Website Fiascos & Lessons learned - A Quick Recap

Recent website fiascos led us to pen down a series of blogs focusing on the subject. Here are the four parts Part 1, Part 2 , Part 3 and Part 4. Incase you missed it, continue reading for a quick recap.

Here is the story so far: Websites

After a couple of website glitches last September, including the Obamacare website crash, monitoring your website form a user's perspective has become mandatory. Some quick pointers to proactively monitor the performance of your website: 

• Take one step beyond your QA's effort and test for realistic monitoring scenarios

• Keep an eye on the response time and content accuracy of your webpages 

• Get the geographical response time discrepancies fixed 

Beyond websites 

To prevent server glitches like those suffered by the Government websites, you should continuously monitor your datacenter infrastructure.

• Watch out for the mail servers, databases, VMware resources etc.,

• Keep track of your monitoring metrics and your resource availability

• Define your alerting policies well

Apart from monitoring the performance of your websites and datacenters, you should enable deep application code level visibility. Site24x7 allows you to easily visualize end-to-end transactions, starting from URL to SQL query. The custom dashboard view and automatic reporting sytem keeps you posted about the issues in your code.

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