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Signals Is Lighting Up the Future of On-Call: Eight (Yes, 8!) New Features Just Released

We’re going beyond notifications — and building the most powerful, flexible, and team-first on-call experience on the market. When we launched Signals, it was because alerting and on-call desperately needed a reset. Legacy tools hadn’t evolved with the way modern teams work — they were individual-centric, inflexible, and wildly overpriced. Signals changed that.

StatusGator now monitors 6,000+ services

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.

Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21

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.

Top 5 outages detected by StatusGator in June 2025

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.

Pepperdata Helps Karpenter Work Better

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.

Faster incident response through distributed tracing: Inside Glovo's use of Traces Drilldown

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.