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The Platform Engineer's Playbook: Mastering OpenTelemetry & Compliance with Mezmo and Dynatrace

The rise of platform engineering has put a new team at the center of the developer experience. These teams are tasked with building the "paved road" for developers, which includes providing a robust, self-service observability stack. However, they face a dual mandate: provide a great developer experience and manage the ever-growing costs and complexity of the tools involved.

The MSP's DNS Security Checklist

DNS is one of the most important and most overlooked layers in your client’s infrastructure. As an MSP, you’re often the one who gets blamed when something breaks—whether you control the DNS or not. And while many DNS problems are silent, their consequences are loud: email failures, website outages, and frustrated clients. This DNS security checklist will help you proactively identify and fix DNS risks across all your client domains.

What's the easiest way to check my website's uptime?

Whether you're keeping a personal blog or manage a corporate site or online storefront, website downtime can cost money and can damage your reputation. Let alone when you're maintaining a bunch of different client sites. And while downtime can't always be prevented, it's really easy to at least keep track of things, and diagnose potential issues from there. So, let’s start with the easy part.

What are Application Metrics?

Application metrics are structured, quantifiable signals that reflect how your software behaves in production. They capture key aspects of performance, response times, error rates, throughput, and resource usage, giving you a real-time view into the health of your system. Tracking the right metrics helps detect regressions early, surface latent issues before they impact users, and guide optimization decisions based on hard data, not guesswork.

Top 5 EdTech outages detected by StatusGator in July 2025

July 2025 saw several significant service disruptions affecting the education technology (EdTech) ecosystem. From online learning platforms to creative tools used by teachers and students, these outages caused widespread frustration. StatusGator monitored and detected these incidents, providing early alerts to help schools and organizations stay informed.