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Quick Answer: Web transaction monitoring is a type of synthetic monitoring that uses scripted browser tests to simulate and validate multi-step user workflows, such as logins or checkouts. It proactively checks application functionality and performance from end-to-end, ensuring critical user journeys work correctly before customers are impacted.

The European directives NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive 2) and Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive have rapidly sharpened the conversation around digital resilience. While many organizations initially viewed these directives as an extension of their cybersecurity obligations, it is becoming increasingly clear that much more is at stake. These directives require a strategic transformation in how organizations manage risks, processes, and responsibilities.

Sometimes the biggest challenges in software aren’t about code — they’re about consensus. What do we call things? What do we standardize? And how do you evolve a system that thousands of companies depend on without breaking everything along the way?

The things that separate a minimum viable product (MVP) from a production-ready app are polish, final touches, and the Pareto 'last 20%' of work. Most bugs, edge cases, and performance issues won't show up until after launch, when real users start hammering your application. If you're reading this, you're probably at the 80% mark, ready to tackle the rest.

Enterprises have never had more access to artificial intelligence and less certainty about what it is delivering. Generative AI tools now sit inside everyday workflows, embedded across productivity software and operational systems employees rely on for critical work. They generate insight at scale, reveal patterns more clearly than before, and offer earlier visibility into potential risk.

Here’s a question that sounds simple but isn’t: When something breaks in your environment, how long does it take your team to agree on what they’re looking at? Not how long it takes to fix it—that’s a different problem. I mean: how long does it take for everyone on the bridge to have the same basic understanding of what’s broken, where it started, and what it’s affecting?

When you have a lot of websites, SSL certificate expiration monitoring can be a lot of work, especially without using a certificate authority such as Let's Encrypt. The last thing you want is an outage because a random SSL certificate wasn't set to auto-renew and expired! Honeybadger has your back! That's why we added SSL certificate warnings to our existing uptime monitoring feature.

On February 10, 2026, Claude users around the world began reporting service failures affecting chat sessions, API integrations, and Claude Code workflows. The first verified outage report reached StatusGator at 19:33 UTC. StatusGator issued an Early Warning Signal at 20:24 UTC. Claude did not post an official “Investigating” update until 22:11 UTC. This incident clearly demonstrates the gap between real user impact and official status page updates.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re tackling a growing challenge for modern professionals: organizing digital workspaces in an era where files, apps, and notifications constantly compete for attention. As work becomes increasingly cloud-based and collaborative, a cluttered digital environment can slow teams down, create confusion, and impact productivity. The good news?