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Rundeck/RBA 6.0: Modernizing the foundation your automation runs on

This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how PagerDuty’s Rundeck/RBA 6.0 recently announced in GA builds towards this vision.

More Resilience, Less Overhead: How to Modernize Disaster Recovery Testing

• Disaster recovery planning is essential for ensuring digital services remain online in the face of catastrophic failures or outages. When a major digital infrastructure outage occurs, systems need to be set up to automatically respond and restore functionality as quickly as possible. But no matter how in-depth your disaster recovery plan is, it’s still only theoretical until it’s thoroughly tested under realistic failure conditions, which is why testing is often mandated by leadership and regulators.

Monitor DigitalOcean in Grafana with MetricFire

Monitoring your DigitalOcean infrastructure just got easier. MetricFire now integrates natively with DigitalOcean, so you can connect your account and start streaming metrics from Droplets, Load Balancers, Managed Databases, and more directly into Grafana. No agents. No setup overhead. No dashboard stitching. Get full visibility into your DigitalOcean infrastructure from one dashboard, live in minutes.

LogicMonitor and Edwin AI: Autonomous IT for Hybrid IT Environments

Autonomous IT starts now with LogicMonitor and Edwin AI, built to help IT teams monitor complex hybrid IT environments, discover root cause faster, reduce downtime, and prevent incidents before they impact revenue or brand reputation. See how LogicMonitor brings AI-powered IT operations, observability, and incident prevention together for modern infrastructure teams.

How Norsk Tipping uses feature flags to govern their deployments

Norsk Tipping is Norway’s state-owned gaming operator, running 2,500 to 3,000 production releases a year across iOS, Android, web and backend systems. Like every regulated organisation at scale, the platform team has to hold two things in tension: maintain strict deployment controls that stand up to audit, and keep the path to production open so that 100 engineers can ship safely.

The Three Pillars Were Built for Humans

It was 2am and I was paying for the privilege. Something was on fire in production, and I’d done the modern thing: I pointed an AI agent at it. It ingested the dashboards. It read the logs. It walked the traces. Then it handed me back a beautifully formatted paragraph that said, in effect, “latency is elevated on the checkout path.” I knew that. The page told me that.

Unlocking efficiency with Merge Queues in Bitbucket Cloud now GA

Earlier this year, we launched Merge Queues in open beta to help teams automate, sequence, and validate pull request merges. During the beta period, we incorporated feedback from hundreds of teams to improve reliability and simplify configuration. Today, we are excited to announce that Merge Queues is generally available for Standard and Premium plans on Bitbucket Cloud.