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Highlights of another successful year of customer-centric collaboration Once again, our partnership delivered an impressive year of innovation with Microsoft Azure, Azure AI Foundry, and Azure OpenAI. This blog highlights our continued collaboration with Microsoft to better serve customers throughout 2025 and our key moments at Microsoft Ignite.

Over the past two decades, we’ve witnessed the instrumentation of virtually everything in the aerospace industry, from manufacturing floors to satellites orbiting Earth. And it’s no longer just NASA and other government organizations leading the charge. The commercial space industry has grown exponentially, with private companies developing everything from GPS satellites to electric VTOL aircraft.

The move by Let’s Encrypt from 90-day certificates to 45-day certificates is more than a policy shift. It changes how teams must manage renewals, detect failures, and validate that certificates are deployed consistently across distributed systems. A shorter lifecycle compresses the margin of error. Automation that previously limped along unnoticed now breaks on a far tighter schedule. And every misconfiguration hits users faster.

Reduce alert noise by 70% through intelligent aggregation, clear ownership boundaries, and filtering metrics that don't map to user-facing issues. Monitoring starts with a straightforward goal: understand your system's health and identify issues before users notice them. You set up metrics, create dashboards, and configure some alerts. At first, it works well. Over time, your stack gets bigger and more complicated. New services get added.

2025 was big! This year, we stopped talking about what Obkio could be and started showing what it is: a full network observability platform built for the networks you actually run. We released features that solve real problems. We showed up where network pros gather. And we proved that a Canadian-built tool can compete with anyone. Here's what happened.

On the morning of December 10, 2025, Microsoft Teams experienced a service disruption affecting users across Australia. Although Microsoft 365 users reported issues across several apps, the hardest hit service was Microsoft Teams which became completely unusable for many organizations. While Microsoft did not acknowledge the incident until 03:46 UTC StatusGator identified the issue at 02:52 UTC through incoming outage reports and delivered an Early Warning Signal at 03:01 UTC.