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Monitoring single page apps
With single page apps, checking whether the page is served by the server is not really sufficient to ensure a customer sees anything. However, with a little extra effort you can still monitor these pages effectively. I recommend three different … Continue reading
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Month by month uptime report
Observu has long enabled you to view uptime over past 24 hours, 30 days and year. As well as view day-by-day uptime over the past week, month, quarter or year. However we were missing a month-by-month report of uptime to … Continue reading
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Introducing the Observu App
Last week we release the first version of the Observu App. The app lists current and most recent incidents for a quick status check. If there is anything actionable, those items will be prioritised on the home screen. Push Notifications … Continue reading
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5 reasons your developers need to do first-line support
As a developer, I don’t particularly enjoy customer support. Questions are either about things that are obvious (or should have been) or about things that I don’t have a clue about either and need a lot of investigation. Some customers … Continue reading
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Monitoring private websites and keeping credentials secure
Today I encountered this question on stackoverflow. It asks about monitoring tools to run locally because they cannot share credentials with third parties. (like Observu) This comes with the disadvantage of now having to take care of the reliablity of … Continue reading
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How to resolve ‘Got error 28 from storage engine’
A common cause of website and webservice failure is running out of disk space. Either the webserver is no longer able to write to it’s log files and fails completely (resulting in an error page or no connection at all) … Continue reading
Observu from idea ’til launch
At the end of 2010 we decided that our development efforts were too fragmented and we needed to focus. We had dozens of websites, each either needing a lot of work or were not really future proof. We decided to … Continue reading
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Monitoring A Website In The Cloud
Observu has been designed from the ground up to deal with the monitoring reality of running your website or application in the cloud. By allowing servers to share the exact same configuration on the server and not requiring them to … Continue reading
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Monitoring Data From Online Sources and APIs
Observu allows you to check availability on webpages and APIs and test them for presence of certain text. However, web pages and APIs can provide a wealth of information that is also interesting to track. Maybe your forum lists the … Continue reading
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Respond faster to Internal Server Errors
When a web page shows you an “Internal Server Error”, the webserver also returns a 500 status code. It means there is something wrong on the website itself. The user requested a proper URL, but something on the server makes … Continue reading
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