Advanced  architecture for digital experience monitoring in large enterprises 

Businesses use their digital platforms to communicate with clients, streamline operations, and deliver outstanding experiences. Nowadays, the phrase "digital experience" encompasses all user interactions with online platforms, including navigating mobile apps and dealing with chatbots. In this regard, companies must reevaluate their...


Integrating DEM with legacy systems: Challenges and solutions 

Contemporary businesses are aware of how important digital experience management (DEM) is to improving consumer experiences and spurring expansion. However, there are many obstacles to integrating DEM with current, very intricate legacy systems. A planned integration strategy is essential for a smooth transition and to fully utilize...


What happens when networks aren't monitored? Key risks and consequences

In today's hyper-disruptive risk climate, most businesses are under-prepared. With cyberattacks threatening organizations every day, even the most experienced risk professionals are under growing uncertainty. In this climate, can you really afford not to monitor your networks?  Failing to monitor your network isn't just a technical over...

Boosting in-app purchase success rates: Five proven strategies for seamless transactions

In-app purchases (IAPs) are the lifeblood of mobile app monetization, but getting users to complete a transaction isn’t always easy. A slow checkout page, a failed payment request, or even a minor delay in loading the purchase screen can make users abandon their purchase altogether.

So, how do you optimize the app conver...


Mastering MySQL connection pooling: Why monitoring matters

MySQL connection pooling is revolutionary because it speeds up queries, conserves resources, and allows applications to handle high traffic effortlessly. Yet here's the catch: If your connection pools aren't monitored properly, they can become hidden bottlenecks that slow everything down. Let's break down what MySQL connec...


AI in server monitoring

As organizations increasingly rely on complex server ecosystems, traditional monitoring methods often struggle to kee pace with the volume and complexity of data generated. AI can be a star player here.

In this article, we will explore how AI is integrated into Site24x7's server monitoring; its benefits; use cases; a...


How digital  experience monitoring (DEM) tools improve both customer and employee journeys

Imagine a travel agency: Customers browsing for a dream vacation encounter messy website navigation and longer load times, leading to lost bookings. With a DEM platform, the navigation bottlenecks can be identified. These insights can then be used to refine the website design, providing a more intuitive and efficient user experience whil...


Identifying and fixing deadlocks in Java

Deadlocks are common in multi-threaded applications and can be caused by improper handling of shared resources such as:

Use tools like a thread dump analyzer to analyze the state of threads periodically and identify potential deadlocks.


Cultural change and leadership in adopting DEM for business innovation

Digital experience monitoring, or DEM, is now an essential part of digital enterprises rather than a supplemental tool. It enables businesses to comprehend fully and optimize user interactions across all touchpoints , including internal tools, mobile applications, and websites. But using DEM successfully requires more than just installing new...


Continuous Microsoft app monitoring: A step-by-step approach to iterative optimization

Monitoring and optimizing performance for Microsoft applications is not a one-time effort—it requires ongoing refinement, proactive troubleshooting, and strategic adjustments. For IT teams managing Microsoft technologies like Hyper-V, Exchange, IIS, and SQL Server, continuous performance enhancement is a competitive advantage. How do you monitor...

7 pro tips for optimizing AWS Lambda functions

In this guide, we’ll explore key performance bottlenecks and actionable tips to optimize AWS Lambda for speed, scalability, and cost-effectiveness.

Here are some of the common factors affecting Lambda performance:


Tackling geographic discrepancies in user experience for mid-market businesses with real user monitoring

Middle market businesses operate in a unique space—they need to do more with less. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a SaaS platform, or a service-based website, customers of mid-market businesses expect fast-loading pages and smooth interactions—no matter where they are.  Creating a seamless digital experience is essential for cu...

Why APM should be viewed as a long-term strategic investment, not just a cost

Slow-loading websites frustrate many users, pushing them to the brink of considering the business's competitors. Users are not going to patiently wait until a site provides optimal performance. Thus, an application’s performance is directly tied to its business success. Every second of downtime isn’t just a technical issue—it’s lost revenue, fru...

