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We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to StatusGator: the Metrics tab on the monitor details page! Now, for both Website and Ping monitors, you can track vital performance data, including availability, downtime, and response time trends over the last 24 hours.

Middle market businesses operate in a unique space—they need to do more with less. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a SaaS platform, or a service-based website, customers of mid-market businesses expect fast-loading pages and smooth interactions—no matter where they are. Creating a seamless digital experience is essential for customer retention and revenue growth. But here’s the challenge: Website and application performance aren’t the same everywhere.

Monitoring is only as good as the alerts that surface critical issues before they spiral out of control. With InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise, you can extend alerting capabilities beyond built-in solutions by leveraging custom Python processing plugins. Whether you need real-time notifications when thresholds are exceeded or advanced anomaly detection tailored to your infrastructure, developing custom alerting logic ensures you get the right alerts at the right time.

We're excited to launch our new Reporting Dashboard, giving you a powerful command center to analyze your monitoring data and make data-driven reliability decisions.

Oh Dear is the underdog in the website monitoring software space. We’re a small player in a market dominated by big, well-funded competitors. And yet, we’ve built a solid user base and created a profitable SaaS business. But how did we do it? And more importantly, what worked, and what didn’t? This is our honest story about marketing Oh Dear, our lessons learned, and the strategies that helped us grow.

In my role in product management, I get the opportunity to meet with network operations professionals in a range of organizations. When I ask them about the challenges they’re facing, their responses can largely be summed up in one word: complexity.

At Grafana Labs, we’re always searching for ways to develop products that give our users the best tooling to help in their day-to-day understanding of their systems. We built OnCall and Incident in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform, to make it easier to respond to and fix incidents — all on top of the Grafana dashboards you know and love.

At Grafana Labs, we believe in treating everyone with respect, and a core aspect of respect is clear and transparent communication. When we decided to move Grafana OnCall (OSS) into maintenance mode, we knew that along with the public announcement, there would be a lot of questions.