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The October 13, 2026 Microsoft 365 Global Secure Access Outage

Some users in Germany and the United Kingdom who reach Microsoft 365 through Global Secure Access (GSA) may have been unable to use Outlook, Outlook on the web, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Windows 365 Cloud PCs on October 13, 2026, according to Microsoft's service health updates as recorded by IncidentHub. Microsoft's final update records the start at 07:40 UTC and the end at 18:31 UTC the same day - about 10 hours 51 minutes - and narrows the geographic scope to Germany only.

Monitoring as Code with Icinga: Approaches, Tools and Trade-offs

Monitoring as code means defining hosts, checks, thresholds and notification rules in version-controlled files, and deploying them through review and automated validation, the same way infrastructure as code handles servers and networks. With Icinga you can do this with plain configuration files in Git, the Ansible collection maintained by NETWAYS, the Puppet modules maintained by Vox Pupuli, the Icinga Director, or the REST API from tools such as Terraform.

Cycle MCP 2026.10.14.02: Server Configuration, Shared File Systems, and a Clearer View of Capacity

The first update to the MCP server since launch is out now, and the theme this time is servers. Your AI assistant can now change a server’s host-level settings, set up shared file systems for your containers, and show you what’s running on each machine and how much room is left.

SIGNL4 Update: AI-Powered Event Routing, Alert Analytics, On-Call Coverage & More

This October, SIGNL4 is taking a big leap forward! One of our most comprehensive updates yet introduces AI-powered event routing, powerful new analytics to identify alert hotspots and trends, and instant visibility into on-call coverage gaps. Add smarter team and workflow management, plus enhanced security and compliance features, and there’s plenty to explore!

We gave cloud agents a phone to QA

Our cloud agents now test mobile pull requests on cloud simulators and leave screenshots and a recording behind. The agent collects the evidence, and a person decides whether the change is right. More and more of the code in that app is written by coding agents. Of the 144 pull requests opened against it in the last two weeks, 99 were opened with Claude Code or Cursor. The agents are good at writing the change. What they couldn't do was show it to you.

AI Agents Are Becoming Part of the IT Environment. They Need to Be Managed That Way.

Agent Studio for Edwin AI gives administrators one place to see which agents are available, understand what each one does, control which agents are enabled, and manage their access to MCP tools. See how Agent Studio brings clearer administration and governance to agentic IT operations.

From bug report to verified fix in a single workflow

Most debugging content shows one feature in isolation. This walkthrough covers the whole path. The bug: a discount code stopped applying for customers on annual billing plans. It passed every existing test, worked for monthly accounts, and failed only for a subset of real annual customers. Nobody had reproduced it outside production. Here's how it went from ticket to verified fix.

October 2026 at Bindplane: First-class Gateways, three new destinations, and a three-tab Overview

Gateways are now a named resource in Bindplane with their own page, a guided setup, and a one-step migration for anything already running the Bindplane Gateway source. Around that we added destinations for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Arize AX, and Arize Phoenix, gave the Overview page a third tab. Prefer to watch? The October Community Call is streamed live on YouTube. Watch " YouTube" on YouTube Watch.

Introducing Migration Benchmarks: every source we timed now converts in under an hour

The Coralogix migrations team has published what it measured. Since 2023 the team has moved more than 75,000 assets across 300+ migrations and onboardings, including a single migration of about 41,000 alerts. The new Migration Benchmarks page holds the figures by source, a calculator for your own migration and the causes of delay that post-migration reviews name most.