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Real user monitoring vs. synthetic monitoring: Understanding best practices

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As businesses compete for customer loyalty, it’s critical to understand the difference between real-user monitoring and synthetic user monitoring. However, not all user monitoring systems are created equal. What is real user monitoring? Real-time monitoring of user application and service interactions.

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Crucial Redis Monitoring Metrics You Must Watch

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You will need to know which monitoring metrics for Redis to watch and a tool to monitor these critical server metrics to ensure its health. This blog post lists the important database metrics to monitor. Effective monitoring of key performance indicators plays a crucial role in maintaining this optimal speed of operation.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

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Instead, they can ensure that services comport with the pre-established benchmarks. In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. To measure availability, we can rely on an HTTP monitor from Dynatrace Synthetic Monitoring.

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2023 Black Friday and Cyber Monday retail and e-commerce IT performance observations

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What was once an onslaught of consumer traffic between Black Friday and Cyber Monday has turned into a weeklong event, with most retailers offering deals well ahead of Black Friday. Social media was relatively quiet, and as always, the Dynatrace Insights team was benchmarking key retailer home pages from mobile and desktop perspectives.

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Five-nines availability: Always-on infrastructure delivers system availability during the holidays’ peak loads

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For retail organizations, peak traffic can be a mixed blessing. While high-volume traffic often boosts sales, it can also compromise uptimes. Five-nines availability: The ultimate benchmark of system availability. Integrate infrastructure monitoring on a single AIOps platform. But is five nines availability attainable?

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Dynatrace Application Security detects and blocks attacks automatically in real-time

Dynatrace

WAFs protect the network perimeter and monitor, filter, or block HTTP traffic. Compared to intrusion detection systems (IDS/IPS), WAFs are focused on the application traffic. RASP solutions sit in or near applications and analyze application behavior and traffic.

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Protect your organization against zero-day vulnerabilities

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Typically, organizations might experience abnormal scanning activity or an unexpected traffic influx that is coming from one specific client. Techniques such as statistics-based monitoring and behavior-based monitoring are also possible. Zero-day attacks can manifest in various subtle forms and are often difficult to detect.

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