Events are actionable signals derived from observability's core pillars—metrics, traces, and logs—that are converged to deliver end-to-end visibility across your tech stack. They can be used to flag operational shifts or anomalies, such as server crashes, traffic surges, or sluggish database queries. Events from metrics highl...

Monitoring your vast cloud environments is an important aspect of achieving such performance. Site24x7 Google Cloud Monitoring has been an indispensable tool for you and thousands of IT professionals to maintain the health and availability of Google Cloud resources.

Have you ever wanted to know how Site24x7 does it without breaking a sw...

Website monitoring can be much more effective with more specifics and details. Before diving into the specifics of monitoring, it's best to define your goals and preferences first. What is your target for implementing the monitoring? Is a better uptime all you are looking for, or do you wish to fine-tune your site's user experi...

As we are talking about Oracle databases here, you are probably aware of the system global area (SGA) and program global area (PGA) in Oracle, which play a crucial role in database memory management. Let us explore memory allocation in detail and how to configure these for peak efficiency.

The SGA and PGA in Oracle a...

According to the 2024 Statista report on global crucial data center IT outages from 2020-2023 , power disruptions have become the leading cause of outages, rising from 37% in 2020 to 52% in 2023. This shift highlights an increasing vulnerability in infrastructure reliability, making proactive server monitoring more critical than eve...

Today, eBPF is a powerful, widely accepted technology that operates at the kernel level of the operating system. It enables real-time, low-overhead monitoring of system calls, network traffic, and resource usage across applications and containerized deployments. Celebrated system performance expert and author Brendan Gregg once quipped that &...

This blog dives into the common causes of high latency in EC2 instances. You'll learn how to diagnose high latency and get practical fixes to restore speed.

Latency in your EC2 instances can arise from multiple sources and requires precise identification to resolve it effectively.

When a node is low on resources—as in CPU, memory, or storage—a workload may suffer from failures, degraded performance, and eviction.

If you want your cluster to run smoothly, it's time to learn how to identify the root causes of your node resource exhaustion and take proactive steps to mitigate them before something g...

SLOs also mark the maximum error amount or period a system is allowed to experience within a timeframe to be judged as acceptable. Akin to a financial budget, an error budget expresses the things gone wrong (errors) as a percentage of the total time or requests that transpire in a timeframe: for example, 1% of monthly requ...

Picture a busy Monday morning. You are working on leftover projects from the previous week, and assuming everything is fine with your applications as you had not received support tickets during the weekend. All of a sudden, during the middle of the day, you get a flood of reports from users who complain about slow response in your application...

Do you ever look at the list of metrics you monitor and feel overwhelmed? That is a nice problem to have instead of needing to tweak your server performance KPIs because your server monitoring tool does not monitor them. With Site24x7's server monitoring suite, it is easy to be spoiled for choice when it comes to which metric to mon...

In this blog, we'll explore the best practices for monitoring web servers such Apache, NGINX, IIS, Tomcat, and more.

Starting with the basics, it's important to track uptime to check if your server is even online. Be sure to check response time, too, as this directly contributes to a user’s first impression—slow lo...

Real-time apps, like e-commerce platforms, gaming systems, or live streaming services, thrive on speed and responsiveness. AWS ElastiCache, an in-memory caching solution, drives these apps by providing fast data access with low latency, reducing database strain and scaling effortlessly. Yet, to ensure your app runs smoothly, monitoring Elasti...

Particularly, in architectures that are event driven, latency can cause bottlenecks in microservices, impact transaction speeds, and reduce the efficiency of event-driven workflows.

In this blog, we will explore the common causes of latency in event-driven architecture and provide effective troubleshooting techniques. Plus, we will see ...

By mimicking user behavior across several browsers and devices, browser emulation offers a more close to realistic evaluation of the digital experience. Its multi-browser testing feature makes it possible to find rendering, JavaScript execution, and CSS handling issues in a variety of browsers, including Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. By ...

Azure Service Bus is a critical messaging service for building scalable cloud applications, but performance bottlenecks can lead to delayed message processing, throttling, or even dropped messages. It is essential to identify and resolve these issues to maintain smooth application workflows and prevent downtime. This blog explores common Azur...

During emergencies and illnesses, people expect intuitive healthcare services. When multiple tests and reports are involved, patients anticipate that the results will be available to their doctors instantly for quick diagnoses. Waiting for a paper copy of each test result is not feasible.

Patients feel that they are in safe hands if the...

All events are not incidents; think about it. In IT observability , an event is any detectable occurrence or change within a system—such as a server request, API call, error log, or security breach. These events are a vital ingredient of IT observability—the ability to look into how a system functions from the outside. When c...

The difficulty, though, is in creating a system that can satisfy the particular requirements of big businesses. Monitoring becomes more difficult in large enterprises due to the sheer volume of individuals, devices, apps, and services involved. In addition to offering real-time warnings and predictive analytics, a well-architected digital exp...

