New features and enhancements in Site24x7
Schedule maintenance for your monitors for biweekly, triweekly, last week of the month, or yearly time slots apart from the existing time options. You can ensure overall uptime and avoid alert noise creation by planning your maintenance in advance.
The following are some of the new .NET agent features:
Get a detailed overview of the data sources, schema types, and cache information of your monitored resources by integrating your Site24x7 account with AWS AppSync.
You can now view the Server Monitor in the respective EC2 Instance as well, after the Server Monitor - EC2 Instance integration by configuring the Display Server Monitor After Integration option.
Obtain better visibility into your MySQL database servers with hundreds of performance metrics collected on MySQL connections, query cache items, handlers, read-writes, MyISAM key cache, sorts, data transferred, tables, replications, and InnoDB. You can also receive alerts each time there is a failover between master and slave servers with the new failover monitoring.
Stay on top of your Apache servers with more performance metrics like Processes, Connections Async, Load, and Total Connections among others. Explore the enhanced UI, and avoid Apache performance issues.
Track the various background tasks performed by the application, such as those associated with maintenance, schedulers, and so on.
Obtain better visibility and accountability into your network device configurations and changes using Site24x7's Network configuration manager (NCM). You can schedule backups, track changes, as well as compare and restore configurations with it. Also, you can receive alerts for configurations changes, generate configuration reports, and ensure security and compliance.
Analyze your resource availability and view the number of health events based on categories like region, service, and event type with Site24x7's AWS Health integration. Receive notifications for health events that may affect your AWS resources and troubleshoot any issues.
Support for Axios modules is available in Node.js agents v2.5.0 and above.
Keep track of your pending Security, Critical, Feature Pack, Tools, and Application updates, as well as other information of your Windows server monitors, with the recently added Windows Update monitor report.
Facilitate uninterrupted team collaboration by preventing Microsoft 365 product license expiration. Monitor critical metrics, receive alerts, and renew your licenses well in advance.
You can now effortlessly navigate to your S3 Object and S3 Folder directly from S3 Bucket in your Site24x7- S3 integrated account. Run periodic checks on your critical S3 object URL endpoints and S3 folders with S3 Objects and S3 Folder monitoring features.
Save your Azure cloud bills and gain effective chargebacks in a multi-cloud setup by grouping and understanding cloud costs. Control your cloud usage and get the most out of it with CloudSpend Azure.
Mark critical business transactions as key transactions. This allows you to quickly assess the performance of key transactions without having to search through a pool of web transactions.
Configure to recieve alerts, to be informed when a route table is modified or disassociated for your AWS Transit Gateway attachment.
Monitor and optimize the performance of your Python applications with the Site24x7 APM Insight Python agent.
Configure threshold values for all the applicable metrics and choose to mute inactive alerts in the threshold form for Elasticsearch nodes.
Enable or disable the route 53 record set with the Route 53 Hosted Zone Record Set checkbox to easily discover and manage services for your integrated AWS account.
Manage the Log Types, Log Profiles, Alerts, and Saved Searches across all your customer accounts with your Site24x7 MSP account. If multiple customers require the same Log Type and Log Profile, they can now be configured in the MSP account.
Associate Log Profiles using the Configuration Rules while adding a server monitor. Thus, the logs will be collected automatically for the associated Log Types.
Monitor the .NET and .NET Core applications that are running in Windows Docker containers
Determine how to optimize your resources for a particular operation or workload with Capacity Planning. You can now view and track the capacity utilization of your resources based on metrics like CPU, memory, and storage, and monitor the health and status of your resources grouped under a Capacity Planning monitor.
Monitor the availability of your Cisco Meraki switches, wireless devices, cameras, and security appliances using REST APIs along with the SNMP-based monitoring option that's currently available. Track your security appliances' response times and packet losses, configure thresholds, receive alerts, and stay on top of your Cisco Meraki devices.
Monitor your Amazon S3 virtual folders with Site24x7's Amazon S3 folder monitoring feature. You can now track metric data every minute for up to 24 hours, and collect storage and object modification metrics, object counts, and folder counts at the individual folder level.
With the advanced enhancements, you can now:
Analyze the key performance metrics such as total storage, memory and CPU utilization, and information about vSphere clusters and Distributed Resource Schedulers in the VMware environment. Get detailed insights into VMware clusters and detect issues.
