Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

When we first launched Catchpoint’s Internet Resilience Report back in 2024, we were already seeing troubling cracks in the digital foundations of major businesses. Remember the CrowdStrike outage? Fast-forward to this year, and it's clear the stakes have only gotten higher. Google Cloud’s recent outage is yet another reminder of how tightly interwoven the Internet is and how all it takes is for one major player to go down, for thousands of businesses to be affected worldwide.

VictoriaMetrics introduces FIPS 140-3 compatible builds for its components, starting with version 1.117.0. These builds utilize Google’s FIPS 140-3 validated BoringCrypto module. This is critical for customers in regulated environments (federal government, finance, healthcare) to meet FIPS 140-3 cryptographic requirements for data encryption, TLS, and secure communications.

Managing a facility means dealing with issues at all hours, often when no one is sitting at their desks watching the controls. Building automation systems act as the smart backbone of today’s buildings by connecting HVAC, lighting, fire safety, security, electricity, and more into one seamless platform.

Each year, Gartner’s Hype Cycle provides a powerful lens through which to view the evolving landscape of healthcare technology. The 2025 Gartner Hype Cycle for Digital Care Delivery is no exception, spotlighting innovations that promise to transform clinical care and address some of healthcare’s most pressing challenges, from clinician burnout to workforce shortages and escalating costs.

Get a practical look at how Australian government IT leaders can future-proof infrastructure with flexible, sovereign-aligned connectivity. This blog was originally published on PublicSectorNetwork.com.au on 11th June 2025 and republished with permission. As digital transformation accelerates across the public sector, Australian government agencies face a complex challenge: how to modernize IT infrastructure while safeguarding sovereignty, strengthening security, and maintaining compliance.

Your checkout API just started throwing 500s during peak traffic. You SSH into production, tail logs across six microservices, and realize the database timeout buried in service's logs is causing cascade failures. Two hours later, you've fixed it, but you're thinking: "There has to be a better way." There is. Log monitoring tools centralize logs from your entire stack, making debugging systematic instead of archaeological.

Imagine setting up your AWS configuration in Grafana Cloud by hand and clicking through menus. When you only have a few services, it’s not a big deal. But as you add more and more, keeping track of every little change becomes a headache. It’s easy to make mistakes, and before you know it, things can get out of sync and your monitoring becomes unreliable.

Kentik CEO and co-founder Avi Freedman explains why observability is not enough in the age of AI.

You write code. Open a PR. CI runs. PR merges. Prod’s on fire by 5pm. Maybe you skipped writing some tests. (It's tedious, sometimes unclear, and easy to ignore when you're racing to ship—until something breaks and you realize a test could’ve saved your Friday night.) Maybe the PR review was more of a drive-by from a teammate who barely had time to skim the diff. But reviews and tests matter.

It’s 2 AM. Your phone buzzes. A critical server’s CPU is maxing out again. But this time, the issue isn’t just high usage. It’s heat. As a network admin, you’re trained to monitor traffic patterns, patch vulnerabilities, and respond to performance slowdowns. But high CPU temperature? That’s the silent system killer many still underestimate. Without a proactive plan, it can knock out performance, rack up hardware costs, and shorten the lifespan of your infrastructure.