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PostgreSQL and multiple-server support brings Dawn to the enterprise

If your website runs across multiple servers or uses PostgreSQL as its database, Dawn™ can now support your environment! This week we’re excited to release a major update to Dawn. Previously Dawn could only monitor a website if it ran on a single server.

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How to get your Dawn on

Until now you had to contact us to try out Dawn™ , but now you can do it all yourself. That’s what we’d like to tell you about Dawn this week. So off you go, and sign up now! What, you'd like some more information? Okay, sure.

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Get your Dawn demo here folks

We've been talking about Dawn™ for a while now, but really, we'd rather show you it than tell you about it. That's why we've created the Dawn demo. Go ahead, click it open in another tab. I'll wait right here for you.

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An election day dawns

On October 9, results for New Zealand's Local Body Elections were announced. The day saw nearly 80 mayors and hundreds of other local representatives democratically elected. As we were responsible for the elections2010.co.nz website, an official source of election results, this was a big day for us.

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Dawn on us

When you want to monitor sites built using the SilverStripe CMS, DawnTM is an excellent choice, so naturally, we’re using Dawn on our own websites, SilverStripe.com and SilverStripe.org, as well as on some of our clients' sites.

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Dawn brings peace of mind to Philadelphia

You never want to hear that your site has fallen over, but when you work for the Philadelphia Police Department’s website, you really don’t want to get that call. That's why Lloyd Emelle from Hyaline Creative relies on Dawn™ .

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How Dawn helps you avoid disk thrashing

We just improved Dawn, our website monitoring tool, to help prevent and identify another common cause of website outages: disk thrashing.One common cause of disk thrashing is excessive use of memory (RAM). This may be due to a large volume of traffic hitting your server, or complex pages which require...

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Dawn in action

It's always great to see our stuff being used in action, solving real problems. Today, we've got a "real-world" story to tell about Dawn™.

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Dawn: Why do we monitor what we monitor? Part 3 of 3 - The SilverStripe Layer

This article was written from an interview with Sam Minnée(Continued from part two.)The PHP/SilverStripe LevelWhen we were considering what information Dawn needed to gather from the SilverStripe layer, we decided upon two types. The first are errors and warnings generated by PHP.

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Dawn: Why do we monitor what we monitor? Part 2 of 3 - Apache and MySQL

This article was written from an interview with Sam Minnée(Continued from part one.)The Webserver LevelApache monitoring in Dawn is done using an Apache plugin called mod_status. (Administrators of Apache will probably be familiar with it.) It gives information about the current Apache processes.

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