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Monitor metrics now available in the v3 API
Monitor metrics are now available through the StatusGator v3 API for both Website Monitors and Ping Monitors. These endpoints provide the same latency and performance data available in the Monitor Metrics tab, making it accessible through the API and MCP server. You can find the endpoints in the API documentation.
Uptime report endpoint added to v3 API
Uptime reports are now available through the StatusGator v3 API. This new endpoint provides the same uptime report data available in the StatusGator UI, making it easy to access uptime statistics programmatically through the API and MCP server. You can find the endpoint in the API documentation.
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Five things your logs will never tell you
A customer escalation hit my queue when I was on the customer smoke jumpers team at an observability vendor. My team was the group that parachutes into Fortune 500 accounts one bad week from churning and usually after a big customer outage. The customer had filed a billing dispute three weeks earlier and their on-call engineers were stuck. They had our full stack: logs, metrics, traces, end-to-end instrumentation, every product we sold and some we didn't. They could see the request came in. They could see it returned a 500. They could not see the body. The trace was sampled out. The log line was truncated at 4KB.
LocalXpose: The Best ngrok UDP Alternative in 2026 - Review
When you need to share a local project with the world, spin up a quick webhook receiver, or test an API, ngrok is usually the first tool most developers grab. It is reliable, familiar, and handles standard HTTP, HTTPS, and TCP traffic effectively. But if you have tried to build or test anything that relies on User Datagram Protocol (UDP) traffic, you have likely hit a roadblock. Out of the box, ngrok does not natively support UDP tunnels.
Beware of PII in Testing Data: The Security Iceberg and Where PII Actually Hides
If you run a platform tools or security team, you have likely heard this request from developers: “I just need a copy of the production database for staging so I can run realistic load and integration tests.” It is a completely reasonable request. Production traffic and data contain the actual request shapes, real-world value distributions, long-tail anomalies, and timing patterns that make tests useful.
Build WireMock mappings fast from real traffic
I’m a big fan of service mocking. I’ve been working in and around software for about 25 years, and one thing never changes: when you sit down to work on your code, you almost never have everything available. The database, the third-party API, the message queue, the service two teams over. Something’s missing. So you’ve got to stub it out or mock it out and keep moving.
Everything New in Checkly CLI v8 (8 Features in 4 Minutes)
We at Checkly shipped a major CLI v8 release. Here's everything new, and why it's built for your agent. The CLI v8 expands Monitoring as Code and streamlines your everyday workflows: Upgrade and try it: npm install checkly@latest Chapters.
Why API Reliability Is Critical to Modern Finance
Financial APIs power payments, compliance, and customer services. Learn why observability, monitoring, and API reliability are vital to resilience.