This is the first in a series of articles that will explore the idea of creating a headless application, without…
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…
WARN Robot Detection.Exclude Robots
When troubleshooting an issue, I noticed thousands of log entries starting with WARN Robot Detection.Exclude Robots. Unsure if this was…
Login hanging on Identity Server
For some time now we have been facing issues with users getting stuck on Identity Server and not being returned…
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…
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…
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…
Personalisation Demo Site
This post will look at a simple site that showcases some basic personalisation within sitecore, built using C# MVC and…
Moving from DXP To XM Cloud
As discussed at SUGCON this year, there seems to be a real buzz in the sitecore community, about the move…
Domain not mapping through to Sitecore site in Kubernetes cluster
I came across an issue a while back when deploying Sitecore to Kubernetes, that had me stumped for several weeks.…
Items not being indexed after publish
Our marketing team recently reported an issue, whereby items where no longer being automatically indexed after a publish. Upon further…