It’s been a few weeks since I got back from trekking to the Everest Base Camp in Nepal. Reaching an altitude of over 5500 meters (18,208 ft), and seeing the spectacular gold-bathed peaks of Everest, Nuptse, and the grand Lhotse at sunset made the grueling 10 days leading up to…
Single page application (SPA) is a web application that has a single HTML page and dynamically updates the views depending on user interaction. SPAs provide a rich user experience with its simplicity; a customer can access the website on multiple different platforms and devices and still get the same experience. Monitoring the…
When people think of synthetic monitoring outside the firewall they often think of website monitoring or HTTP monitoring. While HTTP is one of the most widely used protocols, there are many other protocols that require synthetic testing from outside the firewall or from the end users’ perspective. It is just…
Organizations deploy numerous solutions to monitor, alert, analyze, and share information – all to improve user experience. Finding the best tool or solution for the job can be stressful and time-consuming. Teams often test many tools simultaneously, which leads to disorganization and confusion over where to look when it’s time…
One of our key features is the ability to visualize the data any way you want by creating custom visualizations. Our customers have taken the stock visualizations (Grid, GeoChart, World Cloud, etc.) and modified them to meet their own needs, which have resulted in some really cool views of their data. In…
In this final part of our Node-RED integration blog series, I will be covering how you can accelerate your website performance monitoring strategy by building a custom dashboard using the popular open data visualization platform, Grafana. We will be using Node-RED to act as the endpoint for the Test Data Webhook, which…
Today’s finance customers are not comparing their experience between banks or insurance companies; instead, they’re measuring customer experience to Amazon, Southwest Airlines, Apple, and Disney, as well as fintech and insurtech companies. Because of this change in consumer behavior, financial services companies must find a way to move at Silicon…
Defining the term ‘monitoring’ is a difficult task considering the performance space has evolved significantly over the years. Lately, there has been a shift in the monitoring world, sparking a healthy debate regarding the definition and purpose of monitoring, through which a new term has emerged: observability. Some of that debate can be found in…
Organizations deploy numerous solutions to monitor, alert, analyze, and share information – all to improve user experience. Finding the best tool or solution for the job can be stressful and time-consuming. Teams often test many tools simultaneously, which leads to disorganization and confusion over where to look when it’s time…
As the very first interaction between an end user and a digital property, DNS resolution is arguably the single most important component of any web transaction. In this sense, fast DNS is just as important as fast content, and something that every single company must take into consideration when establishing their online…
