Synthetic user monitoring simulates user experience on your website. It works by scripting typical user actions, and then simulates user click at regular intervals, to ensure that your website is responsive. This directed monitoring provides information like the uptime and performance of your critical business transactions. The questions that synthetic monitoring can help you answer …
Single CDN A single CDN solution is recommended for companies that are only targeting certain geographic locations while the scale is still at its growing phase to distribute their website content globally. Single CDN solution may be suitable for most market needs if website content/applications are mostly static; media streaming, social media platform, or web-based …
Companies invest heavily in enterprise and synthetic monitoring of their cloud hosting and infrastructure, but research has shown these monitoring only contributes to 26% of the latency involving the entire customer access journey. Customer access journey starts when a customer starts loading the web applications from their mobile or desktop devices and goes through their ISPs, then …
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RUM vs synthetic monitoring Synthetic Monitoring creates synthetic interactions with your website to predict performance and monitor uptime. Because it uses scripts to predict behavior, it can’t account for the complex ways users navigate your apps—it will only test for what you ask it to. Real user monitoring, on the other hand, takes data from how …
Moving to a Multi CDN can seem complex, and many businesses may understandably be hesitant to start building over a new provider; especially if everything seems to be running fine with the current single CDN provider. However, Multi CDN strategies provide many great benefits that can greatly improve your online business performance and experience. With …
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DDoS attacks are generally classified into the following 3 categories: Volumetric attacks: This category of exploited method attempts to create congestion by consuming all available bandwidth between the target and the larger Internet. Large amounts of data are sent to a target by using a form of amplification or another means of creating massive traffic, …
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks are malicious attempts to block businesses from its traffic. During a DDoS attack, the target server/service/network is flooded with malicious traffic generated by exploited systems on the internet. At the same time, legitimate customers and users cannot access the target. How does a DDoS attack work? A DDoS attack requires an …
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Web attacks refer to a category of cyber-attacks that generally occur on or through a website. The most common ones are SQL injection, cross-site scripting, remote file inclusion, and brute force attacks. The risk of attack that each website faces depends on the motive of the attacker, security of the site and the information assets …
Nearly every business organization has a website or several websites which they use to offer their services as well as interact with their customers. Websites are beneficial since they enable a company to offer its services twenty-four hours, seven days a week. Such web-based services normally involve the exchange of a lot of sensitive information …
RUM from start to finish The RUM service provider will generate a small JavaScript snippet unique for your website. Insert the JavaScript snippet into the header or footer of the HTML code of a common/index page of the web application that needs to be monitored. This script collects and sends telemetry from each end-user as …
