Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Welcome to Spike! Whether you’ve just set up your account or joined an existing team, this guide will help you understand how to receive and respond to incidents.

“We’ve got a new alert – have you seen it yet?”“Which one? The CPU spike or the unusual login?”“The login. Same region as yesterday. But the CPU thing looks suspicious too.”“…Alright, I’ll check the firewall logs. You take the containers.”“Perfect. Let’s hope this doesn’t turn into another all-hands situation.” Does this conversation sound familiar?

Back in 2024, I officially put a name to a concept at Civo we had been developing for many years. I called it cloud parity. When Civo was incepted, two completely different worlds existed, the public cloud dominated by Amazon, Microsoft and Google, and the private cloud dominated mainly by VMware.

How I used Aiven's free Kafka tier to monitor my smart bird feeder in real-time.

Fixing Kafka’s 80% problem with a serious fully managed free Kafka.

Safe, Direct Access to Runtime Code Across Staging, Pre-prod and Production via MCP Enables Fundamental Step Forward in Autonomous Software Delivery and Reliability for Enterprises NEW YORK, December 10, 2025 – Lightrun, a leader in software reliability, today launched its new Model Context Protocol (MCP) solution, enabling the industry’s first fully integrated Runtime Context for AI coding agents.

As your application scales to serve hundreds, thousands, or even millions of users, understanding its performance becomes essential. Performance monitoring helps you make informed decisions based on data instead of guesswork or user complaints. Imagine users reporting that your app feels"slow". Without proper instrumentation and monitoring, you're left troubleshooting blindly.

The pace of change in data center operations shows no sign of slowing, and 2026 is shaping up to be another year of rapid evolution. AI-driven demand is accelerating, hybrid architectures are growing more complex, and capacity constraints are forcing teams to rethink how they plan and operate their environments. Against this backdrop, data center professionals are reassessing the tools, processes, and strategies they rely on every day.

Managing SSL certificates is essential for maintaining trust, security, and uptime across any website or online service. While many people think SSL certificate management refers to renewing or issuing certificates, one of the most critical aspects,often overlooked,is monitoring certificates for expiry, validity, and unexpected changes. That’s the area where monitoring platforms provide their highest value.

Because I don’t want to have to fight with our support team (they’re awesome, but busy) I decided that, initially, I’m going to host dbRosetta at ScaryDBA.com. I have full control of the web site, and I won’t be breaking Redgate Software entirely if I accidently do something silly. Before starting the process of developing our next prompt, or set of prompts, I discussed the project with CoPilot. We agreed to break the next part into two pieces.