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We continue to evolve Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring to help you simulate even the most complex transactions and user journeys, and proactively monitor the performance of your web applications and APIs. In line with this effort, we’re excited to share that k6 browser checks in Synthetic Monitoring are now generally available.

As an IT professional, you know that Microsoft Teams is only as good as the network it runs on. Poor call quality (choppy audio, frozen video, or sudden disconnections) can disrupt productivity and frustrate users. But how do you pinpoint the root cause? The answer lies in monitoring Microsoft Teams performance metrics.

I have just finished reviewing the Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual Report for 2025, which offers fascinating insights into the next wave of organizational evolution. I am particularly excited about the section titled ‘Journey to the Frontier Firm’ and what is possible in phase three, where employees will harness the power of multiple AI agents, creating an ‘agentic swarm’ capable of executing tasks at a scale and speed previously unimaginable.

The challenges plaguing IT operations are not new. The exponential growth of hybrid and multi-cloud environments, increasing data volume, complexity, and accelerating pace of change have made traditional approaches to IT operations unsustainable.

A public status page is a page that you can share with your team to show a summary view of your third-party dependencies. We rolled out this feature recently to all IncidentHub users. This article is a quick tour of the feature and how to set it up.

When your checkout flow breaks, customers disappear faster than most ‘cutting-edge’ JS metaframeworks. Thankfully, setting up observability for your critical paths—like a customer checkout—is painless with Sentry. Let's walk through how we instrumented, monitored, and fixed a major issue, with minimal effort.

Tech is entering another wave of innovation with AI. With accelerated innovation comes increased complexity in already disparate environments. For Defense, those complexities are compounded by the need to maintain and operate mission critical infrastructure with highly sensitive data in air-gapped environments, often running on custom digital systems and applications. Accelerating the speed of innovation with leading technology is key for the military to maintain its competitive edge.

No one likes to admit it but we all hit snooze on the morning alarm every now and then. The same goes for Oh Dear alerts - sometimes you know that link deep in the docs will get fixed eventually but right now you're busy working on something else. Getting reminded every hour isn’t always helpful. Since April 2020, Oh Dear has allowed you to temporarily silence alerts for any check.

Being the most popular cloud solution provider, AWS needs no introduction. With its powerful and numerous services and solutions, many companies of all sizes and shapes run their applications and/or infrastructure on AWS. With AWS being integrated with other internal services as well as external solutions hosting the business apps, it is crucial to be aware of what's happening across the landscape and beyond, to ensure business continuity. The AWS plugin for SquaredUp helps you achieve exactly that.