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When Palo Alto Networks announced its intention to acquire Embrace, my first thought wasn’t about Embrace itself. My first thought was that digital experience, including Digital Employee Experience (DEX), has officially become strategic. For years, DEX has often been viewed as something that sat on the edge of infrastructure monitoring, endpoint management, and service desk operations. Important? Absolutely. Strategic? Not always. This acquisition changes that conversation.

For 15 years, UptimeRobot has answered one question for millions of people: is my site up? Today we’re taking on a related question that’s become just as important: is everything my site depends on up? We’ve acquired IsDown, which tracks the status of more than 6,000 cloud and SaaS providers in one place. Here are the details on what it is, why we bought it, and what we’re building with it.

Helsinki, Finland — Aiven has acquired Flow AI, a company building infrastructure for production-grade analytical AI agents. The integration of Flow AI technology will accelerate Aiven's product roadmap and make it easier for customers to securely and scalably run production AI applications and agents next to their data.

Off-the-shelf models are easy to deploy, but they are rarely enough to solve complex, domain-specific challenges in production. The key to sustained AI value is not in the models themselves but in the ability to tune, evaluate, and refine those models against your organization’s real-time signals. We are excited to announce that Adaptive ML is joining Datadog to accelerate this vision by combining our deep observability data with their expertise in building specialized, high-performance AI agents.

Today I'm sharing some big news. IsDown is joining UptimeRobot When I started IsDown, the idea was simple. Keeping track of outages across dozens of vendor status pages was painful, and I wanted to make it easy to see, in one place, when the services you depend on go down. Thousands of teams now rely on IsDown to do exactly that. Joining UptimeRobot is the natural next step.

Today, we’re announcing that Dynatrace has signed an agreement to acquire Bindplane. The transaction is expected to close later this month, subject to customary closing conditions. This is an exciting step forward for our team. We’ll keep building, shipping, and supporting our customers and partners the same way we always have.

Today we're announcing that Sentry has acquired XcodeBuildMCP, an open source MCP server that gives AI agents the ability to build, test, and debug native iOS and macOS apps. XcodeBuildMCP has become a go-to tool for agentic Apple-platform development, with more than 4,000 GitHub stars and an active community. It unlocks the full developer loop: build, run, debug, interact, and verify, allowing users to stay in their preferred agentic development environment.

Generative AI enables teams to write and ship code faster than ever. But current methods for testing and quality assurance have not evolved to match the new pace and scale of deployments. Manual and deterministic testing paths quickly become obsolete when new features are released, and they fundamentally can’t test AI outputs, leaving a massive untested surface area. To keep up, teams need new testing methods that can define what goals users have, and ensure that their outcomes match.

In 2008, I was sitting in my garage office with a simple but stubborn idea: the Internet deserved better. End users deserved better. Companies needed a way to truly understand what their customers were experiencing, not just what their servers were reporting. Digital Experience Monitoring wasn’t a category yet. But the need was unmistakable. That idea didn’t come from theory or ambition. It came from lived experiences.