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In early February 2025, reports emerged of a sophisticated web skimming attack that compromised the UK website of electronics manufacturer Casio, and at least 16 other ecommerce sites. This Magecart-style breach led to the theft of customers’ personal and payment information, highlighting the persistent threat of digital skimming to online retailers. Image Source: Casio UK Website.

Today we're introducing groups for your status page sections, bringing a new level of organization to your service monitoring. You can now create logical groupings of related services within each section, making your status pages even more structured and easier to navigate.

With employees working from home, often relying on personal Internet connections and consumer-grade equipment, IT teams face a new set of challenges in ensuring seamless connectivity. Unlike traditional office environments, where networks are controlled and optimized, home networks are unpredictable and prone to a variety of issues – from slow Internet speeds to intermittent connectivity.

Hybrid cloud services have become a cornerstone for many businesses. These technologies, which combine the strengths of private and public clouds, assist enterprises in achieving their dreams of scalability, flexibility, and cost-efficiency. However, this added optimization comes at a cost, particularly with increased operational complexity and security concerns. To minimize cyber threats and secure their data, businesses must invest in more security solutions, such as log monitoring.

Imagine you’re a product manager at a B2B SaaS company. Monday morning, a frustrated client floods your inbox—their workflows were disrupted by a slowdown you could’ve caught sooner with better user insights. Now, imagine running an e-commerce store on Cyber Monday. Traffic surges, but abandoned carts spike. Your RUM dashboard reveals slow mobile checkouts. A quick fix saves thousands in sales.

We’ve supported syncing your metrics from Kinesis Streams, Amazon’s streaming data platform, for several years. Kinesis Streams helps you gather and process streaming data which can then be monitored in your Hosted Graphite account. Recently, we’ve added support for Firehose, a fully managed and scalable service that allows users to stream data to destinations like Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3), Amazon Redshift, or Amazon Elasticsearch Service (Amazon ES).

Ensuring that your web applications run smoothly and securely is essential. NGINX, known for its high performance and scalability, plays a key role in delivering web content. But to keep everything running efficiently, you need to monitor and analyze its logs properly. This guide will walk you through how to configure, analyze, and make the most of NGINX logs to stay on top of your server’s health.

For system admins and developers, being able to track error logs in real time is crucial. It’s not just about fixing problems; it’s about keeping everything running smoothly, ensuring systems perform at their best, and catching issues before they snowball into bigger ones. This guide breaks down the tools and commands that make real-time log monitoring easier and more effective, offering more than just the basics.

The demand for seamless user experiences and robust system reliability is at an all-time high, and businesses are racing to meet these expectations. But as system complexity increases, traditional monitoring tools are falling short. Observability offers a paradigm shift. It goes beyond tracking metrics and provides deep insights to understand the “why” behind system behavior by parsing and contextualizing unstructured data.