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If your API answers on QUERY, you can now point a monitor straight at it. QUERY joins HEAD, GET, POST, PUT, PATCH, DELETE, and OPTIONS in the HTTP method list for HTTP, keyword, and API monitors. You can find it under the “Advanced settings” when editing or adding your monitor. QUERY became a standard in June 2026 as RFC 10008. It’s safe, idempotent, and it carries a request body.

Icinga Director’s CLI commands have supported import sources and sync rules for a long time, which includes listing, checking and running them. Before Icinga Director v1.11.6 two things you couldn’t do from the CLI, though, were narrowing a health check down to a single object, or deleting an import source or sync rule without opening the web UI. I’ll walk through both, using examples.

Riya has managed IT operations at a mid-sized FinTech company for six years. She knows the infrastructure inside out: Every server, monitoring alert, and compliance requirement is owned by her team. So when Riya heard the engineering lead mention their new internal developer platform in a quarterly review, she assumed her team would be looped in eventually. This did not happen. Three months later, Riya's team was called in to investigate an outage.

Your payment API suddenly returns 503 errors. Within seconds, your infrastructure monitors, application checks, and dependency monitors begin generating their own alerts. And while the dashboards keep flashing, the clock is still running. Your customers are waiting, internal teams are asking for updates, and engineers are trying to separate the real problem from the noise before the situation gets worse.

When a service your organization depends on stops working, you need to know whether the problem is internal or caused by a third-party provider. Connecting StatusGator to Claude gives you a faster way to find out. You can ask Claude what is down, investigate provider incidents, review affected components, and analyze historical uptime using data from your StatusGator account.

For large enterprises, hybrid SAP landscapes are a long-term operating reality, not a transitional exception. It reflects a considered, risk-managed approach to transformation, and for most organizations the only realistic way forward.

The finance team sees the "Apache License 2.0" on the ActiveMQ download page and concludes the software is free. The engineering team knows the broker requires configuration, monitoring, tuning, CVE patching, and incident response. All of those things cost engineering time, whether or not a license fee appears on the invoice.

If you are leading technology strategy today, you face consequential choices about how to manage your enterprise telemetry. Your decisions determine not only where logs, metrics, traces, and events are stored, but also who controls how operational data is collected, shaped, governed, and put to work in an optimal way for the security, observability, analytics, and AI systems that power your business.

I spend most of my day in Claude Code these days. Most of my development processes changed after having access to my own personal assistant. In this post, I'll show you a real-life example of how bug fixes are often done on elmah.io now. I hope it will inspire someone to optimize their workflow and get even more out of their elmah.io subscription.