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The October 13, 2026 Microsoft 365 Global Secure Access Outage

Some users in Germany and the United Kingdom who reach Microsoft 365 through Global Secure Access (GSA) may have been unable to use Outlook, Outlook on the web, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Windows 365 Cloud PCs on October 13, 2026, according to Microsoft's service health updates as recorded by IncidentHub. Microsoft's final update records the start at 07:40 UTC and the end at 18:31 UTC the same day - about 10 hours 51 minutes - and narrows the geographic scope to Germany only.

Monitoring as Code with Icinga: Approaches, Tools and Trade-offs

Monitoring as code means defining hosts, checks, thresholds and notification rules in version-controlled files, and deploying them through review and automated validation, the same way infrastructure as code handles servers and networks. With Icinga you can do this with plain configuration files in Git, the Ansible collection maintained by NETWAYS, the Puppet modules maintained by Vox Pupuli, the Icinga Director, or the REST API from tools such as Terraform.

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring with Grafana Cloud

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM) in Grafana Cloud combines frontend observability, synthetic checks, and session replays with backend telemetry to give engineering teams an end-to-end view of customer experience. In this video, Senior Developer Advocate Marie Cruz gives an overview of DEM and a deep-dive demo of how it works in Grafana Cloud.

AI Agents Are Becoming Part of the IT Environment. They Need to Be Managed That Way.

Agent Studio for Edwin AI gives administrators one place to see which agents are available, understand what each one does, control which agents are enabled, and manage their access to MCP tools. See how Agent Studio brings clearer administration and governance to agentic IT operations.

October 2026 at Bindplane: First-class Gateways, three new destinations, and a three-tab Overview

Gateways are now a named resource in Bindplane with their own page, a guided setup, and a one-step migration for anything already running the Bindplane Gateway source. Around that we added destinations for CrowdStrike Falcon Next-Gen SIEM, Arize AX, and Arize Phoenix, gave the Overview page a third tab. Prefer to watch? The October Community Call is streamed live on YouTube. Watch " YouTube" on YouTube Watch.

Introducing Migration Benchmarks: every source we timed now converts in under an hour

The Coralogix migrations team has published what it measured. Since 2023 the team has moved more than 75,000 assets across 300+ migrations and onboardings, including a single migration of about 41,000 alerts. The new Migration Benchmarks page holds the figures by source, a calculator for your own migration and the causes of delay that post-migration reviews name most.