Tag: web application monitoring

Website Uptime

The Impact of Uptime on Your Website’s Success

By using a web monitoring tool, you can be sure your site will be available at all times, no matter where a user might be around the world. You will also know when the performance of your site begins to suffer or experiences downtime, and Dotcom-Monitor will be there to help you resolve these issues.

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Performance Tech Tips

Top 15 Infrastructure Monitoring Tools in 2024

Maintaining a well-functioning IT infrastructure is vital to any business’s success. Infrastructure monitoring tools are essential for keeping tabs on all the components of your system, ensuring uptime, performance, and security. As 2024 unfolds, businesses are seeking the best tools that can handle their growing demands. In this post, we

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Network Services Monitoring

Top 25 Server Monitoring Tools

In this article we give our expert picks of the top 25 server monitoring tools to help monitor your website’s uptime and give your users the best experience, starting with our own solution at Dotcom-Monitor. Learn why server monitoring is an essential part of any monitoring strategy.

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Website Uptime

Top 20 Synthetic Monitoring Tools

Synthetic monitoring allows teams to monitor and measure website and web application performance around the clock from every conceivable vantage point, and to receive alerts before issues begin to impact real users. Here are our top picks for synthetic monitoring tools, leading with our own at Dotcom-Monitor.

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Web App Functionality

WebSocket Monitoring

WebSockets have been around for over a decade now, but the real-time web existed long before they came. This preceding ‘real-time’ web was typically slower and hard to achieve. It was attained by hacking available web technologies that were not primarily built for real-time applications. There was no solution with

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Network Services Monitoring

Monitoring Distributed Systems

Monitoring distributed systems is essential to keep your system running smoothly, efficiently, and reliably. With the growing reliance on distributed systems in everything from web services to cloud computing and large-scale applications, having a robust monitoring setup is crucial. Let’s dive into what distributed systems are, their different types, key

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Performance Tech Tips

Internal Applications: Monitoring from Behind Your Firewall

Monitoring internal applications presents unique challenges. These applications, which may be crucial for employee productivity, secure data access, and internal workflows, don’t interact with the public internet, making traditional monitoring tools and strategies less effective. However, keeping these applications stable and performant is critical, as any downtime can affect entire

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Web App Functionality

Monitoring Applications That Use Azure ADFS

ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services) is a solution from Microsoft for single sign-on (SSO) functionality. It is used by organizations   that have their users on Windows Servers to provide authentication and authorization to web-based applications or services outside the organization. ADFS implements federated identity and claim-based access control to authenticate

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Web App Functionality

Challenges in Monitoring Applications That Use OAuth

OAuth has become the go-to protocol for secure, third-party access to APIs, making it a cornerstone of modern applications. For businesses integrating third-party services or enabling secure logins via platforms like Google, Facebook, or Microsoft, OAuth provides a way to manage user permissions without compromising security. However, while OAuth simplifies

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Web App Functionality

Why Stack Trace APM Isn’t Enough for Complete Web Application Monitoring

When your web application runs smoothly, it’s easy to forget the complex processes working under the hood. But when issues arise, they can often reveal hidden weaknesses in your monitoring approach. While stack trace application performance monitoring (APM) tools are excellent for tracking down errors within your code, relying solely

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