StatusGator continues to demonstrate its value by providing early warning alerts for service disruptions, often detecting issues before official acknowledgment. Below, we highlight key incidents from November 2024 where StatusGator’s monitoring helped users stay ahead.

We’re excited to announce a small but useful update to your StatusGator experience! You can now set the status summary to be expanded by default on your status page. This change allows you to present more information to your users upfront, providing immediate details on any current incidents.

Generative AI (GenAI) is revolutionizing industries by driving innovation and delivering unparalleled customer value. Across sectors, its impact is evident.

Implicit list iteration in CFEngine is quite a unique and novel feature. Today we look at a practice example showing how lists can improve the readability and maintainability of your policy. A novel feature in CFEngine is how a list variable is iterated when referenced as a scalar ($(variable)). Let’s take a look at a contrived example.

For accurate and effective performance testing, synthetic monitoring has become a staple and this is only going to continue in the coming years. This is mainly due to the fact that this process is beneficial and offers numerous advantages to organizations. With synthetic monitoring, your organization can identify performance issues before they affect real users. By continuously simulating user interactions, your team can highlight and rectify performance bottlenecks and infrastructure issues in real time.

In today’s data-driven world, ensuring the security and compliance of your data pipelines is paramount. Cribl Stream and Cribl Edge offer powerful telemetry data management and enrichment solutions. However, deploying these tools within your environment often requires careful consideration of security and compliance standards.

When things go wrong with your software systems, you need a reliable way to alert the right people and manage incidents. To help you make the best decision, we have summarized the G2 reviews of some of the most popular on-call management tools.

AWS powers countless businesses with its vast services and unmatched scalability, but managing such a dynamic environment comes with challenges. Effective monitoring isn’t an option—it’s essential for ensuring performance, controlling costs, and maintaining compliance. Without a strategic approach, issues can escalate quickly, impacting customer experiences and business outcomes.

You might be familiar with the following scenario: You have a monitor displaying 20 open applications to oversee multiple networks or various aspects of your network infrastructure. Your inbox is steadily filling up with emails—many of which you can't seem to open and respond to in a timely manner. Outstanding tasks are accumulating, all due to an unexpected outage in a data center. If this resonates with you, it's likely that you are a network administrator or someone who works closely with them.

An often-overlooked, powerful feature of DX UIM (Unified Infrastructure Management) is the Alarm Enrichment probe. Deployed on the Primary Hub as part of the standard installation, this feature has significant, often untapped potential to enhance the effectiveness of alarms generated by DX UIM.