lies in its design. A poorly structured one can leave users uncertain and searching for clarity, potentially impacting trust and increasing the load on support teams.
In contrast, a well-crafted status page delivers more than updates. It provides clear, actionable insights; builds confidence; and reinforces acc...
Leverage log analytics dashboards for better monitoring
Visuals often communicate better than words, and this is also true for monitoring systems. Dashboards are an essential feature in log monitoring systems, providing great value to those who need to analyze and monitor logs. They help centralize log data in a simple, easy-to-read format, avoid clutter, and allow the team to focus on critical metri...
Enhancing your defenses: Key DRA updates from 2024
2024 saw a dramatic rise in sophisticated cyber threats, making robust security posture management more critical than ever. Throughout the year, Site24x7's Digital Risk Analyzer evolved to meet these challenges, empowering enterprises to proactively identify, analyze, and mitigate digital risks. This year-end roundup highlights the key enhanceme...
14 top network monitoring trends in 2025
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are transforming the way we think about network monitoring. Since they offer predictive analytics, anomaly detection, and faster troubleshooting, by using AI and ML, network monitoring tools can proactively identify issues before they impact business operations.
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Master programming languages with cheat sheets
Programming can be both exciting and challenging, especially when you’re navigating the ever-growing list of languages, frameworks, and tools. To simplify your learning and boost productivity, we’ve created cheat sheets for some of the most popular programming languages. Whether you’re coding in Java or any other programming language, these chea...
Build user trust and foster transparency with StatusIQ’s 2024 enhancements
2024 has been a transformative year for StatusIQ, marked by continuous innovation to meet the growing needs of our users. This year’s enhancements aim to simplify incident communication, improve team efficiency, and, most importantly, build trust with your users. From providing deeper insights into status history to enabling seamless platform mi...
Why is website monitoring crucial for e-commerce?
Picture this: A loyal customer in New York, eager to snag the latest release from your spring collection, logs onto your website at precisely 9:00am GMT – launch time. They’ve been counting down the hours, ready to purchase before their size sells out. But instead of a smooth shopping experience, they’re met with an error message, a painfu...
Why proactive website monitoring is your secret tool to boost customer satisfaction
In a market crowded with options, a smooth and reliable online experience sets businesses apart. For SMBs and mid-market companies, their website often serves as the initial–and sometimes defining–interaction with potential customers. It's more than just an online brochure; it's your digital presence, powering communication, sales, and brand per...
Black box and white box monitoring, and why modern IT observability needs both
Monitoring is essential for enhancing the reliability, performance, and user experience of all software systems. IT operations can employ two key monitoring strategies to assess system health: black box and white box monitoring. This blog discusses both approaches and highlights how ManageEngine Site24x7, an AI-based IT observability platform, c...
How StatusIQ helps executives make informed decisions
Good decisions help leaders keep operations smooth and grow their business. With the right data at the right time, executives can solve problems quickly and take advantage of new opportunities.
This blog will explore how StatusIQ helps executives make informed decisions by providing real-time data on system health, optimizing resource allocation...
From downtime to uptime: The importance of server health monitoring for enterprises
What if your servers suddenly crashed during your biggest sales event of the year?
For an enterprise IT manager, this isn't just a hypothetical—it's a disaster in the making. Server downtime doesn’t just cause frustration; it disrupts operations, erodes customer trust, damages your brand, and results in significant revenue loss. As businesses be...
Limiting the cost of downtime: Why monitoring should be a boardroom priority
What if collaboration in your enterprise slowly fizzled due to website or application downtime? Orders vanishing, customers fuming, and revenue plummeting. As digital platforms become increasingly central to business, every minute of lost service translates to significant financial damage and irreversible reputational harm. This isn't just an IT...
Your monitoring made smarter: Site24x7’s 2024 updates
2024 has been a year of progress and possibilities at Site24x7. Our mission? To simplify IT monitoring and help you focus on running your business uninterrupted. Whether it’s cutting through alert noise, diving into performance trends, or customizing dashboards to match your workflow, we’ve rolled out features that deliver exactly what you need ...
