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In May 2026, StatusGator detected 854 Early Warning Signals across SaaS, cloud, developer, and infrastructure services. Of those incidents, 695 were never acknowledged by providers, while 159 were eventually confirmed on official status pages. Throughout the month, StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals continued to surface emerging outages before many providers published updates, giving teams valuable time to investigate and respond.

For network administrators, managing DNS has traditionally meant juggling zones and records across separate server interfaces, manually tracking changes, and responding to resolution failures after they’ve already caused disruption. We’re excited to introduce Microsoft DNS management in ManageEngine OpUtils, bringing DNS zone and record administration directly into the same console you already use for IP address management (IPAM).

Everyone wants an AI agent factory in 2026. Autonomous agents fixing bugs and shipping features while you sleep. I’ve been building toward that myself. But the error rates don’t support the fantasy. The best AI coding agents in the world fix about 50% of real bugs on SWE-bench verified. Half the time they fail. And AI-generated code produces 1.7x more issues than human-written code.

The VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack included two releases for VictoriaMetrics and a new LTS release for the VictoriaMetrics Operator in May. We’ve also published two detailed articles in the last few weeks: This release roundup covers updates for.

What is Exchange Online Archiving? Microsoft's EOA gives users an in-place archive mailbox - here's what it costs, what it covers, and where it leaves gaps.

OTT data from early 2026 shows streaming hierarchies holding steady while AI platforms reshuffled rapidly. Claude has substantially increased traffic since January, overtaking Gemini, and is on pace to challenge ChatGPT by fall. Doug Madory digs into the data in this new analysis.

Tempo started with a simple goal: make distributed tracing easier to run at scale. As tracing adoption has grown, however, so have the challenges, including higher data volumes, more complex architectures, and increasing demand for real-time insights directly from traces. Over the last year, we’ve been evolving Tempo’s architecture to meet that moment. And today, we’re sharing the results of those efforts with the release of Tempo 3.0.

Stay ahead of printer supply shortages, expand software inventory coverage, and maintain more accurate inventory records.

We're thrilled to announce that Cycle's European Control Plane is now live! While a few organizations have been utilizing it over the past month, we're eager to officially open access to all teams. Before diving deeper into the "why," let's clarify what a Cycle Control Plane actually is. If you visit our status page, you'll see a list of the core services powering Cycle. These services include everything from our APIs to our 'factory' build systems.