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Top 5 EdTech outages detected by StatusGator in March 2025

In March 2025, several major EdTech services experienced outages that impacted students, educators, and institutions. StatusGator’s real-time monitoring and Early Warning Signals feature helped users stay ahead of these disruptions, providing alerts before official acknowledgments. Here’s a recap of the top EdTech outages detected in March.

Top 5 Outages Detected by StatusGator in March 2025

In March 2025, several major services experienced outages that disrupted businesses and users worldwide. StatusGator provided early detection and real-time updates, helping users stay informed before official announcements. With its Early Warning Signals feature, StatusGator alerted users to potential disruptions even before official status pages reported issues, offering a crucial advantage in mitigating downtime. Here are the top five outages detected by StatusGator in March.

9 Best Container Monitoring Tools You Should Know in 2025

In a world where containers power everything from startup MVPs to enterprise applications, keeping tabs on your containerized environment isn't just good practice—it's survival. Container environments are notoriously dynamic and ephemeral, creating unique monitoring challenges that traditional tools simply can't handle. We've sorted through the noise to bring you the nine tools that deliver.

Want to grow your revenues? Think Microsoft managed services.

As an MSP, you basically have three options if you want to grow your revenues: go out and win more customers, sell more to the customers you have, or try to do both. Whichever path you choose, you need a killer offer, and these days it’s tough to beat a Microsoft Teams service. Millions of businesses rely on Teams for productivity, which means the potential market is huge. And has become strategically critical: companies need it to perform with high reliability and zero friction.

This Month in Datadog: Reference Tables is generally available, Attacker Clustering, and more

Datadog is constantly elevating the approach to cloud monitoring and security. This Month in Datadog updates you on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events. To learn more about Datadog and start a free 14-day trial, visit Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog.

Kubernetes Monitoring: One view for observing all your storage volumes

If you want to observe your entire Kubernetes environment, you need visibility into all of your resources, including storage volumes. But monitoring Kubernetes storage hasn’t always been easy, especially if you wanted to see how it related to other parts of your infrastructure.

Using eBPF for modern IT observability: challenges and opportunities

Modern IT demands modern observability that flows with its dynamism and all-encompassing approach. Modern observability must overcome the constraints suffered by traditional monitoring due to its custom-built agent-based architectures. Monitoring tools converge poll-based methods with log analysis and application performance monitoring (APM), a process that can be slow and lacking in granularity that today's complex environments demand.

Simplify multi-cloud cost management with FOCUS and Datadog

When your cloud environment spans multiple cloud service providers (CSPs) and SaaS providers, it can be challenging to collect cost and usage data in a way that gives you complete visibility. Each provider formats its data according to a unique billing model, and these inconsistencies can leave you with fragmented information about your total cloud spend.