You can filter unwanted .NET Core applications (running as standalone processes or as Windows services) from being monitored by Site24x7 APM Insight and use your license effectively.
You can search the respective logs quickly by providing relative time factors such as days, hours, or minutes in the date picker. You can easily view the results by providing the data in the required format.
Gain real-time observability into your Lambda Functions URL with Site24x7-Lambda integration. You can now create and execute a Lambda Function URL with a public endpoint, automate serverless workflows, and monitor your URL's Request Count, Latency and 4xx or 5xx errors if any, with Site24x7.
Exclude the HTTP error codes from monitoring to reduce noise in your Node.js monitoring environment.
Analyze the capacity of your Amazon AppStream 2.0 using different performance metrics. With analysis at the fleet, image, and stack levels, gain better control over your remote access applications.
AWSAutomate start, stop, and force a cluster failover actions for your Amazon DocumentDB clusters. You can also reboot your DocumentDB instance using IT Automation.
While configuring an FTP Transfer monitor, you can now:
View the custom tags created in your environment with Site24x7. It directly identifies, fetches, and syncs the tags associated with the device of the VMware user and is displayed in the VMware module across ESX/ ESXi hosts, virtual machines, and datastores. Site24x7 also updates the tags regularly and makes it easy for VMware users to handle.
Generate Bottom N reports for the bottom 10/25/50/100 of your monitored resources. These reports can help you view and analyze the performance of your least performing resources.
The following are some of the new PHP agent features:
You can now monitor the performance of all individual applications running on the same app server separately using the multi-monitor configuration, allowing you to assess your application performance at a granular level.
Monitor the performance of Jenkins servers, all jobs, specific jobs, Java VMs, and Jenkins web access from one console using the Jenkins monitoring plugin. Analyze various build metrics, and help DevOps teams obtain better visibility into the Jenkins environment.
Integrate your CloudSpend account with Site24x7 to:
You can now check your Top Slow PHP Scripts, Top Error Occurring Modules, and Exceptions in your Django and Wildfly applications quickly with AppLogs. You will also receive customized alerts and view different metrics in an intuitive dashboard.
Integrate your Site24x7 account with Zoho Directory to make org-level administration easy, to auto-confirm user invites, sync users from Active Directory to Site24x7 account, or set org-level security configurations.
Obtain better visibility into your EC2 instances by monitoring in-depth metrics. Collect detailed metrics for your Windows and Linux servers by integrating with the CloudWatch agent.
Sort the required traces by defining multiple custom search criteria and apply actions to your filtered traces with the click of a button.
Integrate your Site24x7 account with Zoho Desk to convert any Down, Trouble, or Critical alerts from Site24x7 into tickets in the Zoho Desk portal. Upon incident resolution in Site24x7, the tickets will be automatically closed in the Zoho Desk portal.
Stay on top of your Amazon API Gateway routes by monitoring them at the HTTP and WebSocket levels in addition to monitoring at the REST API level. With metrics like 4XX errors, 5XX errors, total number of API requests, latency, and data processed at the HTTP level, and connection count, message count, integration errors, client errors, execution errors, and integration latency at the WebSocket level, you can easily analyze the route's performance and track it to different stages.
Choose the service quotas you want to manage by creating Metric Profiles. This way, you can oversee and generate a report for the preferred service quotas.
Use the new Account Settings option in the CloudSpend Admin tab to customize your reports as per your preference. You can also integrate your CloudSpend account with Site24x7 to automate actions, use the supported third-party integrations, and manage budget notifications in Site24x7 Alarms.
The server metrics tab now includes metrics such as CPU, memory, disk from .NET, and .NET core application server monitors hosted in the cloud environment.
You can now record web transactions for your tablets and mobile devices in addition to desktop devices. This feature is now available for both Web Page Speed and Web Transaction (Browser) monitors. With a simple resolution change at the browser level, Site24x7 starts recording web transactions for different devices.
Predict the future performance of over 30 services and make capacity planning and scaling decisions. These forecasts are now available for services like Amazon FSx, Amazon Elasticsearch, AWS Lambda@Edge, and AWS Gateway Load Balancer.
Search your resources in the Site24x7 web client to view them or to perform selected actions with the search bar. You can use quick, command-based, or query-based searches to filter resources or tabs.