Contemporary businesses are aware of how important digital experience management (DEM) is to improving consumer experiences and spurring expansion. However, there are many obstacles to integrating DEM with current, very intricate legacy systems. A planned integration strategy is essential for a smooth transition and to fully utilize...

In-app purchases (IAPs) are the lifeblood of mobile app monetization, but getting users to complete a transaction isn’t always easy. A slow checkout page, a failed payment request, or even a minor delay in loading the purchase screen can make users abandon their purchase altogether.

So, how do you optimize the app conver...

MySQL connection pooling is revolutionary because it speeds up queries, conserves resources, and allows applications to handle high traffic effortlessly. Yet here's the catch: If your connection pools aren't monitored properly, they can become hidden bottlenecks that slow everything down. Let's break down what MySQL connec...

As organizations increasingly rely on complex server ecosystems, traditional monitoring methods often struggle to kee pace with the volume and complexity of data generated. AI can be a star player here.

In this article, we will explore how AI is integrated into Site24x7's server monitoring; its benefits; use cases; a...

Imagine a travel agency: Customers browsing for a dream vacation encounter messy website navigation and longer load times, leading to lost bookings. With a DEM platform, the navigation bottlenecks can be identified. These insights can then be used to refine the website design, providing a more intuitive and efficient user experience whil...

Deadlocks are common in multi-threaded applications and can be caused by improper handling of shared resources such as:

Use tools like a thread dump analyzer to analyze the state of threads periodically and identify potential deadlocks.

Digital experience monitoring, or DEM, is now an essential part of digital enterprises rather than a supplemental tool. It enables businesses to comprehend fully and optimize user interactions across all touchpoints , including internal tools, mobile applications, and websites. But using DEM successfully requires more than just installing new...

In this guide, we’ll explore key performance bottlenecks and actionable tips to optimize AWS Lambda for speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

Here are some of the common factors affecting Lambda performance:

With technology progressing at one end, the need for a perfect, glitch-free user experience is also plummeting at the other end. It's a necessity now, and users expect to have smooth expertise irrespective of location, device, and time. There's no other way than to adhere to these needs for businesses.

The age of using tools i...

DEM is a proactive, data-driven approach that goes beyond problem identification to understand and enhance the entire customer journey. Crucial is the workflow, a laborious process that begins with detection and concludes with resolution.

The first step is to listen to your customers—and their digital interactions. A strong DEM to...

Modern businesses need a fast, reliable, and seamless digital experience. Proactive monitoring of the user experience—understanding how users interact with all digital touchpoints—is vital. This blog post explores the fundamentals of this approach, its significance, and key implementation strategies.

DEM is a way to track th...

However, ensuring that your Kafka infrastructure operates smoothly is not a task you can simply set and forget. Due to the large volume of incoming data, issues like system slowdowns, bottlenecks, and unexpected breakdowns can happen at any time. This is why monitoring Kafka is essential. By closely observing system health, performance, and d...

There are two types of alerts you don't want:

We call these false alerts. As a person with responsibility over your IT infrastructure, it is natural that you have configured your monitoring systems to alert you at every step. But when these false alerts take up too much of your time, one of these unfortunate scenarios may occu...

Making sure that users have a smooth, pleasurable experience with your digital platform—whether it be a website, mobile application, or any other online service—is essential for business success. Benchmarking is a crucial technique that can increase the usefulness of digital experience monitoring. By offering a point of comparison...

Modern IT involves an expanding use of AI, enhancements from the DevOps culture, and traditional uses of containers, virtual machines, microservices-led architecture, multiple cloud, and others. Monitoring technology has not entirely caught up with contemporary IT needs due to various reasons. Traditional monitoring methods were often patched...

The rapid adoption of cloud-native applications has revolutionized how businesses innovate, scale, and optimize costs. These applications leverage microservices, containers, and serverless functions, allowing seamless collaboration across multiple platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure. However, managing performance in such a distributed environm...

When something goes wrong during application deployment, it becomes all the more crucial to diagnose the issue methodically and get things back on track. This guide walks you through practical steps for troubleshooting deployment failures efficiently.

A Kubernetes deployment is a vital component for managing and automating the rollout p...

The Kubernetes API server is considered the core of the control plane. It acts as the main communication hub, processing and validating requests from users, controllers, and other Kubernetes components.

Whether you're deploying a new application, scaling workloads, or retrieving cluster metrics, all interactions go through the API ...

Persistent storage is the backbone of stateful applications running in Kubernetes. Whether you are managing databases, logs, or application states, ensuring transactional data remains intact despite pod restarts or node failures is a challenge. In this blog, we will discuss the most common persistent storage issues in Kubernetes and how to ha...