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 exe...


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...


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 unso...


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 judge...


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...


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...