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SharePoint .agent Files Stop Working March 2027: How to Upgrade
Microsoft ends.agent files in SharePoint and OneDrive after March 2027 (MC1511052). Upgrade paths, the new button, Teams re-add and an admin checklist.
How long does it take to replace every certificate after a CA distrust?
Last week we moved every certificate in one of our products to a new CA in 10 minutes. It was six certificates and 18 deployments. I said issuance was the part that slows down, because most CAs limit how fast you can order, and then I waved it off. A reader did the math for me. Some organizations run 30,000 certificates, they claimed, and that’s common at MSPs, telcos, and government agencies. Google Trust Services takes 100 orders an hour by default.
How to monitor Kafka Consumer Lag with an AI Agent?
TL;DR Managing Kafka consumer lag manually is time-consuming and error-prone. Today, we'll show you how to create a fully automated consumer lag monitoring agent in just 5 minutes using Aiven Managed Agents. This agent will monitor your Kafka services and send real-time alerts to Slack when consumer lag is high.
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5 AWS Logging Tips and Best Practices
If you're an Amazon Web Services (AWS) user, you're probably familiar with some of Amazon's native services available for logging and monitoring, such as CloudWatch and CloudTrail. With that said, log management can get complicated quickly, especially if you're dealing with a high volume of logs from AWS Lambda functions or a multi-cloud/hybrid cloud environment. In this blog, we'll introduce the basics of AWS logging along with five tips and best practices for optimizing your log management in AWS.
Help your Intercom AI agent answer outage questions with StatusGator
“Why aren’t my campaigns syncing to Salesforce?” “Your dashboard won’t load. Is something down?” When customers report a problem, your support team needs to understand whether it’s related to your product or a provider you depend on. Your AI support agent needs that context, too. By connecting StatusGator to Intercom through MCP, you can give Fin access to live status data and help it provide more useful answers during support conversations.
How to Run an On-Call Schedule in Microsoft Teams
If your company lives in Microsoft Teams, your on-call schedule should live there too. An on-call schedule in Microsoft Teams means anyone in a channel can see who is on call right now, reach that person with one mention, and trust that the answer is correct without opening a separate tool or a stale spreadsheet. This guide covers the options Teams gives you out of the box, where each one breaks down, and a step-by-step setup that works for engineering, IT and support teams of any size.
How We Protect Our JavaScript Agent, and How to Host It Yourself
On October 29, a web performance script started emptying Polymarket wallets. The script belonged to DebugBear, a performance monitoring service a lot like Request Metrics. Polymarket ran it to measure how fast its site loaded for real visitors. Scott Helme’s analysis shows that cdn.debugbear.com stopped serving DebugBear’s script. An nginx server answered in its place with a script built to drain Polymarket accounts.
The Secure PaaS Alternative: Keep the PaaS Experience, Run It on Your Own Cloud
Railway, Northflank and seven other developer platforms disclosed breaches in October 2026. Here is why a shared PaaS turns one breach into everyone's breach, how Qovery gives you git-push deploys while your apps and data run in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Scaleway account, and what Qovery still holds. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.
Filebeat filestream configs that pass test config but still fail
A Filebeat config can print Config OK and still exit on start, ship your multiline settings as event data, or send a whole log file to your stack twice. We found most of these while testing the Filebeat configs on our integration pages, then rebuilt each mistake, plus the migration traps around them, on Filebeat 8.19.23 and 9.5.5 to see exactly what happens.