The importance of error budgets for SREs and how to monitor them

Digital-first customers who are always on the go expect a seamless experience. But let’s face it—100% uptime is a myth. Trying to achieve it can drain resources and stifle innovation. This is where error budgets come in. They help site reliability engineers (SREs) find the sweet spot between delivering reliability and development velocity. With ...

The hidden costs of not tracking network configurations

Has this ever happened in your workplace? A key application goes offline during peak working hours, or worse, when a client is evaluating your business, leaving network administrators scrambling to identify the cause. Could it be a misconfigured switch, an unauthorized change to a router, or undocumented configuration drift? Without proper netwo...

Transform your workflow with comprehensive Toolset

Managing websites, handling development tasks, and ensuring data accuracy can often feel like juggling multiple responsibilities at once. What if there was a way to bring all these tasks under one roof? With the launch of our all-in-one toolset, you no longer need to rely on fragmented solutions. Designed for professionals who value simplicity a...

How to use the command line interface effectively

Organizations and homelabbers are always on the look out for improving efficiency. Remember back in 2023, when Mark Zuckerberg pivoted all decisions in support of Meta's Year of Efficiency? When you are working with IT infrastructure, efficiency must be a primary factor in all your decisions. This is where the command line interface...


Booting explained: Types, instructions, and problems

When you are booting up a server and encounter an error, it helps to know at which stage the booting failed to troubleshoot the error effectively instead of running around in circles. To help you understand the booting process better, let's go over the steps involved.

In this test, when the power button is pressed, the system'...


How enterprises can reduce revenue loss from downtime with proactive monitoring

Unforeseen downtime silently erodes enterprise revenue. Every minute a system, application, or service is unavailable directly impacts profitability. Lost sales opportunities, compromised customer experiences, and frustration are the immediate consequences. While reactive measures can attempt to contain the damage caused by a breakdown, true res...

Mitigating enterprise-grade DDoS Attacks with advanced website monitoring

Evolution of DDoS attacks in forms and severities is a major financial and reputational threat to most enterprises. A huge share of enterprises experiencing a DDoS attack in the past year had attacks lasting over for an average of four hours and costing millions of dollars (revenue and mitigation expenses), according to a recent study.  Whi...

Learnings from eight major outages of 2024 and best practices to stay prepared

While we cannot eliminate internet outages, lag, or security breaches, reflecting on the lessons learned from these events helps us cope, innovate, and implement measures to reduce how often they occur. In 2024, website and application outages had a significantly greater impact on the world than in previous years, leaving the IT community with v...

Global website monitoring: Best practices for international businesses

With a sluggish page a smooth global performance would be a far fletched dream. A tainted brand reputation, irritated customers abandoning your’s for a better site, lost businesses are all that a slow or poorly localized webpage can bring. To establish your digital presence across the globe, you’ll have to equip yourselves with some effective to...

A perfect digital strategy: A CXO's guide to website monitoring trends in 2025

In 2025, your enterprise's digital presence isn't just about availability; it's about resilience, responsiveness, and delivering consistently exceptional experiences. As a CXO, you need to look beyond basic uptime metrics and embrace a more sophisticated, proactive approach to website monitoring. This isn't just about...