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In May 2025, several widely used platforms experienced outages affecting both enterprise and consumer services. With StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals, users were alerted to disruptions ahead of official announcements, helping teams respond faster and reduce downtime impact. Here are five major outages StatusGator detected in May.

Friction density (the number of stacked micro-frictions in a single session) is the predictor of abandonment we don’t talk about enough. And guess what? It beats any single UX metric by 2× when it comes to predicting lost sales.

In a microservices setup, tracking a single request across services quickly gets complex. One service calls another, then a third, and your logs don’t line up. The traceparent header carries context between services, so all parts of a request connect back to the start. For example, when a frontend sends a request to an API, which then calls a database service, traceparent it links those calls in the trace. Without it, you’re left guessing how requests flow.

Podman is a modern, open-source container engine developed by Red Hat that serves as a powerful alternative to Docker. It's designed with security, composability, and simplicity in mind. Here’s why it stands out.

I have a personal vendetta against “dashboards.” Not because they’re not useful—I actually think they’re extremely useful—but rather because they’re generally built with the wrong user in mind, then used by a completely different user, and for a different use case.

Are you looking for a Nagios alternative? Then you have come to the right place. In this blog, we will go through the top Nagios alternatives available today. But before that, let’s briefly look at what Nagios offers and why some teams might consider switching to another monitoring solution.

At SquaredUp, we’re obsessed with making monitoring not just powerful, but a genuinely delightful experience for engineers and teams. When we first built our Pingdom plugin, the goal was simple: make website uptime and performance data easy to visualize alongside everything else you care about. But as our users pushed the boundaries—connecting more endpoints, demanding richer insights, and needing faster troubleshooting—we realized our plugin needed to keep up.

Chat widgets are great for customer support, but they can wreak havoc on your automated tests. These floating elements often interfere with Playwright tests by covering clickable buttons, triggering unexpected popups, or causing element selection issues. If you've ever had a test fail because a chat widget appeared at the wrong moment, you're not alone. This guide shows you exactly how to block popular chat widgets like Drift, Intercom, Zendesk, and others during your Playwright test runs.

The demonstration of sustained excellence is ultimately more impressive and important than any individual breakthrough, though the former often go less celebrated. This week, however, Nexthink is extremely proud to celebrate that we’ve once again been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Tools. It’s a distinction we don’t take for granted—and one we’re honored to have maintained.

Syslog is a fundamental protocol for collecting messages and event data from various devices and applications across a network. Think of it as a universal language that allows your servers, routers, firewalls, and software to send their operational insights to a central logging point. Born from Unix systems, Syslog has evolved to become the industry standard, forming the backbone of effective log management and providing a unified view of your infrastructure's activity.