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Eight best practices for a successful cloud migration strategy

Moving to the cloud is one of the most consequential decisions an IT organization makes. A successful cloud migration strategy sets the foundation for how your business scales, innovates, and competes. But too often, cloud migration initiatives stall, underperform, or force organizations to repatriate applications back on-premises because the groundwork wasn’t laid correctly.

Alibaba Cloud monitoring: What changes when scale, speed, and cost collide

Alibaba Cloud monitoring isn't AWS or Azure monitoring with a different logo. The way its services scale, absorb load, and send early warning signals follows its own logic and if you're watching the wrong things, you'll find out too late. Cloud monitoring conversations often follow patterns set by AWS and Azure. The metrics are familiar, dashboards look the same, and operational playbooks are built around expected infrastructure behavior.

Troubleshooting website connection failures with website monitoring RCA

Every engineer has a story about the outage that came out of nowhere. One moment everything is green. The next, your monitoring dashboard lights up red, your inbox fills faster than you can read it, and somewhere a customer is staring at a blank screen wondering if your business still exists.

Troubleshooting website response time latency

Your dashboards may be telling a different story than what the customers are experiencing There's a version of a website problem that nobody talks about enough—the one where everything is technically fine. The site is up. The server is responding. No alerts have fired. And yet, somewhere out there, a user is watching a spinner rotate for the fifth second in a row, quietly losing faith in your product. This is what makes response time latency the most deceptive problem in web operations.

Overview of Custom Checks

In this video, we’ll walk you through on how to set up and configure your Custom Checks in Uptime.com. Learn how to effectively monitor your automations and processes using Uptime.com’s Custom Checks. This tutorial covers Heartbeat and Incoming Webhook checks, ensuring your tasks run smoothly and delivering instant alerts when issues arise. Discover how to set up and configure these checks to maintain optimal performance.

The Miasma worm explained: How it Hit Red Hat and Microsoft

Miasma has already hit Red Hat and 73 Microsoft GitHub repos. Here's how it works and what your team can do right now. Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, breaks down the Miasma worm – a self-replicating supply chain attack and evolved variant of Mini Shai-Hulud from threat group TeamPCP. Learn how Miasma uses the yo-yo attack method to move laterally across registries and workstations, why conventional scanners missed it, and the practical steps security teams can take today, including cooldown policies and continuous risk assessment.

Product Update - June 2026

IncidentHub's latest product update includes private status ingestion for Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365, a simpler UI for alerts configuration, an option to disable the public status page, and a better looking status page layout. Plus, support for more vendors (1070+ and counting). As always, I am grateful to all our customers and beta testers who have shared their feedback which has made IncidentHub better.