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Building on our FedRAMP Moderate authorization and our “In Process” status for FedRAMP High, Datadog for Government is now "In Process" for GovRAMP High Authorization, giving agencies a unified observability platform that meets the toughest public-sector security bars.

If you still think websites are a “set it and forget it” asset, your business is going to get left behind. Fast. Nowadays, they are known as a place where business happens, patients connect, and money moves.

It’s almost 1 p.m. on a Monday afternoon and you’re hungry. You pull up your meal delivery app and select your favorite restaurant and dish. Then you go to check out and nothing happens. Your frustration mounts as you get hungrier by the minute. But there’s frustration on the other side of that transaction as well—engineers are scrambling to figure out what’s wrong as orders drop and revenue losses rise.

Running Kubernetes on AWS? You're probably using Karpenter, the open-source autoscaler that dynamically provisions new instances as your EKS workloads grow. Karpenter launches rightsized instances in real time in response to pending pods, based on available instance types and the resources applications need. It also terminates underutilized nodes to reduce costs.

In June, we introduced several powerful updates designed to enhance your monitoring experience and keep your team ahead of downtime. From the new TrackSSL integration to an embeddable status modal for your website, here’s a quick look at what’s new.n your site, here’s everything you need to know.

June 2025 saw several high-impact outages across popular cloud services — from infrastructure giants like Google Cloud to developer platforms like Supabase and Heroku. For IT teams, MSPs, and developers, even short service disruptions can have ripple effects across workflows and customer experience. At StatusGator, we continuously monitor thousands of services to detect issues in real time — often before they’re publicly acknowledged.

In this article, discover how the Qovery engineering team built a high-performance Logs Interface to handle thousands of lines of data efficiently.

We’re excited to share that our latest industry analysis has been featured in Packet Pushers, one of the most trusted voices in networking and infrastructure.

Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and benefit from 12 years of security support.

Today, StatusGator monitors over 6,000 cloud services and tools — a massive expansion that reflects how far we’ve come, and how deeply embedded we are in the fabric of modern infrastructure. In today’s world, your product’s reliability depends on a web of vendors — authentication providers, analytics platforms, CDNs, payment processors, communication tools, and more. At 6,000+ services, StatusGator now reflects your entire digital supply chain.