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How OnPage Eliminates Alert Noise for IT Ops Teams in 2026

IT Ops teams face two failures that pull in opposite directions: responders interrupted so often that they stop reacting, and a truly critical alert lost inside that same flood. Alert noise and alert fatigue describe those two problems, and treating them as one usually makes both worse. This article shows how to reduce interruptions without making critical incidents easier to miss.

Troubleshooting a Blockchain App Outage Across Five Failure Layers

A blockchain application can stop working while the chain beneath it continues finalizing blocks. A frozen balance may come from an indexer running behind. A failed transaction may never have reached a remote procedure call (RPC) endpoint; an absent signing prompt points toward the wallet or interface. During an incident, start with scope rather than the most visible symptom. Confirm what still works, then test from the public chain toward the user interface. One broken access path should not be mistaken for a network-wide halt.

Creating Message Templates in OnPage

Learn how to create and configure a message template in OnPage to make critical communication faster, more consistent, and easier for your team. OnPage message templates are predefined message formats that help teams standardize frequently used communications without having to compose every alert or message from scratch, and can be pulled up on both web message dispatcher and OnPage's phone app. In this step-by-step tutorial, we show you how to navigate to Settings then Template, create a new message template, and configure the information users will see when that template is selected.

Suppressing OnPage Notifications During Maintenance

Learn how to suppress OnPage notifications during a scheduled maintenance window so your on-call team isn’t unnecessarily alerted while planned work is underway. OnPage’s Suppress Notifications option temporarily prevents notifications from being sent during a defined period. This is especially useful during scheduled maintenance, planned downtime, testing, or other known activities that could otherwise generate unnecessary alert noise.

How Facilities Management Supports Business Continuity and IT Resilience

When organizations build business continuity plans, they usually focus on software backups and cyber threats, while ignoring the physical building itself. But a single power fluctuation, HVAC failure, or roof leak can shut down critical IT assets just as fast as a digital attack. Facilities management bridges the gap between physical infrastructure and digital uptime. This guide breaks down how proactive building systems protect your technology, minimize expensive operational disruptions, and turn theoretical recovery plans into daily operational defense.

How to Build a Self-Improving Operations System in 5 Steps

With AI agents and AI-generated code becoming the norm in modern enterprise software, backend systems are evolving faster than ever. And it’s leaving most operations teams with an impossible choice: burn out senior talent on repetitive firefighting, or hand production over to untrained AI agents. With disruptions costing enterprises an average of $300,000 per hour, manual firefighting isn’t an option.

Sending HighPriority Messages from OnPage's Dispatcher

See how OnPage Dispatcher helps teams centralize and streamline time-sensitive communication. In this demo, a request is created in Dispatcher, routed to the appropriate on-call specialist, and tracked through acknowledgment and response. We also show how the communication is bi-directional, and responses can be seen within the dispatcher, with a complete audit trail.

Proofpoint outage on August 14, 2026: DNS failure disrupts email worldwide

A DNS failure at Proofpoint broke email delivery for organizations around the world on August 14, 2026. Records for pphosted.com stopped resolving, so inbound and outbound mail routed through Proofpoint bounced or stalled for nearly four hours. StatusGator flagged the incident with an Early Warning Signal at 12:48 UTC, about an hour before Proofpoint acknowledged it publicly on its status page at 13:50 UTC. Here is what happened, who it hit, and how some teams kept mail moving.