This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the idea of creating a headless application, without…
Search Analytics for Sitecore XM/XP
This module allows you to track searches made within your Sitecore website. In addition, it registers the order in which…
Application Insights for Sitecore Module
I would like to introduce the Application Insights for Sitecore Module! Some of the key benefits of this module are…
Sitecore Page Recommender
This series of blogs will look at the steps I took to create a page recommendation engine for Sitecore. The…
Setting Up a Service Monitor
We recently had cause to create a simple service to monitor another service, then send the status of the monitored…
Monitoring SOLR Services
On a few occasions recently we have been investigating an issue, only to find that one of more of our…
Connect NextJs Application to Sitecore Identity Server
This is the fifth article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
NextJs Application to replicate the MVC equivalent.
This is the fourth article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
Advanced NextJs To Consume Layout Service
This is the third article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
NextJs App to Consume Layout Service
This is the second article in a series that explores the idea of creating a headless application, without the luxury…
Barriers to XM Cloud
The sitecore landscape has been changing for a number of years, with a significant switch towards ‘composable’ architecture, and ultimately…
Application Insights Module: Alerting Added
The Application Insights for Sitecore Module now comes with Alerting built in. The module periodically queries the Azure Monitor Application…
Application Insights Module: Switch to Entra Auth
In February 2024, Microsoft Azure retired the ‘Classic Application Insights’ and forced people to migrate to ‘Workplace-based’ resources. In reality…
MVP Application 2024
These are the contributons that I would like to be considered as part of my application to become a Sitecore…
Search Analytics: Webinar
This is a recording of a presentation I gave to our Marketing department. The focus of the talk was to…
Search Analytics: Creating the Sitecore Module
In this post, we will look at how we surface data into a useful format and create a search report.…
Search Analytics: Capturing the data
This is the first in a series of posts that will take a look under the hood of how the…
How to Install Search Analytics For Sitecore
Go to https://github.com/deanobrien/search-analytics-for-sitecore and download the relevant ZIP file for your version of Sitecore (i.e. Sitecore 9 Compatible – Search Analytics for Sitecore…
A Day with Sitecore Search
We recently purchased Sitecore Search and today was my first chance to have a look at the product in detail…
Device Detection service failing to initialise
We recently experienced an issue after an upgrade from 10.1 to 10.3, whereby our Device Detection service was failing to…