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Who decides how fast a critical patch goes out, and who signs off when a production server can't be restarted? For many IT groups, the answer is a mix of one senior admin's judgment, an old ticket and a shared spreadsheet. It holds up fine right until an auditor asks for proof, or that admin leaves. A written policy replaces that guesswork with rules people have agreed to. Owners are named, deadlines are fixed, and there's a plan for the system that can't be patched on time.

We're excited to share that Honeycomb has achieved yet another Amazon Web Services (AWS) Competency—the Resilience Technology Competency—which recognizes our ability to help customers detect, investigate, and recover from failures in production systems running on AWS. While receiving the competency designation is a fantastic recognition of the capabilities of the Honeycomb platform (we also received one in Financial Services earlier this year), it's ultimately not the point.

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 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.

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.

AI for IT operations is only as trustworthy as the telemetry beneath it. Learn what makes telemetry AI-ready and how to build a stronger foundation for Autonomous IT.

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.

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.