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One of the most common infrastructure changes Java developers and operators are dealing with today is the migration from Oracle Java to OpenJDK. The reason is the licensing changes made by Oracle and the maturity of the OpenJDK distributions. The migration process is quite simple: replace the JDK, recompile the code, and redeploy the application. However, the differences between the two runtimes can lead to unexpected issues that are not caught by unit tests.

Distributed tracing doesn’t just show you what happened. It shows you why things broke. While logs tell you a service returned a 500 error and metrics show latency spiked, only traces reveal the full chain of causation: the upstream timeout that triggered a retry storm, the N+1 query pattern that saturated your connection pool, or the missing cache hit that turned a 50ms call into a 3-second database roundtrip.

Our documentation, FAQ, and blog posts can now be served as clean markdown to AI agents. Send Accept: text/markdown or append.md to the URL, and you get structured content instead of a full HTML page. It worked great in development. Then we deployed, and two separate caching layers broke everything.

Join our network heroes for a high-stakes chase inside modern networks where threats hide in plain sight, moves laterally, triggers no alerts, and exposing why visibility matters.

Leverage AI to understand critical incidents in your IT infrastructure! With Applications Manager's AI driven alarm summaries, understand incident cascades to dig down to root cause of performance issues. Reduce cognitive labour and unlock actionable intelligence with the latest version.

Cloud observability is a must for IT teams operating in modern digital economies. It allows administrators to see inside complex systems, understand how each component behaves under real conditions, and act before users or regulators feel the impact. In simple terms, observability transforms digital infrastructure from a black box into a transparent, accountable, and resilient system.

Slow loading times, frustrated clicks, and silent crashes can cause users to leave your app in just three seconds.

We shipped a small improvement to monitor filtering to make it easier to stay organized — especially if you’re managing a board with a lot of monitors.

On February 10, 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage that triggered widespread reports of CloudFront failures and DNS resolution issues. While AWS later acknowledged the incident, StatusGator detected the disruption earlier using Early Warning Signals, giving customers valuable lead time before the provider confirmed anything publicly.