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Manage alerts through our API

You can now add and delete Server Density server monitoring alerts through our API. This is useful if you want to automate provisioning monitoring for your servers. We’re in the [...]


New things in Server Density

Last week was our internal Random Week which we run every ~6 weeks to allow our team to choose anything they want to work on that might fall outside the [...]


Removing Memcached because it’s too slow

Update There has been a lot of discussion of this post around whether this is a problem with Memcached or something else. The post content is accurate but in hindsight, [...]


A new Dashboard for Server Density

Today we unveil our new Server Density dashboard with a fluid layout, a re-written javascript engine and a new UI. Our main objectives for the new dashboard were to display [...]


Server Density for iOS updated

Apple has approved our completely revamped iOS app for Server Density server monitoring and it is now available free on the App Store! The app has been rewritten from scratch [...]


Server Density Chrome Application

Get it here: Server Density Chrome Application. This is my third Random Week with Boxed Ice and it was a blast to get to spend the week in London, but [...]


Announcing remote service monitoring

As of today, we’re pleased to announce remote response time and up/down status monitoring of external URLs in addition to the existing monitoring of internal server metrics via our agent. [...]


Writing a SQL Server Monitoring Plugin

The Server Density plugin architecture on Windows makes use of DLL’s written in C# by implementing a specific interface as outlined here in the plugin documentation. Rather than build functionality [...]


MongoDB monitoring improvements + API 1.2

Yesterday we pushed out some improvements to our server monitoring service, Server Density: MongoDB is not master alerts A new alert type is available to receive an alert when a [...]


Server Density improvements

As well as large projects, we like to make ongoing small but important UI tweaks for our server monitoring tool, Server Density. These are usually released as they’re finished with [...]