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New integration: OptiSigns

We’re excited to introduce our first Digital Signage integration with OptiSigns. You can now display your StatusGator board on TVs and digital signage screens, giving everyone in your office real-time visibility into vendor outages, maintenance events, and service health. The display updates automatically whenever monitored services change, helping teams stay informed without opening another app.

Azure outage on July 23, 2026: StatusGator detected it 1 hour before Microsoft acknowledged it

On July 23, 2026, Azure users around the world began hitting gateway timeouts, DNS failures, and unreachable virtual machines well before Microsoft posted anything on its status page. The first reports reached StatusGator at 15:06 UTC. By 15:28 UTC, StatusGator had sent an Early Warning Signal to subscribers. Microsoft did not acknowledge the incident until 16:29 UTC.

DNS Spy Now Connects to GoDaddy. Every Domain, Every Record, Read-Only.

GoDaddy manages more domains than any registrar on earth, so it has always been near the top of our provider integration list. There was just one problem: in May 2024, GoDaddy restricted its API to accounts holding ten or more domains — fifty for some endpoints. Overnight, certificate renewals broke, dynamic DNS scripts died, and every small business with one or two domains was locked out of automating anything.

8 Best Anti-spam Software To Increase Email Security

With an increasing number of employees working from home, getting top-notch security software has become more important than ever before. While spam can be harmless and viewed as a minor productivity issue, it’s also a significant source of email-borne threats that can put the whole company at risk. Therefore, getting a robust, scalable anti-spam filter is now a necessity, especially for IT services providers and other large-scale use cases.

Session Replay for Unreal Engine: see the crash before the crash

You know the drill: a crash report lands in your queue with a pristine stack trace pointing at some innocent-looking function and absolutely no clue about what the player was actually doing. Were they mid-boss-fight? Alt-tabbing during a loading screen? Standing perfectly still in the tutorial? QA can’t repro it, the player’s bug report says “game crashed lol,” and you’re left staring at a callstack playing twenty questions with a core dump.

The July 23 2026 Azure West US Outage: IP Route Removal and Downstream Impact

On July 23, 2026, Microsoft Azure experienced a connectivity outage in the West US region that blocked traffic entering or leaving the region for nearly five hours. Workloads that stayed entirely inside West US were not affected. Microsoft's preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) attributes the failure to a bug in maintenance request conversion software that removed IP routes from more devices than intended during routine device maintenance.

5 Best Password Management Software

An average business user must deal with tens, if not hundreds, of passwords daily. Therefore, getting password management right in a business environment may seem like a daunting task. The largest players tend to pick one of the enterprise-grade solutions to ensure security and flexibility, as well as enjoy plenty of extra features that make their processes more efficient. Read on as we walk you through our selection of what we believe is the best password management software out there.

How Claude Mythos Changes the Future of Vulnerability Management: Fixing, Not Finding

Anthropic’s Claude Mythos shows how AI is making vulnerability discovery nearly infinite. Endpoint remediation is where IT teams win or lose. In April 2026, Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model that autonomously discovered thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. By late May, the running total had passed 23,000 potential findings, and the vast majority were still unpatched.