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When troubleshooting complex software, it’s important to be able to gain insight via its telemetry quickly and precisely. No one wants to waste time switching between tools or worrying about how to interact with different types of data. At Honeycomb, all your data is available in one place, accessible via our fast query engine. But what does that look like in practice?

I still remember the working with a leading insurance provider on an internal review of their IT estate and discovering a team quietly using an unapproved SaaS tool to speed up their reporting. It wasn’t malicious, they were trying to solve a problem faster. But as we stared at the dashboard, I could see the CIO’s mind racing: What data had they uploaded? Was it encrypted? Were they still compliant?

We’ve introduced a new type of Performance Issues, Web Vitals Performance Issues. These issues will be opened for the highest opportunity pages in your application if your Web Vitals metrics drop into our meh, or poor thresholds for performance. We’ve built these issues with Seer Issue Fix specifically in mind. Our goal is to not just alert you about low vitals scores, we want to give you actionable steps you can take to improve your scores and, when possible, fix the problem for you.

Fleet management is the practice of monitoring and configuring your fleet of agents and collectors. Key functionality includes: Fleet management is the hallmark of an organisation that has realised the great importance of a healthy telemetry pipeline, and has taken steps to ensure that collectors & agents are every bit as robust as the production architecture for which they are responsible.

As we wrap up 2025 and slowly come down from the re:Invent high, we’ve got one more reason to keep the celebration going. Coralogix has earned 192 badges in the G2 Winter 2026 reports and secured the position in the Momentum Grid Report for Observability Software. It is a strong finish to the year and a clear reflection of the steady progress the platform has been making.

Between October 20 and December 5, 2025, a rapid succession of major outages across multiple cloud providers disrupted large portions of the internet. Each of these events affected StatusGator in different ways. After each incident, we implemented improvements to strengthen our reliability. This post summarizes the impact of each outage, the changes made, and the architectural work now underway to ensure StatusGator remains available during the moments when it is needed most.

On December 5, 2025, the internet faced another major disruption – the second significant Cloudflare-related outage in just a few weeks. A similar widespread incident occurred on November 18, which we covered in detail in our post The internet broke again – StatusGator can help. Today’s outage reinforces how quickly issues within core internet infrastructure can ripple outward and impact thousands of services simultaneously.

Search for Downdetector alternatives on Google, ask ChatGPT or any AI assistant, and you’ll usually get a list of tools like Datadog, Site24x7, New Relic, Atera, and other monitoring platforms. There’s just one problem: The AI-generated answers continue to lump these monitoring tools together, creating confusion for IT teams and muddying the category. This article exists to set the record straight.

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) continues to evolve to meet modern infrastructure needs. With SCOM 2025, released in November 2024, Microsoft introduced major updates for security, compatibility, and platform support. Now, Update Rollup 1 (UR1) builds on that foundation with critical fixes and enhancements.

Metrics, analytics, measurements, and parameters – can we truly see these abstractions? Data visualization helps us do just that, bridging the gap between raw information and human comprehension. Visualizing data is like rafting down a river – dynamic, unpredictable, and full of discoveries along the way. In this guide, we’ll explore how to craft visualizations that inform, engage, and inspire. So, grab your paddle and hop aboard!