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                Announcing SolarWinds Observability SaaS
                
                
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                            SolarWinds Observability SaaS now offers synthetic transaction monitoring                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Powerful transaction monitoring now complements the availability and real user monitoring (RUM) capabilities in SolarWinds Observability SaaS (formerly known as SolarWinds Observability) to provide richer Digital Experience Monitoring. With synthetic transaction and website availability monitoring, you can automate the testing of complicated website flows to identify broken links, latency, and availability issues before your users […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Exit Rate vs Bounce Rate – Which One You Should Improve and Why                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Tracking your website’s exit and bounce rates will give you insight into how your audience engages with your website and the user experience they receive. This information will enable you to make data-driven decisions on performance-related improvements, ensuring your website functions at its optimal capacity. In this article, we explain exactly what exit rates and […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Introduction to Observability                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    These days, systems and applications evolve at a rapid pace. This makes analyzing the internal performance of applications complex. Observability emerges as a path to efficient and effective operational insights. Imagine a team of doctors monitoring a patient’s vitals—heart rate, temperature, blood pressure. These readings, combined with observation of symptoms, paint a picture of the […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Webpages Are Getting Larger Every Year, and Here’s Why it Matters                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Last updated: February 29, 2024 Average size of a webpage matters because it correlates with how fast users get to your content. People today have grown to expect good performance from the web. If your website takes more than 2.5 seconds to load, your users will probably never return to you again.  Further, the more […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            A Beginner’s Guide to Using CDNs                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Last updated: February 28, 2024 Websites have become larger and more complex over the past few years, and users expect them to load instantaneously, even on mobile devices. The smallest performance drops can have big effects; just a 100ms decrease in page load time can drop conversions by 7%. With competitors just a click away, organizations […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            The Five Most Common HTTP Errors According to Google                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    
Sometimes when you try to visit a web page, you’re met with an HTTP error message. It’s a message from the web server that something went wrong. In some cases it could be a mistake you made, but often it’s the site’s fault. Now, you might wonder, which are the most common HTTP errors that people encounter when they surf the Web? That is the question we’ll answer in this article.

                
                            
                    
                        
                            Page Load Time vs. Response Time – What Is the Difference?                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Last updated: February 28, 2024 Page load time and response time are key metrics to monitor, and they can give you an in-depth understanding of how your website is performing. However, the difference between page load time and response time isn’t immediately obvious, and neither are the benefits of tracking them independently.  
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Can gzip Compression Really Improve Web Performance?                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Last updated: February 26, 2024 The size of the web is slowly growing. Over the past decade, the average webpage weight grew by 356%, from about 484 KB to 2.205 MB. Considering 800 KB was the average size of a website in 2012, that’s an enormous difference. While it’s true that the global average internet […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Troubleshooting End-User Issues With a DEM Tool                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    In the last decade, businesses have made massive investments in the digital economy with the goal of increasing operational efficiency and improving their customer or end-user experience. However, it isn’t rare for businesses to incur losses due to poor page load speed, failed transactions, or website errors. This is why businesses need to track end-user […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Exploring the Software Behind Facebook, the World’s Largest Social Media Site                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    At the scale that Facebook operates, a lot of traditional approaches to serving web content break down or simply aren’t practical. The challenge for Facebook’s engineers has been to keep the site up and running smoothly in spite of handling over two billion active users. This article takes a look at some of the software and techniques they use to accomplish that.
                
                            
                    
                        
                            The Developer Obsession With Code Names – 200+ Interesting Examples                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Code names can be about secrecy, but when it comes to software development, it’s usually not so much about secrecy as it is about the convenience of having a name for a specific version of the software. It can be very practical to have a unique identifier for a project to get everyone on the […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Web API Monitoring Explained: A Helpful Introductory Guide                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    An API, application programming interface, is a collection of tools, protocols, and subroutines that can be used when building software programs or applications. APIs makes software development easier by providing reusable components and a set of clearly defined communication protocols. Recently APIs have come to mean web services, but there are also APIs for software […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            User Experience for Observability                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Modern software applications involve multiple layers of code and services, working together to meet increasingly demanding user requirements. To achieve this, systems became distributed, providing improved scalability, fault tolerance, and complexity. However, this innovation brought new challenges to basic troubleshooting and performance monitoring to maintain the health of systems. It’s for these reasons that observability […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Announcing SolarWinds Observability SaaS                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    At SolarWinds, we’re constantly thinking ahead to develop observability solutions that evolve with you and that abstract application and IT complexity so that you can deliver an exceptional digital experience for your business.  And today, we’re excited to announce – SolarWinds Observability SaaS (formerly known as SolarWinds Observability) is here!  SolarWinds Observability SaaS (formerly known […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            The Roblox Outage                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Just before Halloween 2021, Roblox engineers experienced a horror story: a service outage that also took down critical monitoring systems. It seemed like the issue was a hardware problem, but it wasn’t. Users were frustrated, and the clock was ticking. After three full days of downtime, service was finally restored on Halloween day.
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Internet Availability Threats Following the Russian invasion of Ukraine                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks impacting availability have been rising. The attacks aren’t only affecting Russia and Ukraine either. Public and private organizations in multiple industries have been impacted, and several nations—including the U.S. and U.K.—have issued warnings about cyberthreats from Russia.
                
                            
                    
                        
                            User Monitoring on Heroku-Based Apps                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    Introduction In today’s fast-paced business environment, tech startups are on the rise. Several small- and medium-scale businesses are competing with established companies to showcase their unique digital services. Heroku is a favorite among these businesses and their development teams, as its PaaS provides a ready-to-serve platform for application setup. Developers can deploy the platform easily […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Using SLOs to Increase Software Reliability                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    The partnership between Nobl9 and SolarWinds® Pingdom® is the bridge between business and technology everyone’s been waiting for. What Is Nobl9? Nobl9 is a software reliability platform that works with DevOps practitioners, reliability engineers, and now SolarWinds to make you feel more confident in the dependability of your products. By using service-level objectives (SLOs), Nobl9 […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            AWS US-EAST-1 Outage… Again                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    AWS is a comprehensive, evolving cloud computing program built to provide IT infrastructure for businesses, and the program has an active user base of roughly 1,000,000 customers. With the massive responsibility of providing services for such a large customer base, it’s important for their services to be reliable and trustworthy. Unfortunately, we recently saw a […]
                
                            
                    
                        
                            Financial Impact of an Outage                        
                    
                    
                                                    
                    
                    In October 2021, the world’s largest social media platform suffered a massive worldwide outage affecting billions of customers. Facebook has a monthly active user base of 2.8 billion users, which increases to 3.5 billion when you include its subsidiaries such as Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus. The platform succumbed to a “Gigalapse,” which happens when a […]
                
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