Log lines may not always have both the time and date field values. You can now collect such logs with simple configurations that fetch the date and time based on the agent-installed machine's time.
The .NET core in Linux now supports standalone applications.
Track custom methods or frameworks in your application and monitor their performance with the .NET core agent from NuGet, especially in console and Windows service applications built with .NET core.
Measure the user experience while accessing a webpage with the help of modern user-centric metrics developed by Google called Web Vitals.
Analyze user-specific and region-specific issues and uncover the root cause by monitoring the experience based on the user ID, browser, device type, nation, and domain using User Sessions.
Analyze your website performance by filtering it based on various dimensions, including browsers, devices, countries, users, domains, and internet service providers (ISPs). This helps you to identify granular details that impact your website performance and the end-user experience.
View the graphical representation of application's metrics such as Apdex, Response Time, Pageviews, and Error for all countries across the globe under the geography tab.
You can now view the Service Health data collection in your Microsoft 365 monitor by granting additional Application permissions to Microsoft Graph API. Since the existing API deprecated, Microsoft Office 365 Service Communications API has been migrated to Microsoft Graph API.
Site24x7's parent company Zoho Corporation is listed as an Advanced Partner for Lambda solutions in AWS. With this partnership, you can also contribute to the APN blog along with us and share your experience using Site24x7 to solve problems on AWS.
You can now receive AppLogs Alerts via third-party tools of your choice in addition to the SMS, email, and voice call alerts that Site24x7 generates. With this support, AppLogs Log Types will be treated as individual monitors with options to configure Maintenance and IT Automation now enabled.
Ensure operational management by monitoring the managed instances of AWS Systems Manager using Site24x7.
Integrate Site24x7 with Zoho Cliq to collaborate with team members and receive instant alerts on status changes via Zoho Cliq channels.
Obtain information related to core web vitals like first contentful paint(FCP), largest contentful paint(LCP), and cumulative layout shift(CLS).
Identify the vulnerable log4j version in your application and get alerted via the web client using our APM agent.
Start monitoring applications with MFA/TOTP using Site24x7 web transaction recorder.
We've now extended the support of Bulk Action from 1k monitors to 10k monitors. You can now perform operations like Append, Overwrite, or Remove for tags, monitor groups, IT Automation, and user alert groups.
Get a complete picture of your application's performance along with the metrics of the connected servers by integrating the server monitors with your application.
Get a detailed picture of your application's performance along with the metrics of the linked servers by navigating to the Server Metrics tab on the APM page.
Automate Thread Dump and Heap Dump execution to minimize manual intervention and improve application and server performance
Configure to receive alerts to be informed of outages at AWS' end. You can also choose to monitor for a predefined number of polls before receiving alert notifications.
View the service quotas for all resources associated with your AWS services, and manage them directly from the Site24x7 web client. You can request AWS to increase your quota to a desired value. You can also configure thresholds to be notified when you're nearing your quota.
Enable masking and hashing to hide sensitive data from your logs before sending them to Site24x7. Provide the expressions as a capture group in the regex and start protecting your sensitive data.
Check your application's outage report on the respective APM details page itself.
You can visualize, analyze, and troubleshoot your monitor's outages for a selected time range using the Events Timeline widget displayed in the APM's Overview tab.
HTTP request headers are now captured by the agent.
Obtain a bird's eye view of all the information related to your budgets.
Obtain details of the modifications made to your resources and view the configuration associated with your resources before the modification. These options will be available to all updates made after November 29, 2021. Audit Logs for MSP customers will also have these details.
You can now send GraphQL queries to obtain desired response from the GraphQL based API service. Both Rest API and Rest API Transaction monitor types support GraphQL.
Going a step beyond the AWS Guidance Report, which provides suggestions to cut costs and use your resources optimally, Site24x7 has introduced Instance Type recommendations.
Monitor your Gateway Load Balancer using critical performance metrics and ensure secure traffic distribution.
Collect log events from incident management platforms like Opsgenie and PagerDuty and monitor incidents and escalations from different sources. Keep track of the alerts generated over time, top incidents, alerts closed, and more from an exclusive dashboard.
Obtain new recommendations for services like Amazon EC2, IAM, Neptune, CloudTrail, Elasticache, Amazon MQ, and Document DB that can help you manage over-utilization, underutilization, and optimize the usage. Site24x7 now provides 185 recommendations for different AWS services.