Actual cost of IT downtime: A Guide
In our recent blog, we spoke in detail about how system availability trends changed in 2024. From the observation over the years, even public clouds and established data centers aren't safe from downtime threats. Now, let's learn about the actual cost of an IT infrastructure downtime to understand the importance of comprehensive IT observability...
Common Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) monitoring challenges
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) provides a robust, versatile platform for modern cloud deployments, catering to businesses with diverse needs, like multi-region scalability, high customization, and hybrid cloud integration. However, the complexity of its architecture and the sheer volume of data generated can present unique challenges in effec...
Error tracking: Challenges and best practices
For small- to mid-sized businesses (SMBs) and mid-market enterprises, ensuring application reliability is critical to maintain customer trust and business continuity. Error tracking, a key aspect of observability maturity, is a powerful tool to proactively identify and resolve application issues. Let's explore the challenges of error tracking an...
Reflecting on 2024: Advancing monitoring solutions for DevOps
As we approach the close of 2024, it's the perfect time to reflect on the remarkable progress and innovation at Site24x7. Our commitment to empowering businesses with robust monitoring solutions for DevOps and IT operations has led to significant advancements in application performance monitoring (APM), logs, databases, and plugins. Here's a rec...
Why website monitoring is essential for building digital trust
Your website: it's where your customers connect with you. It's the digital embodiment of your brand, the 24/7 ambassador communicating your value and building crucial relationships. But what if that vital communication channel breaks down? Slowdowns, outages, and especially security breaches can instantly erode customer trust, inflicting lasting...
Network compliance and automation, IPAM, Cisco ACI monitoring, and more—key achievements in network monitoring: 2024
At Site24x7, we’ve always been about simplifying the complex and empowering IT teams to do more with less. This year was no different; we rolled out a host of new features and enhancements designed to help you manage your networks with greater confidence and ease. From streamlining compliance processes to enhancing visibility and automation, 202...
The quest for the four nines: Achieving 99.99% uptime with advanced website monitoring
In an age of instant access, your website is crucial for meeting customer expectations. Downtime, even fleetingly, translates directly into lost revenue, irreparable reputational damage, and the erosion of hard-earned customer trust. For enterprises, achieving near-perfect uptime – the coveted "four nines" (99.99% availability) – is no long...
Analyzing user behavior to optimize user experience
Every interaction a user has with your application—whether positive or negative—directly impacts your business outcomes. But how can you uncover what truly shapes these interactions? The answer lies in analyzing user behavior to identify opportunities for user experience optimization and improving performance as user impact.
Let's explore how un...
Cross-browser testing: Best practices for a seamless user experience
A wide variety of browsers are available in the market, with their usage varying significantly by device and region. Ensuring that your web applications work seamlessly across different browsers, devices, and versions is essential for providing a consistent and reliable user experience. This is where cross-browser testing comes in.
What is cross...
Charting the course in multi-cloud monitoring: Key moments from 2024
'Why settle for partly cloudy?' That's why Site24x7 went all in on making multi-cloud monitoring smarter, faster, and a lot less stressful. IT teams faced the usual chaos—expired certificates, rogue servers, and surprise bottlenecks—but Site24x7 stepped in with a toolkit so sharp, it could cut through latency like butter.
Whether you're herding ...
Top AWS monitoring best practices
AWS powers countless businesses with its vast services and unmatched scalability, but managing such a dynamic environment comes with challenges. Effective monitoring isn’t an option—it’s essential for ensuring performance, controlling costs, and maintaining compliance. Without a strategic approach, issues can escalate quickly, impacting customer...
The why and how of network availability monitoring
You might be familiar with the following scenario: You have a monitor displaying 20 open applications to oversee multiple networks or various aspects of your network infrastructure. Your inbox is steadily filling up with emails—many of which you can't seem to open and respond to in a timely manner. Outstanding tasks are accumulating, all due to ...
