Monitoring as code: An emerging idea in a cloud-native world

Monitoring as code (MaC) is a shift in thinking that is now being increasingly adopted in software development. Knowing the significance of MaC and incorporating monitoring in the development process early on brings a great number of benefits for DevOps teams.

MaC is an extension of the everything-as-code mindset adopted by De...


How Site24x7 automates your serverless workflows using the AWS Lambda function URL integration

AWS Lambda is a compute service that lets you run code on high-availability infrastructure without any server provisioning. You can perform tasks such as maintenance of servers and operating systems, capacity provisioning, automatic scaling, and code logging and monitoring.

When using AWS Lambda, you are just responsible for your code. ...


Why the end-user experience is crucial to achieving business success

This last decade has seen abundant changes in the way businesses operate. Digital transformation is no longer a new term, however, is still relevant. It has resulted in virtual establishments superseding the popularity of brick and mortar setups, becoming the prime choice of business operations.

In spite of multiple external factors acc...


What are the Core Web Vitals, and how can they affect my page performance?

What should I do to improve my webpage performance? Webpage owners frequently ask this question. Understanding some of the common performance-related issues and how they affect the digital user experience can help you optimize your page performance.

What are the major performance-related issues?


Enhancing the user experience with the idle timer

Welcome to the first blog in the Site24x7 engineering blog series.

We're happy to share the experiments and methods our developers have successfully implemented to provide a better, safe, and interactive UI to our customers. Here's how the implementation of idle timer improved the user experience.


Easy Debugging with JSON Formatter and Validator - Free Tool

How often do you stare at a JSON string cluster, hoping to interpret it? How many times do you wring your hands in despair, looking for the syntactical error that's causing the chaos? Well, we have some good news for you. We are here to help you cut down the long hours you spend in deciphering these extensive JSON strings. The ...


A 6-point action plan for software companies to manage the global chip shortage crisis

Since mid-2020, several global factors including a drought in Taiwan and the COVID-19 pandemic have resulted in a semiconductor chip shortage, which worsened further as demand for electronics shot up during the pandemic.

As offices and schools moved to homes and digital services became essential, in 2020 alone, 297 million PCs were sold...


Top 7 lessons from the 2021 Log4j vulnerability

The Log4Shell (CVE-2021-44228) zero-day vulnerability in the Java logging framework Log4j (versions 2.0 to 2.14.1) was revealed on December 9, 2021. The Apache Foundation assigned the maximum CVSS score of 10 to Log4Shell, as millions of servers and, potentially, billions of devices came at risk. Security professionals aro...


10 tips for log shipping using Fluentd

Fluentd is an open-source data collector that unifies data collection and consumption. It has different types of plugins that retrieve logs from external sources, parse them, and send them to log management tools like Site24x7 AppLogs. tail, forward, udp, tcp, http, syslog, exec, and windows_eventlog are common input plugins.

The way lo...


Be in charge of your cloud costs with these 2021 releases: CloudSpend recap

The widespread adoption of digital transformation triggered by the global health crisis has created a boom. For some businesses, the transition was smooth, but for others, it was an aggressive shift. Out of all the challenges posed by the transition to digital environments, messy cloud cost management and rocketing cloud bills are the most ta...