For your key monitored services, view a list of all the associated resources that are monitored. From the Monitored Resources tab, you can:
Get monthly, quarterly, or yearly historical data related to your budget based on the configured period type using the History section. Use the amount spent during that period (Usage Value), budgeted value, forecasted value, deviation from the budgeted amount, the pattern of spending, budget breaches, and the fluctuations from the budgeted amount to plan.
Use Forecast (Month) to set the budgets based on the values obtained from the forecast predictions. This can help to ensure that the budget isn't exceeding or dropping below the forecasted amount for the month.
Use the Regular Expression (regex) pattern in the Answer Validation section for DNS monitors. You can specify the regex in the following format: ${
You can now generate Poll Now reports to gain insights on the performance- and availability-related metrics of your monitors from all configured locations. Poll Now report is supported for Website, Ping, REST API, and Web Page Speed Browser monitors.
You can now change the key transaction's display name.
Mobile APM support extended for HTTP calls, Screen tracking, User session tracking, Filterable performance, and React native applications.
Performance optimization - Agent load on application CPU is optimized. Learn more.
The Database name is displayed under Traces.
Upload the client certificate (as a PKCS#12 file) for transactions requiring authentication. A client certificate or mTLS helps verify parties at both ends of a transaction.
Read/Write permission for APM agent configuration file is set only for the current user running the app server.
Read/Write permission for APM agent configuration file is set only for the current user and administrators.
HTTP query parameters are now captured by the agent.
Analyze your website performance by filtering it based on various dimensions, including browsers, devices, countries, users, domains, and internet service providers (ISPs).
New custom APIs like Custom User ID, Capture JS errors, End Current Session, Max session timeout duration, and more have been added.
User Sessions helps to understand the user experience of your website visitors by analyzing the experience based on the user ID, browser, device type, country, and domain. This allows you to effectively investigate user-specific or region-specific issues and find the root cause.
Ensure your servers are up-to-date with all the latest Windows updates for optimal performance.
You can now export your monitors along with their configurations as zipped CSV files. Also, download scheduled maintenance-related configurations, audit logs, operations dashboard related data, configuration rule logs, and outage reports in CSV format.
Associate tags to all AWS resources under an Amazon account.
You can now opt to attach specific tags associated with a monitor in the alerts raised for the monitor.
Monitor the regional edge cache-level metrics with the enhanced CloudFront monitoring with support for Lambda@Edge.
Observe the spending pattern of AWS costs aggregated on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis using Trend Analysis.
Generate reports, schedule maintenance, perform bulk action, and more for your subgroups in Site24x7.
Get visibility into performance metrics including active and inactive sessions and hosts, uptime status of individual session hosts, and CPU, memory, disk read/write of each host in your Windows Virtual Desktop environment.
Avoid accruing additional charges for Amazon EC2 instances by monitoring the unused capacity using Capacity Reservation monitoring.
By tightly integrating Site24x7 with ServiceNow ITSM platform, you'll be able to:
Obtain reports for your SSL/TLS, Brand Reputation, and Real-time Blacklist monitors and share the reports as an email, CSV file, or PDF.
You can now configure up to five monitors as dependent monitors.
Enable the option to automatically discover and add new SQL databases for monitoring.
Choose the CloudWatch metrics to be monitored for each AWS resource with Metric Profile.
Set polling interval from 1 min, 5 mins, 10 mins, 15 mins, 30 mins, 1 hour, 3 hours, 6 hours, 12 hours, to one day.
Monitoring support for Rainbow Server.
Transaction names can be customized using API's
Monitoring support for applications built on Java 9, 10, and 11.
Data processing method has been enhanced from single thread to multiple threads for faster data collection and processing.
From sending transactional emails to marketing newsletters, Amazon's cloud-based email service platform SES plays a vital role in an organization's customer engagement program. From today you can monitor email sending activity across your SES account with metrics like bounces, complaints, sends, clicks, open rate and more. Check out our community announcement to learn more.
Gain complete domain and SSL expiry details of your monitors in a single comprehensive FQDN report.
Monitor over 100 Azure services covering compute, storage, databases, network, analytics and security using the Azure monitor REST API.