Top 10 Kubernetes alerts and why they are essential?

Running a SaaS business on Kubernetes is similar to walking a tightrope: You can easily fall if there's even a slight mistake. Problems like node failure, high traffic, and resource usage can all damage the application's environment. Managing Kubernetes at a production scale is complex for a variety of reasons, including unexpected failures, res...

Digital experience monitoring (DEM)-ITSM integration for holistic  IT management 


With technology progressing at one end, the need for a perfect, glitch-free user experience is also plummeting at the other end. It's a necessity now, and users expect to have smooth expertise irrespective of location, device, and time. There's no other way than to adhere to these needs for businesses.

The age of using tools i...


From detection to resolution: The DEM workflow

DEM is a proactive, data-driven approach that goes beyond problem identification to understand and enhance the entire customer journey. Crucial is the workflow, a laborious process that begins with detection and concludes with resolution.

The first step is to listen to your customers—and their digital interactions. A strong DEM to...


DEM 101: Understanding and implementing digital experience monitoring

Modern businesses need a fast, reliable, and seamless digital experience. Proactive monitoring of the user experience—understanding how users interact with all digital touchpoints—is vital. This blog post explores the fundamentals of this approach, its significance, and key implementation strategies.

DEM is a way to track th...


The critical role of Kafka monitoring in managing big data streams

However, ensuring that your Kafka infrastructure operates smoothly is not a task you can simply set and forget. Due to the large volume of incoming data, issues like system slowdowns, bottlenecks, and unexpected breakdowns can happen at any time. This is why monitoring Kafka is essential. By closely observing system health, performance, and d...


5 strategies to reduce false alerts in server monitoring

There are two types of alerts you don't want:

We call these false alerts. As a person with responsibility over your IT infrastructure, it is natural that you have configured your monitoring systems to alert you at every step. But when these false alerts take up too much of your time, one of these unfortunate scenarios may occu...


The importance of benchmarking in digital experience monitoring

Making sure that users have a smooth, pleasurable experience with your digital platform—whether it be a website, mobile application, or any other online service—is essential for business success. Benchmarking is a crucial technique that can increase the usefulness of digital experience monitoring. By offering a point of comparison...


Why traditional event correlation falls short in modern IT and how AIOps can help

Eodern IT involves an expanding use of AI, enhancements from the DevOps culture, and traditional uses of containers, virtual machines, microservices-led architecture, multiple cloud, and others. Monitoring technology has not entirely caught up with contemporary IT needs due to various reasons. Traditional monitoring methods were often patched...


The ultimate guide to cloud-native application performance monitoring with AWS, GCP, and Azure

The rapid adoption of cloud-native applications has revolutionized how businesses innovate, scale, and optimize costs. These applications leverage microservices, containers, and serverless functions, allowing seamless collaboration across multiple platforms like AWS, GCP, and Azure. However, managing performance in such a distributed environm...


Troubleshooting Kubernetes deployment failures

When something goes wrong during application deployment, it becomes all the more crucial to diagnose the issue methodically and get things back on track. This guide walks you through practical steps for troubleshooting deployment failures efficiently.

A Kubernetes deployment is a vital component for managing and automating the rollout p...


Monitoring for Kubernetes API server performance lags

The Kubernetes API server is considered the core of the control plane. It acts as the main communication hub, processing and validating requests from users, controllers, and other Kubernetes components.

Whether you're deploying a new application, scaling workloads, or retrieving cluster metrics, all interactions go through the API ...


Handling persistent storage problems in Kubernetes clusters

Persistent storage is the backbone of stateful applications running in Kubernetes. Whether you are managing databases, logs, or application states, ensuring transactional data remains intact despite pod restarts or node failures is a challenge. In this blog, we will discuss the most common persistent storage issues in Kubernetes and how to ha...


