Telemetry Pipeline Insights & Observability Best Practices
Monitoring tools: A software rot watchdog
In addition to measuring performance metrics, website and application monitoring tools can help your company’s developers write better code by identifying changes that hurt efficiency. Monitoring tools can point development teams towards problems relating to active software rot, which describes how continual updates to software can deplete software performance and integrity. Your business can compare … Read more
Black Friday 2017 Predictions: Mobile over Desktop?
Mobile customer engagement service Mobify is projecting that 2017 is the year that people will spend more money on mobile platforms than traditional desktop computers on Black Friday. While mobile website traffic surpassed its desktop counterpart on Black Friday back in 2015, people were more likely to complete purchases on a traditional computer then. This year, Black Friday could easily top … Read more
Location Monitoring: Looking at Global IoT Preparedness
As businesses invest in Internet of Things technologies for new opportunities, it’s important to understand how technical and social factors play in to how well-primed a region is for expansion. The Internet isn’t created equally depending on where a person is, so while IoT devices may perform well in the coastal United States, elsewhere, the … Read more
What Web Performance Metrics Should You Be Monitoring?
Needless to say, top-notch web performance is crucial for any company, regardless of size. But how do you know if you’re watching the right website performance metrics? Measuring Web Performance When monitoring the real-time performance of a website or application, there are a number of measurable data points and operations that should be clearly understood … Read more
DDoS Aftershock: SEO Damage
A distributed denial of service attack, or DDoS, is a bad enough inconvenience concerning your company’s website and application performance, so it’s even more frustrating to know that it could cause your site’s appearance in search engine results to take a hit. This is particularly annoying for businesses because the SEO hit doesn’t stem from … Read more
Emerging IoT Technologies: More Devices to Monitor
Internet of Things devices serve as one of the most exciting opportunities for businesses to grow but come with the caveat of far greater reliance on monitoring and load testing technologies. It’s very much a paradigm shift in how many devices-per-person Internet infrastructures needs to look at handling; it’s no longer one computer and smartphone each, but rather dozens … Read more
Routers: Both Targets & Perpetrators In DDoS Attacks
The most recent major distributed denial-of-service attacks have stemmed from hackers hijacking countless Internet of Things devices and using them to create massive botnets to knock down servers; however, other devices like routers are still major contributors. Routers have the unfortunate distinction of often being targeted during a DDoS attack and as a device capable … Read more
Velocity San Jose 2017: Meet Apica at Booth 506
We’re just over a week away from Velocity San Jose 2017. As a proud sponsor of the show, we’re excited to meet all the systems and site reliability engineers, architects, application developers, and performance-passionate people. Beers on us at Velocity San Jose 2017! Come have a friendly beer with us at booth #506 from 1:00 … Read more
APM Basics Plus Gartner’s 5 Dimensions of APM
Application Performance Management, or APM, refers to the practice of monitoring software availability and performance. However, performance management tools go far beyond just measuring uptime and response time: APM services aim to improve the user experience through data that provides insight into how an application performs and why. In other words, the performance management application’s … Read more
What We Learned from Amazon’s S3 Outage & How to Avoid It
Amazon’s S3 in Northern Virginia caused large-scale disruption for many companies – not to mention the financial consequences of dreaded downtime. There are several important lessons businesses should take from this unprecedented failure, the key takeaway being that preparation is paramount. If Amazon’s cloud can go down, then any site is at risk of suffering … Read more
Website Monitoring: How Overload Outages Develop
Mobile application overload outages quickly eat into your business’s bottom line. The right preparation, load testing, and monitoring can help your business keep an eye on both existing and potential traffic trends to predict outage risks. Outages from overloads are not usually random or unpredictable, and can typically be avoided if your business knows how … Read more
Developing and Implementing a Monitoring Strategy
and application monitoring provide immensely helpful information for improving your online platform’s performance-based customer experience. However, that information is only as useful as what your team does with it. According to a survey by Big Panda, IT professionals claimed “improving their organization’s overall monitoring strategy” is the biggest monitoring challenge in 2017. This article outlines … Read more
