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DNS is one of the most important and most overlooked layers in your client’s infrastructure. As an MSP, you’re often the one who gets blamed when something breaks—whether you control the DNS or not. And while many DNS problems are silent, their consequences are loud: email failures, website outages, and frustrated clients. This DNS security checklist will help you proactively identify and fix DNS risks across all your client domains.

The rise of platform engineering has put a new team at the center of the developer experience. These teams are tasked with building the "paved road" for developers, which includes providing a robust, self-service observability stack. However, they face a dual mandate: provide a great developer experience and manage the ever-growing costs and complexity of the tools involved.

July was a busy month here at StatusGator! We rolled out several highly requested integrations and a few handy improvements to make staying on top of service issues even easier. Here’s what’s new.

How many times has your team stared at a dashboard, pointed to a spike, and asked a question that charts alone can’t answer? “What was the real impact of that deployment?” “Why are our Kubernetes pods in the us-east-1 cluster suddenly crashing?” “Are we wasting money on overprovisioned servers?” Answering these questions is the real work of operations and SRE.

The rate at which vulnerabilities are being exploited is on the rise. The VulnCheck company, which specializes in vulnerability intelligence, found that in Q1 2025, 28.3% of vulnerabilities were exploited within 1 day of CVE disclosure. Keeping your systems up to date is more important than ever. The reality is that many security teams are running scans and then exporting to giant spreadsheets, which are “tossed over the wall” to the Operations team with little context.

Your domain name is your digital real estate. It is how customers find you, search engines rank you, and your brand builds trust in the digital world. Whether you run a small blog, an e-commerce store, or a large business, your domain is the foundation of your online activities. But what happens if you forget to renew it? A domain expiry can cause your site to go offline. It can also hurt your SEO rankings and affect your website traffic.

Imagine if degrading network performance—not just bad code—disrupted your live stream during a high-profile event. Customers start flooding support lines. Social media lights up. Your NOC teams scramble to identify the root cause amid fragmented systems. The outage impacts not only your broadcast, but also subscriber logins, ad delivery, and mobile apps. Advertisers want refunds. Executives ask, “Why didn’t we see this coming?”