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Why FedRAMP In Process Matters for Federal Customers

Dec 8, 2025 By Cribl In Cribl
Chris Ebley from Blackwood explains why FedRAMP In Process is a major milestone. It gives federal teams confidence that the product can handle sensitive data, meets strict security controls, and comes from a company committed to operating at the maturity level the government expects. This opens new go to market opportunities and makes it easier for agencies to move forward with Cribl.
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Transaction Check Basics in less than 3 minutes

Dec 6, 2025 By Uptime Website Monitoring In uptime
In this video, we explore the basics of Transaction Checks on Uptime.com, an advanced multi-step monitoring tool for website elements. Learn how to create customized scripts to mimic user actions such as visiting a site, filling out forms, and clicking buttons. We walk through a step-by-step guide on setting up a Transaction Check to monitor a login process, including navigating to a URL, validating HTTP status codes, and using browser developer tools to configure field entries. Discover different monitoring intervals and tips for organizing your checks with tags and location settings.
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Towards a more resilient StatusGator

Dec 5, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
Between October 20 and December 5, 2025, a rapid succession of major outages across multiple cloud providers disrupted large portions of the internet. Each of these events affected StatusGator in different ways. After each incident, we implemented improvements to strengthen our reliability. This post summarizes the impact of each outage, the changes made, and the architectural work now underway to ensure StatusGator remains available during the moments when it is needed most.
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Cloudflare was down again: Here's what happened.

Dec 5, 2025 By Andy Libby In StatusGator
On December 5, 2025, the internet faced another major disruption – the second significant Cloudflare-related outage in just a few weeks. A similar widespread incident occurred on November 18, which we covered in detail in our post The internet broke again – StatusGator can help. Today’s outage reinforces how quickly issues within core internet infrastructure can ripple outward and impact thousands of services simultaneously.
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What Services Are Not Downdetector Alternatives - And Why StatusGator Actually Is

Dec 5, 2025 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
Search for Downdetector alternatives on Google, ask ChatGPT or any AI assistant, and you’ll usually get a list of tools like Datadog, Site24x7, New Relic, Atera, and other monitoring platforms. There’s just one problem: The AI-generated answers continue to lump these monitoring tools together, creating confusion for IT teams and muddying the category. This article exists to set the record straight.
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Making Sense of Complex Data in Observability Tools

Dec 5, 2025 By Marta Barnych, Robert Rochon In Selector
Metrics, analytics, measurements, and parameters – can we truly see these abstractions? Data visualization helps us do just that, bridging the gap between raw information and human comprehension. Visualizing data is like rafting down a river – dynamic, unpredictable, and full of discoveries along the way. In this guide, we’ll explore how to craft visualizations that inform, engage, and inspire. So, grab your paddle and hop aboard!
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Visualising Sentry analytics with SquaredUp

Dec 5, 2025 By Squared Up In Squared Up
Sentry is a mature observability product with SDKs supporting nearly every major programming language. It has expert knowledge of each coding stack and is therefore capable of offering rich insights with a minimum of initialisation required by the developer. You don’t need to set up OpenTelemetry collectors or wrestle with endpoint configurations; simply drop the SDK initialisation into your application start-up process and telemetry begins flowing into the Sentry backend.
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