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We closed Q3 2025 with several important updates designed to make StatusHub even more reliable, flexible, and transparent for teams managing IT outage communication. Let’s take a closer look at what’s new.

We’re excited to share a major update to the StatusGator Help Center — redesigned to make finding answers and learning new features faster and easier than ever. We’ve reorganized our documentation, added new guides, and improved formatting so you can navigate with ease — whether you’re just getting started or managing advanced integrations.

The 2025 DORA report just surveyed nearly 5,000 technology professionals and delivered a verdict that should reshape how you think about AI investment: AI doesn’t create organizational excellence; it amplifies what already exists. For teams with solid foundations, AI is a force multiplier. For teams with broken processes and dysfunctional systems, AI magnifies the chaos.

Grafana Tempo 2.9 is now available, delivering MCP server support, TraceQL performance improvements, and more. Watch the video below to see the Tempo MCP server in action and learn how to speed up TraceQL metrics queries, or continue reading to get a quick overview of these and other updates. The Grafana Tempo 2.9 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

When the internet goes down, our primary job is to help everyone get back up, as fast as possible. Of the almost half a million incidents we've helped our customers solve, there are some which stand out for both their scale and impact. One of these happened on Monday, October 20, when AWS had a widely covered major outage in their us-east-1 region, from 07:11 to 10:53 UTC. We’re hosted in multiple regions of Google Cloud and so the majority of our product was unaffected by the outage.

We are proud to announce that Elastic has been named a finalist by the Technology & Service Industry Association (TSIA) in the 2025 STAR Awards program for Innovation in Customer Portals that Improve Digital Customer Experience. This award recognizes Elastic’s ability to embrace AI innovations to enhance our digital customer experience.

In my last blog, I’ve discussed a common problem: metrics like mean time to resolution (MTTR) mean nothing to business leaders. Celebrating a faster fix for an outage that still cost the company thousands in lost sales is a conversation that goes nowhere. You might as well be speaking a different language.

In my conversations about managing large, complex networks, one topic is now constant. The issue isn't budgets or new technology; it's about personnel. Specifically, it's the increasing difficulty of finding and retaining skilled professionals. If you are feeling this pressure, you are not alone. The search for technical talent is a universal challenge.