Top 6 reasons for website downtime and ways to prevent it

What is website downtime? Website downtime is a period during which a website is unavailable to its users, making them unable to carry out desired functions such as making purchases, accessing information, or ordering food. In a fast-paced digital landscape where users expect instant access, any delay or unavailability can have significant conse...

Incident communication best practices for an elevated user experience

This guide provides rich insights into what incident communication is, why it's important, and best practices for effective incident management.

What is an incident, and why is incident communication important?


Nine tips for building an effective digital resilience strategy

Is your business ready to not only withstand but also thrive during digital disruptions?  Today's business landscape heavily relies on digital technologies and online services. Digital resilience has become a critical concept to ensure business continuity and safeguard data. What is digital resilience? Digital resilience refers to an o...

VMware performance monitoring: Importance, benefits, and best practices for optimal VMware performance

Virtualization involves creating multiple virtual instances on a single physical server, allowing for efficient utilization of hardware resources and isolation of workloads. Businesses prefer a virtual environment as it can be tailored to meet specific security and performance requirements, and it provides numerous customization. The concept of ...

What is synthetic monitoring, and how can it help you?

Imagine that you own a flight booking site that helps people book flights along with a hotel at the destination. A user has signed up on your site and is trying to book a flight. Halfway through the process, the user gets stuck at the payment stage and isn't able to proceed. This repeats with multiple users from a specific location, and ...


Adding automation to monitoring: Azure troubleshooting simplified

The transition from traditional on-premises IT infrastructure to the public cloud has brought substantial relief to IT decision-makers and sysadmins. Since many organizations use Microsoft Windows as their preferred operating system, Microsoft Azure has become the public cloud provider of choice automatically owing to a familiar GUI and Active D...

6 ways to isolate performance issues in your monitors with Site24x7 Health Checks

Is it only us, or have you also felt that you cannot do much with just Monitor Group (MG)? If the feeling is mutual, we are on the same page. Your ops engineer might have felt that MG restricts the ability to perform IT automation. For an ops engineer, how easy it is to handle incidents depends on how frequently MG status alarms are received. En...

Top 4 best practice recommendations to reimagine AWS Lambda monitoring

AWS Lambda monitoring best practices Site24x7's AWS monitoring tool for AWS Lambda enhances real-time visibility into your Lambda functions. It monitors the health, efficiency, and log details of your Lambda functions. Site24x7 provides effective management of serverless operations by gathering statistics on function engagement, code execution d...

Top 5 Guidance Report recommendations by Site24x7 to enhance visibility into your AWS EC2

AWS EC2 Monitoring- Guidance Report recommendationsGetting visibility into your Amazon Web Services (AWS) Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances is a challenge. Site24x7 enables you to enhance your visibility into AWS EC2 instances, consolidating all information in a unified location. You can replace the isolated monitoring approach for EC2 insta...

Thank you, sysadmins, as always!

Happy World Sysadmin Day 2023 Sysadmins are often the last resort when your office system crashes or when the network slows to a trickle. Every July, on the last Friday, professionals worldwide express their gratitude and celebrate our IT heroes, our sysadmins. On July 28, 2023, we thank sysadmins for what they do best: monitoring our IT systems...