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Eating dog food can help you be a better leader

Gav Winter, October 17, 2018

Dogfooding can help you understand what you have, help you set your future direction and understand the challenges your team face on a day to day basis.

Ubuntu 16.04: How to manually compile PHP 7.2 with ZTS enabled and the pThreads module installed

James Tyler, October 5, 2018

Explaining how to manually compile PHP 7.2 with the necessary options to enable ZTS and install pThreads, giving you access to true multi-threading in PHP.

New: Debug performance issues by comparing two IPM tests

Bryn Dodgson, September 27, 2018

You can now compare two Intelligent Page Monitors, view them side by side to help identify the reason behind performance issues.

Alternative to Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

Sam Jenkins, September 24, 2018

Read: 10 min

An alternative to Application Performance Monitoring (APM) to monitor free memory, available disk space and CPU load average.

New: Weekly Activity Report

Gav Winter, September 13, 2018

We're excited to announce a new report: Executive Insights enables you to view performance metrics, comparative data and much more!

Jazz Up your Slack Alerts with Giphy

Sam Jenkins, August 20, 2018

Read: 5 min

Make your RapidSpike Slack Alerts totally unmissable by adding the finest animated GIFs. Draw attention to critical down-time and delight your coworkers at the same time!

Intelligent Page Monitoring: The Next Level

James Tyler, August 10, 2018

We've greatly improved our IPM software. Read on to see what this means for you and your page monitoring statistics!

Introducing: Supercharged API Monitoring

Bryn Dodgson, July 20, 2018

We've massively upgraded our API Monitoring to include Custom Headers. Configure your GET, POST, PUT and DELETE HTTP monitors any way you want!

RapidSpike appoints Gav Winter as CEO

Gav Winter, June 26, 2018

We're thrilled to announce Gav Winter has joined the team at RapidSpike as our new CEO!

Office 365 and Microsoft Teams Notifications

Sam Jenkins, June 14, 2018

Read: 5 min

Integrate your Microsoft Teams or Office 365 apps with RapidSpike and never miss a notification when it counts.

Magento Security Scanner

Sam Jenkins, May 29, 2018

Read: 5 min

The latest in a long line of supercharged improvements to our scanning software, we can now detect and analyse vulnerabilities in Magento websites!

Monitoring Potentially Hazardous Asteroids

Sam Jenkins, May 23, 2018

Read: 10 min

RapidSpike Connect Anything monitor really will let you monitor *anything*. What critical metrics do you need to measure?

Pushover Notifications

Sam Jenkins, May 9, 2018

Read: 5 min

Integrate your RapidSpike account with Pushover and receive mobile notifications when any of your alerts are triggered!

Joomla! CMS Vulnerability Scanner

Sam Jenkins, May 2, 2018

Read: 5 min

Using Joomla as your CMS? You can now scan your Joomla site and we'll automatically detect security vulnerabilities.

Drupal Security Scanner – Just in Time for Drupalgeddon2

Sam Jenkins, April 30, 2018

Read: 5 min

We've extended our Vulnerability Scanner to detect Drupal, Joomla and Silverstripe websites and check for known vulnerabilities.

Introducing Dashboard Widgets

Bryn Dodgson, April 26, 2018

Customise your RapidSpike dashboard with widgets designed to show a wide variety of key stats on your account, monitors and critical websites and servers!