Enhancing Jenkins performance: Resource optimization for high-traffic workloads

Before diving into optimizations, it's essential to understand how Jenkins consumes resources:

Identifying these bottlenecks through monitoring tools can help optimize Jenkins effectively. You can leverage Site24x7's Jenkins monitoring plugin to track performance issues and stay ahead.


From basics to benefits: A beginner’s guide to cloud computing

Cloud computing powers everything from startups to global enterprises. With it, a new business can scale quickly without investing in expensive servers, while large organizations can store vast amounts of data and run applications seamlessly across the world. Simply put, cloud computing delivers computing resources over the internet that are sca...

Mastering Docker for seamless application deployment

Imagine you're developing an application on your laptop. It runs perfectly, but when you deploy it on a server, things break—dependency mismatches, configuration issues, and endless debugging. Docker eliminates these problems by packaging applications and their dependencies into portable, lightweight containers. This ensures that applications ru...

What are Kubernetes audit logs and how to monitor them?

What is Kubernetes audit logging? Kubernetes audit logging is the process of tracking and recording API requests and activities within a Kubernetes cluster. These logs capture important information about who accessed the cluster, what actions were performed, when they occurred, and the resources involved. Audit logs track all actions in your Kub...

Using Amazon RDS for high availability: How monitoring ensures reliable failover

This blog explores how Amazon RDS achieves high availability, the role of failover, and why proactive monitoring is key for a seamless database experience.

Amazon RDS ensures high availability through Multi-AZ deployments, maintaining a standby replica in a different availability zone. If the primary instance fails, the standby is promo...


Migrating to cloud: Top five reasons

Since the inception of public clouds, a lot of CXOs have considered moving their IT infrastructure to the cloud and many have already done that. If your organization is considering migration to the cloud, learn what drove this mass movement from on-premises servers to the cloud. In this article, we'll explain the major reasons why organi...


Solving slow startup times in Google Cloud Functions for application developers

Understanding cold starts in Google Cloud FunctionsCold starts occur when a Google Cloud Function is invoked after being idle, requiring the underlying infrastructure to spin up a new instance before execution. This happens because GCP Cloud Functions is a serverless environment—meaning compute resources are provisioned on demand. While this des...

Free network monitoring: Full network visibility without the cost

Investing in a network monitoring tool should mean complete visibility and faster troubleshooting. But what happens when an unexpected outage occurs and your expensive tool misses the warning signs? The result: hours of downtime, frustrated employees, and lost business productivity. Many organizations face this challenge, realizing that even pre...

How well-designed automations lead to efficient orchestration in AWS

This blog explores how automation-driven orchestration leads to seamless cloud operations and improves efficiency in AWS environments.

Automation in AWS involves executing tasks without manual intervention, such as scaling Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) instances, running Lambda functions, or triggering Amazon CloudWatch a...


Kubernetes made simple: A beginner’s guide to managing containers

As applications become more complex, managing containers efficiently is key to scaling and maintaining performance. Kubernetes (also known as K8s) automates this process, making it easier to handle scaling, failures, and uptime. If you're new to Kubernetes, understanding the platform and how it's used is essential for managing your applicat...

How APM and synthetic monitoring work together for better performance

Lags are not just an inconvenience—they lead to lost revenue and frustrated users. To prevent this, organizations turn to application performance monitoring (APM) and synthetic monitoring to maintain peak application performance.

In this blog, we will explore why APM and synthetic monitoring work better together and how ...


Diagnosing ActiveMQ broker performance issues with log analysis

Apache ActiveMQ is a widely used message broker that enables seamless communication between distributed applications. However, as the volume of messages increases, performance bottlenecks can arise, leading to slow message processing, high latency, broker crashes, and out of memory (OOM) errors. One of the most critical issues affecting ...

