July product updates
July was a busy month here at StatusGator! We rolled out several highly requested integrations and a few handy improvements to make staying on top of service issues even easier. Here’s what’s new.
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What is Observability? (in 60 seconds)
🐧🐝 Try Coroot fully #FOSS and check out the latest open source observability tips on our blog: https://t.ly/qBH9f
#opensource #linux #eBPF #observability #DevOps #Coroot #SREs #kubernetes #softwarelibre #freesoftware
140x Cheaper than Datadog: Observability for everyone
🐧🐝 Try Coroot fully #FOSS and check out the latest open source observability tips on our blog: https://t.ly/qBH9f
#opensource #linux #eBPF #observability #DevOps #Coroot #SREs #kubernetes #softwarelibre #freesoftware
AMER Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - July 2025
Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Host: Forrest Evans (Director, Product Management at PagerDuty) Rundeck by PagerDuty: A Swiss Army Knife of Automation.
EMEA Rundeck by PagerDuty Meetup - July 2025
Join us for an informal 1-hour virtual event where the open-source Rundeck by PagerDuty community comes together to share automation stories and use cases. Whether you're new to Rundeck or looking to elevate your automation game, this meetup is packed with valuable takeaways for everyone! Host: Martin Van Son, Automation Specialist & Strategic Solution Advisor at PagerDuty New OSS Dashboards & Enterprise ROI Plugin + Creating Rundeck Plugins with Claude Code.
You're Writing Code Wrong: Start Telling Better Stories with Git
What if your Git history could read like a great novel? In this talk from GitKon, Jason Gates (Senior Staff at Sandia National Labs) makes the case that software is storytelling...and Git is your medium. With references from The Hobbit to The Stormlight Archive, he shows how commit structure, messaging, and PR flow aren’t just best practices, they’re tools to help your team (and future you) understand what really happened.
The Platform Engineer's Playbook: Mastering OpenTelemetry & Compliance with Mezmo and Dynatrace
The rise of platform engineering has put a new team at the center of the developer experience. These teams are tasked with building the "paved road" for developers, which includes providing a robust, self-service observability stack. However, they face a dual mandate: provide a great developer experience and manage the ever-growing costs and complexity of the tools involved.
The MSP's DNS Security Checklist
DNS is one of the most important and most overlooked layers in your client’s infrastructure. As an MSP, you’re often the one who gets blamed when something breaks—whether you control the DNS or not. And while many DNS problems are silent, their consequences are loud: email failures, website outages, and frustrated clients. This DNS security checklist will help you proactively identify and fix DNS risks across all your client domains.
What's the easiest way to check my website's uptime?
Whether you're keeping a personal blog or manage a corporate site or online storefront, website downtime can cost money and can damage your reputation. Let alone when you're maintaining a bunch of different client sites. And while downtime can't always be prevented, it's really easy to at least keep track of things, and diagnose potential issues from there. So, let’s start with the easy part.
OnlineOrNot updates from June/July 2025
In this latest update, I'll walk you through a few features I added that will make working with uptime checks less noisy, an alerts integration with Teams, and a few behind-the-scenes changes that will finally let me build mobile apps for OnlineOrNot.