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When X (formerly Twitter) suffered a global outage on March 10-11, 2025, millions of users and businesses were left in the dark. Apart from a solitary post from CEO Elon Musk claiming a cyber-attack, X has remained silent. Yet Catchpoint’s Internet Sonar detected the crisis in real time—highlighting the critical role independent, proactive monitoring plays when vendor communication fails.

Last week, the FinOps Foundation released its latest installment of the State of FinOps report. This year’s theme: Cloud+. Fortunately for all of us, Cloud+ isn’t yet another streaming service to add to an already infinite list. In the FinOps Foundation’s parlance, Cloud+ refers to all the non-public-cloud spending — e.g., SaaS, AI — that you’d want to group under the broad umbrella of “cloud spending.”

You can now connect multiple Heroku apps to a single AppSignal instance with the AppSignal add-on. We've also improved our installation wizard to help you get up and monitoring even quicker, so you can start tracking your apps in no time.

Have you ever watched your JavaScript app fail in production and wondered, “What just happened?” OpenTelemetry JavaScript helps answer that question, in a practical way to track what’s going on under the hood. Let’s walk through how it works, why it’s useful, and how to set it up without unnecessary complexity. If you've ever struggled with vague logs and slow API calls, this is for you.

Auto instrumentation might sound like something from a music studio, but it's one of the most powerful tools in a developer's arsenal for gaining visibility into applications without tedious manual code additions. If you're tired of littering your codebase with custom traces and want a more elegant solution, you're in the right place.

That moment when your PHP application runs flawlessly on your local machine but crashes in production—we've all been there. The key difference between struggling with issues and resolving them efficiently often comes down to understanding PHP error logs. This guide will help you move from trial-and-error debugging to a structured approach for identifying and fixing problems faster.

We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to StatusGator: the Metrics tab on the monitor details page! Now, for both Website and Ping monitors, you can track vital performance data, including availability, downtime, and response time trends over the last 24 hours.

Middle market businesses operate in a unique space—they need to do more with less. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a SaaS platform, or a service-based website, customers of mid-market businesses expect fast-loading pages and smooth interactions—no matter where they are. Creating a seamless digital experience is essential for customer retention and revenue growth. But here’s the challenge: Website and application performance aren’t the same everywhere.

Monitoring is only as good as the alerts that surface critical issues before they spiral out of control. With InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise, you can extend alerting capabilities beyond built-in solutions by leveraging custom Python processing plugins. Whether you need real-time notifications when thresholds are exceeded or advanced anomaly detection tailored to your infrastructure, developing custom alerting logic ensures you get the right alerts at the right time.

We're excited to launch our new Reporting Dashboard, giving you a powerful command center to analyze your monitoring data and make data-driven reliability decisions.