Website Monitoring

Did you unconsciously open Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp several times throughout the day on Monday, only to get a “Couldn’t refresh feed” message? Did you try again every 20 or so minutes? Did you maybe even restart your phone, not once thinking websites as large as Facebook could possibly go down and believing it must

Over the past few months, I’ve been redesigning and writing Scopify’s SSL monitoring feature from Node to Go. This blog post describes one of the more subtle challenges we came across to help you master it if you find yourself with it too! Writing a Go client that fetches an SSL certificate isn’t a new

You might have seen the name “Let’s Encrypt” across the internet for the past week and it’s no surprise why that is. As one of the most-used and well-known HTTPS certificate providers (having issued billions since its inception), it’s almost unheard of that a company of such would allow its root certificate to expire. If

How a software product feels is easy to overlook, but how the product works matters just as much, if not more. Results from digital experience monitoring point to how apps feel as the key determinant of their success. “That’s how it is with people. Nobody cares how it works as long as it works.” This

We’ve all been there. when you visit a website and you get hit with a three-digit number SMACK in the face. For most, those 3 little numbers mean very little, but it’s definitely worth knowing the most common error codes so you can at least know if your favourite website is down forever, or will

You may or may not have heard of Google Core Web Vitals, but the importance of getting them right for your website is like Everest for website owners right now. So what are the Core Web Vitals and what should you do to make sure my website meets them?  Google Core Web Vitals consist of

There are plenty of ways to gain insights on website availability and performance, from setting up complex monitoring agents to browsing through real-time logs. Few services are as straightforward and robust as SolarWinds®Scopify®. Scopify lets you set up checks for your website including uptime, page speed, and user interactions. It then collates the results in

If you are reading this, you are probably a Web Developer and, on that assumption, I’m going to go out on a limb and guess you’ve heard about Visual Studio Code by now, you may even be currently using it for your development work.  Here is a list of 10 must-have Visual Studio Code extensions

Making your customers happy is essential in any industry, but it’s imperative for online businesses because the competition is only a few clicks away. If you want your customers to be satisfied, providing them a great user experience is essential. This is easier said than done, however. There are many approaches for organizations wanting to