Improved Guidance Report: New checks, customizable baselines, and scheduled email reports

As you may already know, our Guidance Report not only inspects your AWS account using best practice recommendation checks, but it also finds avenues to improve performance, reliability, and savings so you can deploy resources with confidence. Today, I'm excited to announce that we've introduced some enhancements to make the Guidance...


5 features that help you power up AWS observability

Before we take a deep dive into the ways to achieve observability, it is important to understand what observability is and how it is achieved. Frequently, observability is confused with monitoring. Observability provides end-to-end visibility into a system’s internal health by using the data it generates: logs, traces, and metrics....


Two Factor Authentication – What it is and How to implement it

One of the biggest pains of using the internet today is constantly being forced to create new accounts to use basic services on the internet. While many tech savvy users know to use password managers to allow them to create unique strong passwords for each website, the average internet user is much less sophisticated. Even after being told ov...


Monitoring as code: An emerging idea in a cloud-native world

Monitoring as code (MaC) is a shift in thinking that is now being increasingly adopted in software development. Knowing the significance of MaC and incorporating monitoring in the development process early on brings a great number of benefits for DevOps teams.

MaC is an extension of the everything-as-code mindset adopted by De...


How Site24x7 automates your serverless workflows using the AWS Lambda function URL integration

AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code on high-availability infrastructure without any server provisioning. You can perform tasks such as maintenance of servers and operating systems, capacity provisioning, automatic scaling, and code logging and monitoring.

When using AWS Lambda, you are just responsible for your code. ...


Why the end-user experience is crucial to achieving business success

This last decade has seen abundant changes in the way businesses operate. Digital transformation is no longer a new term, however, is still relevant. It has resulted in virtual establishments superseding the popularity of brick and mortar setups, becoming the prime choice of business operations.

In spite of multiple external factors acc...


What are the Core Web Vitals, and how can they affect my page performance?

What should I do to improve my webpage performance? Webpage owners frequently ask this question. Understanding some of the common performance-related issues and how they affect the digital user experience can help you optimize your page performance.

What are the major performance-related issues?


Enhancing the user experience with the idle timer

Welcome to the first blog in the Site24x7 engineering blog series.

We're happy to share the experiments and methods our developers have successfully implemented to provide a better, safe, and interactive UI to our customers. Here's how the implementation of idle timer improved the user experience.


Easy Debugging with JSON Formatter and Validator - Free Tool

How often do you stare at a JSON string cluster, hoping to interpret it? How many times do you wring your hands in despair, looking for the syntactical error that's causing the chaos? Well, we have some good news for you. We are here to help you cut down the long hours you spend in deciphering these extensive JSON strings. The ...


A 6-point action plan for software companies to manage the global chip shortage crisis

Since mid-2020, several global factors including a drought in Taiwan and the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a semiconductor chip shortage, which worsened further as demand for electronics shot up during the pandemic.

As offices and schools moved to homes and digital services became essential, in 2020 alone, 297 million PCs were sold...