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Move to ManageEngine Site24x7 to elevate your website monitoring

Organizations using entry-level tools face limited visibility, slow issue response, and scalability challenges that increase downtime risks. ManageEngine solves this with its enterprise-grade, AI-powered platform, delivering end-to-end digital experience monitoring in cloud and On-Premise versions. Switching isn't only easy, it brings predictive intelligence, global precision, and seamless growth support to your workflows—protecting your revenue while improving your operational excellence.

YouTube Outage (Feb 17, 2026). What Happened?

On February 17, 2026, YouTube went down for users worldwide. Starting around 8:00 PM ET, the platform's homepage, Shorts feed, sign-in system, smart TV apps, YouTube Music, and YouTube Kids all stopped working. Over 21,000 reports were logged on IsDown alone. The error message was the same everywhere: "Something went wrong." For consumer users, it was an inconvenience. For businesses that depend on YouTube — content teams, advertisers, media companies, live streamers — it was a blind spot.

Introducing: Checkly Agent Skills

AI coding agents are excellent at writing code. Ask Claude Code, Codex, or Cursor to add a feature, and it just works. At Checkly, we were ready for the new agentic world from the start! Monitoring as Code means your entire monitoring setup lives in your repository. API Checks, Browser Checks, alert channels, status pages; everything is defined in code, managed with the Checkly CLI, and version-controlled like any other part of your stack.

Improve performance and reliability with APM Recommendations

SREs and application developers rely on telemetry data to understand and improve their systems. As organizations scale and evolve, those systems generate an ever-growing volume of metrics, logs, and traces. But more data alone does not make it easier to improve performance or reliability: Identifying meaningful optimizations still requires careful investigation and analysis.

AI Query Assist for SolarWinds SQL Sentry

Rewrite inefficient SQL Server queries in seconds—not hours. In this demo, we show you how AI Query Assist in SolarWinds SQL Sentry transforms the way you tune performance. Watch how to take a problematic query from the "Top SQL" view and use generative AI to instantly generate optimized rewrites and uncover missing indexes. What you will see: Instant Optimization: How to automate query rewriting and get plain-language explanations of the logic changes.