Use Site24x7's NLP-based chatbot for Microsoft Teams to allow DevOps and application teams to remain in the zone of work even during IT incidents
While Amazon Elastic File System provides a highly scalable cloud file storage, our new integration provides you resource usage stats including burst balance, client connections, Percent I/O limit to help you select the right performance mode for your application workload. Check out our community announcement post to learn more.
Create a Top N Widget to compare the performance metric values of a similar type of monitors from your account or a particular monitor group.
View the health status and monitor all the hardware sensors voltage, battery, processor, watchdog, memory, and other sensors in addition to power, fan, temperature, and storage sensors.
Maintain the health and reliability of your cloud-hosted data warehouse. Monitor system level resource usage, network data transfer, disk activity, database health, node level information and more for your Redshift cluster to better optimize query performance. Check out our community announcement post to learn more.
Compare the availability and response time trends of your REST API and REST API Transaction monitors for a specified period from upto eight monitoring locations. Also, create a benchmark report for multiple monitors groups, comprising of Website, REST API, or REST API Transaction monitors.
Now ensure safe delivery of Site24x7 emails by enabling DKIM authentication for your sender email addresses.
Better understand how task and service definitions are impacting the system resources of your ECS cluster. Monitor CPU and memory reservation and utilization metrics, track the number of tasks in running and pending state, alert on service-level CPU/memory usage and other data. You can read our community annoucement post to learn more.
With respect to deprecation of earlier TLS versions, users were requested to upgrade their application programming environments, for uninterrupted monitoring. But with Java agent version 4.2, users need not upgrade their programming environments. The agent is compatible with TLS version 1.2 and ensures un-interrupted monitoring service.
Monitor the availability of the primary NTP server, and receive trouble alerts when the secondary NTP servers drift from the maximum drift threshold.
Get proper error messages and trouble notifications during DNSSEC validation failures.
Upload single-line logs, multi-line logs, as well as log files through an HTTPS endpoint using simple commands.
Response time, Errors and Pageviews consumed are shown along with Apdex score in RUM geography map.
Now create Performance graphical widget for your monitor groups. The widget renders average archived data of all the monitors in the group and auto-refreshes the data every one hour.
Now perform playback testing of your web interactions from 100 global locations using a Chrome-based playback engine.
Now register Site24x7 with your authentication server to monitor protected websites and endpoint APIs using Web Tokens.
Now you can view the overall summary data in your Executive Summary SLA report. See details like average Availability SLA compliance percentage value of your monitors, average Response time SLA compliance percentage value of your monitors, and the overall best in class response time value in milliseconds.
Monitoring support for Filter framework has been re-introduced.
Monitoring support added for Microsoft SQL Server CE
Effectively manage your AWS integration. The new Service View enables you to access information about monitored cloud services and provides new UI controls to help you quickly add new AWS integrations. You can read our community post to learn more.
Site24x7 has newly launched three monitoring locations in Wakefield and Nottingham, UK and Hyderabad, India. With these new locations in place, you're now able to monitor your IT resources from 100 unique locations across the globe.
How is API traffic changing over time? Are there too many client side-errors? What about API response time is it fast enough? Observe and alert on API execution metrics on both the stage-level and method-level to understand performance.
View Resources split up: Monitor the impact of your webpage resources over it's response time. You can classify and group your resources as first party, third party and CDN resources based on Domains. You can also analyse the time consumed by the resources based on the location and count.
The new advanced configuration gives you more control over your AWS integration. Configure default threshold profiles for all supported cloud services, create monitor groups using native AWS tags, choose recommendation checks and configure new baselines for the Guidance report, automatically move stopped resources into maintenance and more.
Monitor your Azure web applications built in .NET frameworkwith the help of APM Insight .NET agent. This feature is supported from APM Insight .NET agent version 4.0
We've simplified the Bulk action tasks by adding an advanced search filter. Now sort monitors with ease by defining multiple custom search criteria and apply actions to your filtered monitors at the click of a button.
You must confirm your root domain ownership to successfully setup your Status Page. Update and validate your DNS TXT records along with your CNAME records to successfully confirm your root domain.
Ensure better monitor management and prevent any unplanned monitor utilization by restricting usage in MSP customer accounts. Setup upper usage limit for your basic and advanced monitors. Learn more.
