StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals alerted customers to several notable service outages in October 2024. With advanced warning, our users could take proactive measures, minimizing the impact of downtime on their businesses. Here’s a summary of how our detection gave customers an edge over service disruptions, often notifying hours or minutes before the provider even acknowledged the issue.

The speed at which you respond to incidents can make or break user satisfaction, team morale, and business continuity. Whether it’s a server crash, a security breach, or a software bug affecting users, rapid and efficient incident management is key to maintaining a strong reputation and minimizing operational downtime. And while traditional manual responses have worked in the past, automated incident response is now paving the way for faster, smarter, and more efficient handling of these issues.

When it comes to building interactive, scalable, and data-driven websites and applications, you may consider a combination of PHP with MySQL. Integrating PHP as a server-side language with MySQL as a relational database allows for dynamic content generation, user authentication, form handling, and easier data management. In the article, we’ll explore several methods to connect PHP with a MySQL database, including the mysqli and PDO (PHP Data Objects) extensions.

The importance of regular database backup and recovery can be neither underestimated nor ignored. And since your data is subject to modification, the primary task is to ensure its safety and mitigate the risks of data loss. That’s why we have database backups at hand—and in this article, we’ll guide you through main types and key concepts of backups as related to SQL Server databases.

On the October episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy Garcia (VP of Technical Community and Open Source) covers unified Error Tracking, Security Operational Metrics, and a new Datadog Serverless feature for retrying or redriving failed AWS Step Functions executions directly from Datadog. Later in the episode, Shri Subramanian (Group Product Manager) spotlights Datadog LLM Observability’s native integration with Google Gemini. Also featured are our blog posts Operator vs.

In today's rapidly evolving technology landscape, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) has become a critical component for DevOps teams striving to maintain high-performing, reliable applications. This comprehensive guide explores everything modern DevOps teams need to know about implementing and optimizing their APM strategy.