Strengthen your server security: Site24x7’s approach to patching and monitoring
Security is at the forefront of every decision made in the tech space. A key tool in the fight against server attacks is patching. In this article, let us learn how Windows-reliant enterprises secure their servers and VM instances: with patches and Site24x7.
What is a patch?
A patch is an update to a program or application that contains th...
5 key OCI services you must monitor for optimal cloud performance
Effectively monitoring Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services is crucial for maintaining smooth operations, cost efficiency, and robust security. OCI offers a suite of services, each vital to powering applications and workloads. Understanding what to monitor and why is key to preventing downtime, managing costs, and optimizing performance. T...
10 best practices to optimize single-page applications (SPAs)
Since they were introduced over two decades ago, single-page applications (SPAs) have transformed web experiences, offering fast and fluid interactions akin to native apps. With dynamic updates on a single HTML page, users can interact with a web app without waiting for page reloads. Compared to non-dynamic web pages, SPAs reduce server load and...
Year-end recap: What's new in IT infrastructure monitoring: 2024
Effective IT monitoring is critical to maintaining seamless operations, and 2024 has been a year of addressing challenges and delivering solutions with Site24x7.
From upgrading server health and performance to streamlining Kubernetes and VM administration, let's plunge into how Site24x7’s updates have helped IT teams tackle their m...
Reflecting on Site24x7's digital experience monitoring for the year 2024!
Last year, we made significant progress at Site24x7. We focused on delivering new features and updates to improve your monitoring experience.
Our releases and enhancements this year were more focused towards including more metrics, widening your visibility into the performance of your resources, and ensuring that you're not missing out on even t...
Top 5 AWS automations to enhance cloud operational efficiency
As cloud computing continues to dominate IT infrastructures, automation has emerged as a critical tool for enhancing operational efficiency, especially within platforms like AWS. By automating routine tasks and workflows, organizations can reduce the need for manual intervention, minimize human errors, and accelerate deployment cycles.
Automatio...
Reduce support inquiries with status pages
Service outages and disruptions often lead to a spike in customer inquiries that can overwhelm support teams and pull resources away from critical incident resolution tasks. Repetitive questions like “Is the service down?” or “When will it be fixed?” consume valuable time, delaying resolutions and increasing customer frustration
Proactive commun...
System availability and performance: Trends observed in 2024
When it comes to ensuring system availability and performance, the stakes have never been higher. Let's start with two important statistics:55% of data center operators experienced an outage in the last three years.21% of the outages in 2023 were with the public clouds and internet giantsIf you think moving from on-premises servers to a third-pa...
Tracking Microsoft SQL Slow Queries
The Microsoft SQL database is frequently used for storing, managing, and retrieving data for various application and computing purposes. However, one common issue that keeps the database from healthy functioning is slow query execution.
In this article, you will learn about slow queries and how to track the slow queries in your Microsof...
Understanding script errors and how to resolve them
Nothing is more frustrating for users than navigating a website only to encounter errors that interrupt their journey. Script errors, a common issue in web applications, are particularly challenging because they provide minimal information for diagnosis, showing only a cryptic "Script error" message in the browser console.Let's explore what scri...
Database optimization, Part 2: Database performance tuning and query optimization techniques
Imagine your business is running smoothly, but behind the scenes, your databases are struggling to keep up. Queries are lagging, resources are stretched thin, and user satisfaction is beginning to decline. Does this sound familiar? This is where database performance tuning comes in to save the day.
In this final portion of our two-part blog seri...
Database optimization, Part 1: Database performance tuning in the cloud era
Every click and scroll relies on fast, reliable data. The topic of data is incomplete without databases, which leads us to the next crucial topic: database performance tuning. The shift to cloud computing combined with the rise of diverse database types (SQL, NoSQL, and cloud-native databases) have brought new challenges and new ways to keep thi...
Windows Server 2025: Heads up for Site24x7 users
Microsoft has officially released Windows Server 2025 for general availability in early November, 2024. While this update has been expected for a long time, we want to cover the five major changes that have been rolled out with this release. Before we start with the features, let's start with two important questions that need to be addressed.
Do...
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...