Monitor TLS/SSL: Certificates, Ciphers, Expiration and Spoofing
Exoprise recently released two new CloudReady sensors for monitoring Transport Layer Security (TLS), aka Secure Sockets Layer (SSL), connections end-to-end. TLS/SSL is the foundation for just about every web request…
How to Test and Monitor Azure Blob or Amazon S3 Performance
Exoprise recently released new storage sensors for end-to-end monitoring and testing of Azure Blob or Amazon S3. These sensors, once deployed against a container, enable continuous monitoring of access performance,…
Monitoring SaaS Applications for Network Administrators
Software as a Service (SaaS) is a mainstream way of bringing enterprise applications to hundreds of thousands of application users at a stable cost. Rather than loading client software on…
Best Practices for Monitoring Salesforce
Salesforce.com is an essential mission-critical application for many enterprises. Because it is only delivered through the cloud, its performance is highly dependent upon where it is being served from, accessed…
Office 365 Network Onboarding Tool From Microsoft
Microsoft recently released a Proof of Concept (POC) for a new tool, the Office 365 Network Onboarding tool, that shows you the network latency to the nearest Office 365 service…
CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #4
This is the fourth and final article of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. With a better understanding of the various widgets available, you can build custom dashboards…
Office 365 Suffers Multiple Outages for Start of 2019
Unfortunately, Microsoft and Office 365 suffered their second major outage of the year and this one was even bigger than the first. We say "unfortunately" because even though our business…
Types of DNS Attacks and How Application Monitoring Can Help
DNS, the Domain Name Service, is the Internet service that translates IP addresses into hostnames, and visa versa. It enables you to type www.exoprise.com in a browser, or send an…
Types of DDoS Attacks and How They Slow Your SaaS Services
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) is one of the most insidious types of digital attacks that can cause cloud outages. It is typically directed at a specific target, and if…
Top Microsoft Office 365 Outages of 2018
Microsoft is making it both convenient and cost-effective to use the SaaS cloud-based Office 365 and Azure cloud services rather than a locally hosted Office, SharePoint and their respective on-premises…
Why Shift-Right is Essential for SaaS Applications
SaaS DevOps Needs to Include Post Deployment Monitoring To many IT software teams, the mantra currently fashionable for team practice is “shift-left.” That refers to moving certain activities, such as…
CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #3
This is the third part in a four part series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. The first part covered basics like Overviews, Refresh, and Layout settings. The second part…
Testing Exchange OAuth Access and Azure AD
Exoprise recently added support for OAuth (OAuth 2.0 to be exact) credentials to the core Exchange Online testing sensor. This capability has been requested in the past and with this…
CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #2
This is the second part of a series on the CloudReady dashboards and visualizations. The first part covered basics like Overviews, Refresh, and Layout settings. In this second part, we'll…
Microsoft Ignite Announcements Recap
The Exoprise team is having a great show at Microsoft Ignite in Orlando. We've launched a new product and a number of new features that we're demonstrating, catching up with…
Skype Monitoring: Conferences, Video – We Heard You Loud & Clear!
For as long as we've had Skype Audio and Message monitoring sensors, customers have said "Where's the Skype Conferencing Sensor?" or "Where's the video, I want the video!". We understand…
The Best Office 365 Monitoring Now With Office 365 Reporting
Exoprise, the leader in Office 365 end-to-end monitoring, recently launched built-in reporting for Office 365. Now, the best cloud monitoring solutions includes usage, audit, activity, threat and health reporting too.…
Service Watch – Real User Monitoring for Office 365, SaaS Apps
Introducing Exoprise Service Watch™ Exoprise has long dedicated itself to excellence when it comes to synthetic (active) monitoring for cloud services like Office 365. But sometimes customers want to monitor…
Exoprise to Showcase New Crowd-Powered Visibility Solutions at Microsoft Ignite 2018
Exoprise previews new capabilities for CloudReady, its leading Microsoft Office 365 Management Platform including: Service Watch Real User Monitoring (RUM), Microsoft Teams & Skype real-time quality monitoring and fully integrated…
What Happened with Microsoft’s Outage Last Week?
On the morning of September 4th, 2018 a number of customers experienced sign-in problems related to an outage for Azure, Azure AD and, in turn, Office 365. The issue was…
CloudReady Dashboards Tips & Tricks Part #1
CloudReady dashboards enable a great degree of customization, a wide array of widgets, and the ability to build visualizations for monitoring the health, availability, and performance of all of your…
CloudReady Single Sign-On SAML Integration
Exoprise recently released support for Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML) 2.0 integration to enable CloudReady Single Sign-On (SSO) for user access to CloudReady. Exoprise always supported testing and monitoring web-based…
CloudReady and Mini PCs – The Perfect Combination
Every day customers start CloudReady trials in under 5 minutes for immediate value with our cloud-based network benchmarking. When they decide to purchase for monitoring critical SaaS apps continuously, the…
RemoteApp and RDS Synthetic Login Monitoring
Since the release of the CloudReady RDP sensor for synthetically testing and signing into full VDI and Remote Desktop sessions, Exoprise has had numerous requests for RemoteApp support within Remote…
Guest Post: Skype for Business Network Assessment With CloudReady
This is a featured guest post by Jason Anderson with Intellinet. Intellinet is a trusted Exoprise Partner.