Prevent misuse of your status page sub domain by verifying your root domain ownership using the unique alphanumeric DNS TXT verification key.
Now identify the best and worst performing monitors using the Top N widget in Custom dashboard. The Top N widget renders the Top 5, 10, 20, or 25 monitors (of a selected monitor type) for a predefined time in the descending order of their performance data.
Monitor the frequency of request count of any custom metrics or variables using App Parameters. Supported platforms: Java and .NET
Exclude HTTP errors from monitoring to reduce noise in your monitoring environment
You can now upload and manage Windows event log types like system logs, application logs, security logs, and more using Site24x7 AppLogs.
Now you can disassociate multiple monitors from your chosen monitor group or a set of monitor groups—on a single click.
Your Global Benchmark Report can now help you determine the availability and response time trends of your monitor groups based on the average or 95th percentile values of the selected data.
Response time and Throughput graphs for
View external component split up : Analyse the amount of time spent by web requests on different components. Also, identify which component consumes more time and optimize your application performance.
Monitor Desktop and Console applications developed in .NET with APM Insight .NET agent. You can also analyze and optimize the performance of Windows Services developed in .NET platform.
Users now view metrics of all the memory pools available in Java 8 & 9. These metrics can beviewed under APM Insight > Java App > JVM > Memory
Now create Site24x7 tab in Microsoft Teams channel to import your Custom Dashboard inside the channel. Perform meaningful and contextual conversations over your Site24x7 dashboard data.
We've made some changes to the user permission levels to access the Custom Report and Global Benchmark Report.
Collect metrics for your infrastructure and Pass services powering your GovCloud (US) and China Region deployment for improved visibility, visualize resource usage and performance to identify trends and get alerted when problems start to arise. Learn more.
Upload your logs to the Site24x7 server and monitor them in a single, intuitive dashboard. Perform a query language search and track all performance issues from the same console.
Manually create a schematic description of your network topology by logically arranging your physical nodes, network devices, interfaces, and links over a predefined or custom background.
Now you can create specific attribute based templates by combining all your role specific attributes from different monitor types in your account. By associating your Attribute Alert Group with a User Alert Group, you can define your alert engine to share alerts with your contact list for only those alerts that are affected by an attribute breach.
You can now set thresholds for interface level attributes in your threshold profile to get notified of their breach.
Now you can mark a pre-defined maintenance window as downtime using the mark maintenance as downtime link listed in the Outages tab of your Internet Service Monitor's details page.
We've added Operator User role at Customer Level of an MSP account.
We've improved our AWS monitoring footprint by adding support for Amazon's managed message queue service – SQS. With this new integration, you can now collect data on message traffic patterns, queue backlog, message state/size and more to understand producer/consumer behavior, identify stale queues and troubleshoot performance. Check out our community announcement post to get started.
Now create unique Customer rosters to facilitate better management of Customer Accounts. You can streamline user management by enabling quick association of MSP Users with Customer Accounts. Usecase scenarios listed below
The traffic data that was displayed in bytes/second earlier, is now being displayed in bits/second with appropriate prefixes (bps / Kbps / Mbps / Gbps).
Monitor the tabular SNMP OIDs of your network devices using tabular performance counters. Categorize and view all your group-based performance metrics in a unified table.
Track application specific methods and user defined exceptions with Ruby agent API. The agent API automatically associates exceptions with respective transactions and comprehensive data can be viewed under a single console.
Now you can replicate an existing Web Transaction Monitor with all the configuration settings using the Clone Web Transaction feature in Site24x7.
Customize and define the acceptable HTTP Status Codes that should be considered as UP in your Web Page Speed (Browser). You can specify comma separated HTTP Status Codes or Status Code ranges separated by a colon.
Support for transaction based monitoring rather than file based monitoring. Previously, in MVC platforms, all transactions pass through a single URL (index.php) because of routing through the main controller. This issue has been addressed and URL for respective transactions are now enlisted specifically.
RUM playback with pause option allows you to view data for smaller time segments. This allows you to inspect the minor variations in your application performance over various geographic regions.
Connect Site24x7 monitor alerts with OpsGenie, an advanced incident management and alert handling platform for DevOps and IT. Use OpsGenie's alert & notification management, on-call scheduling and escalation capabilities to streamline Site24x7 monitor alerts.
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