According to the 2024 Statista report on global crucial data center IT outages from 2020-2023 , power disruptions have become the leading cause of outages, rising from 37% in 2020 to 52% in 2023. This shift highlights an increasing vulnerability in infrastructure reliability, making proactive server monitoring more critical than eve...

Today, eBPF is a powerful, widely accepted technology that operates at the kernel level of the operating system. It enables real-time, low-overhead monitoring of system calls, network traffic, and resource usage across applications and containerized deployments. Celebrated system performance expert and author Brendan Gregg once quipped that &...

This blog dives into the common causes of high latency in EC2 instances. You'll learn how to diagnose high latency and get practical fixes to restore speed.

Latency in your EC2 instances can arise from multiple sources and requires precise identification to resolve it effectively.

When a node is low on resources—as in CPU, memory, or storage—a workload may suffer from failures, degraded performance, and eviction.

If you want your cluster to run smoothly, it's time to learn how to identify the root causes of your node resource exhaustion and take proactive steps to mitigate them before something g...

SLOs also mark the maximum error amount or period a system is allowed to experience within a timeframe to be judged as acceptable. Akin to a financial budget, an error budget expresses the things gone wrong (errors) as a percentage of the total time or requests that transpire in a timeframe: for example, 1% of monthly requ...

Picture a busy Monday morning. You are working on leftover projects from the previous week, and assuming everything is fine with your applications as you had not received support tickets during the weekend. All of a sudden, during the middle of the day, you get a flood of reports from users who complain about slow response in your application...

Do you ever look at the list of metrics you monitor and feel overwhelmed? That is a nice problem to have instead of needing to tweak your server performance KPIs because your server monitoring tool does not monitor them. With Site24x7's server monitoring suite, it is easy to be spoiled for choice when it comes to which metric to mon...

In this blog, we'll explore the best practices for monitoring web servers such Apache, NGINX, IIS, Tomcat, and more.

Starting with the basics, it's important to track uptime to check if your server is even online. Be sure to check response time, too, as this directly contributes to a user’s first impression—slow lo...