Blog

News, how-to articles and the monthly What's new from the OpenBoxes Lift team.

  1. Why is my OpenBoxes slow? Five causes on self-hosted servers

    Five common reasons a self-hosted OpenBoxes is slow (Java memory, database memory, background jobs, restarts, long queries) and how to spot each.

  2. OpenBoxes upgrade checklist: before, during and after

    What to check before upgrading a self-hosted OpenBoxes: release notes, database version, a tested backup, a rehearsal on a copy, and the migration lock.

  3. Stock-outs in PagerDuty: paging on-call when stock runs out

    Open a PagerDuty incident when a product with a minimum level runs out, and test it without paging anyone. What the daily check does and does not do.

  4. Email, Slack, Teams or PagerDuty: where should your stock alerts go?

    What the stock alert email, Slack, Microsoft Teams and PagerDuty each carry in OpenBoxes Lift, and how to choose and combine them for your team.