Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Managing IT for Witherslack Group does keep me up at night sometimes. Keeping our data secure is an ongoing challenge. When I say our data is sensitive, I mean a breach could genuinely destroy lives. We care for some of the UK's most vulnerable children: young people who have experienced sexual exploitation, kids whose parents cannot know their location, children from backgrounds most people could not imagine.

Today, we are introducing some new on-call features: Add Gaps to on-call, Scheduled Layers, Handoff Days, and more. Flexibility in on-call schedules has been the single focus point in this release. These features give you much finer control over when people are on-call, how handoffs work, and what your schedule looks like around holidays and time off.

Today, we’re excited to announce our expanded partnership with Amazon, bringing together the power of Amazon Kiro, Amazon Q Developer, and Harness SaaS on AWS to revolutionize how your team builds, troubleshoots, secures, and deploys software. This collaboration is designed to deliver a seamless, intelligent, and scalable software delivery experience for all AWS customers.

In 2026, digital performance is more critical than ever. Users expect web applications to load instantly, respond flawlessly, and support complex interactions without delay. For DevOps teams, this means browser monitoring is no longer optional—it’s a foundational capability for ensuring availability, speed, and reliability across modern web experiences.

Looking for reliable Heroku monitoring in 2026? Start with the metrics that matter, pair Heroku’s built-ins with the right add-ons, and add alerts that catch issues before users do.

Running Kubernetes at scale almost always means paying for more compute than you need. To protect reliability, platform and application teams typically overprovision nodes early in development and keep scaling up as they add features and workloads. They are often reluctant to move to smaller or different instance types without a clear picture of how those changes will affect performance or availability. The result is a fleet of underutilized nodes that silently inflate your cloud bill.

For many engineering teams, an incident is a chaotic, all-hands-on-deck event. Once the incident is resolved, everyone returns to their regular work and the valuable lessons from the incident are often lost. The result is a cycle of repeated failures and engineer burnout, where incidents are something to be survived, not learned from. At Cortex, our mission is to help engineering organizations build a culture of continuous improvement.

We’re giving Bitbucket a fresh new look and more streamlined navigation as part of Atlassian’s broader visual system journey. Teams and workflows have improved, and Bitbucket is changing with them. Our goal is to make it faster to find your work, clearer to understand what’s happening, and more enjoyable to use every day—without disrupting what you already know and love. This update aligns Bitbucket with Atlassian’s modern, unified design, and will launch in early 2026.