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Night of the Runbooks: a DevOps Horror Story
It was a dark and stormy night. Not really, of course; it was warm and pleasantly mild (the weather never seems to co-operate …
15 Tips for Moving Data Between Web Monitoring Providers and Uptime.com
Migrations carry a setup cost and engineers don’t work for free. Even under the most ideal conditions, it’s possible moving data between web …
The Benefit of Devops on the Customer Experience
If there’s no customer, there’s no job. In a competitive marketplace, every site element matters from the functionality of your service to your …
Building and Using a 2020 Status Page with Uptime.com
A hosted status page gives you the peace of mind that users can always answer one simple question: is it up or down. …
Getting the Most out of Your Website Performance Audit
A website performance audit is a full analysis of your marketing, usability, and search ranking. Audits are no sunny afternoon picnic. For your …
How to Optimize Business Success with Website Monitoring
There’s an old proverb; an inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an …
Should I Buy or Should I Build; or “When is Free Software Free”?
Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster? Quick, no conferring. If you thought the answer was …
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Root Cause Analysis: Uptime.com Problem Solving Tools
You manage one of the world’s largest messaging platforms. It’s the middle of the afternoon and you are feeling confidence set in. Your …
The Google Blacklist: What It Is & How to Avoid It
Every process on the net is a logical journey, including the Google blacklist – even when it’s done in error. Nothing kills profits …
How Uptime.com can Help Improve Internal Documentation
An acquaintance of mine works for a company that still uses Windows XP to manage some internal applications. The higher ups of the …
How to Stay on Google’s Good Side
For the first 6 months of 2020, Google has continued its monopoly on search engine use with an average net market share of …
How to Gain Observability with Custom Checks and External Monitoring
Slack recently had a no good very bad day in which some broken external monitoring contributed to a perfect storm. But one passage …