How to leverage AI to enhance network monitoring in retail: A CXO's guide

The retail industry has evolved into a mix of physical stores, e-commerce, digital payments, and omnichannel interactions. Now, GenAI has been added to this mix, which changes how people shop, how retailers operate, and how employees work. While this shift creates opportunities for retailers of all sizes, it also presents serious challenges in m...

Diagnosing and resolving the 500 internal server error with Apache and Tomcat logs

To diagnose 500 errors effectively, it’s essential to understand the role of each log type:

Apache access logs record all incoming requests to the web server. They provide information such as the:


Why a mobile app is the key to better incident communication

The panic of an outage: A familiar story It's 3am, and your critical systems just went down. Customers are flooding your support team with questions, your team is scrambling to investigate, and leadership wants answers—now. You check your inbox for incident updates, but the latest email came 15 minutes ago. Meanwhile, your status page needs an u...

Top reasons why businesses lose trust after acquisition and how you can be smart

​ Did you wake up to the news that your favorite tool was acquired? You probably got used to the tool's intuitive interface, cost-effectiveness, and feature set, which aligned perfectly with your day-to-day requirements. Your disappointment doesn't end here. It's just the beginning of a series of potential negative consequences of acquisitions. ...

Managing resource contention in Google App Engine: Best practices for optimal performance

Are your App Engine applications suffering from unanticipated lags?  You’ve fine-tuned your Google App Engine deployment, but users still report occasional lags, increased latency, or unexpected errors. Could resource contention be the hidden culprit? Resource contention is a catalyst for performance lags when multiple applications, instanc...

Challenges in designing AWS architecture

Designing AWS architecture is a complex task. It requires careful planning; a deep understanding of cloud services; and the ability to balance performance, cost, security, and scalability. As organizations migrate to the cloud or expand their existing cloud infrastructure, they often face several challenges that can impact the success of their a...

Simplifying Kubernetes architecture for DevOps

Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for managing containerized applications, but its architecture can seem complex to DevOps teams. Let’s break it down into simple terms and explore how tools like Site24x7 can simplify the process of designing and monitoring Kubernetes architecture. Understanding Kubernetes architecture At its core, Kuberne...

Crafting effective cloud architecture diagrams: A comprehensive guide

Cloud architecture diagrams play a crucial role in communication, planning, and execution within the realm of cloud computing. They provide a visual depiction of the infrastructure, highlighting the interconnections between different components and their collaborative functionality. In this guide, we will delve into the five fundamental factors ...

The top 5 network security threats every CIO should know in 2025

With ransomware attacks on the rise, network misconfigurations are often the weak link that hackers exploit to gain unauthorized access. How secure are your network's configuration settings? Could a small oversight in your firewall or router settings leave your entire network exposed?

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How to visualize user journeys with Site24x7 to spot opportunities to improve the UX

Before judging anyone, walk a mile in their shoes. This is a great idiom that emphasizes the importance of experiencing what your customers experience when you offer a service. With empathy, IT product owners can ensure that their operations take into account user journeys to be responsive and responsible.  The first step in understanding u...

Resolving Redis connection issues with comprehensive log review

Redis is a highly efficient, versatile in-memory data store that is commonly utilized in modern applications. However, like any technology, it is not without its challenges, particularly when it comes to managing connections. By systematically reviewing Redis logs, you can diagnose and resolve these problems effectively. This blog provides an ov...

Resolving Kafka consumer lag with detailed consumer logs for faster processing

Latency refers to the time delay between when a message is produced and when it is consumed. As this delay increases, Kafka consumer lag occurs. The slower messages are processed, the greater the consumer lag in your Kafka data stream, impacting overall performance.

Kafka consumer lag occurs when a consumer falls behind in processing me...


Strategic IP address management (IPAM): A must-have solution for high volume networks

Managing enterprise IT infrastructure isn’t just about staying afloat—it’s about being one step ahead with strategic IP address management in modern enterprise IT. Each day, IT teams grapple with network sprawl, security challenges, and the constant demand for scalability. But here’s a question: how does your enterprise manage its IP address spa...