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Welcome to a new blog series where we take a candid look at the predictions, insights, and bold claims we've made in previous SRE Reports and ask the uncomfortable question: How did we do? For the uninitiated, Catchpoint's SRE Report is our annual, practitioner-driven effort to capture the pulse of the global reliability community.

React Native apps straddle two worlds: JavaScript powering your UI and native modules running underneath. Add in backend services, and when something goes wrong, there are many possible culprits. Was it JS logic, the native bridge, the native API call, or a downstream API call? Most tools give you parts of the picture. A crash tool can tell you where the app failed but not what else happened in a session.

For large and rapidly evolving environments, minor oversights can snowball into bigger performance and security issues—making logging devices manually unrealistic.

When SaaS tools go down, teams need fast, reliable alerts right where they communicate. Now, with the StatusGator integration for Discord, you can receive real-time third-party outage alerts directly in your server. Whether you’re monitoring the status of AWS, Slack, GitHub, or Google Workspace, StatusGator keeps your team informed instantly when disruptions happen.

As up to 2 million Cisco devices face active exploitation, automated SecOps response becomes essential.

Your team just deployed to production. The infrastructure spun up in 90 seconds, but recreating your monitoring? That’ll take hours. It’s added late in the process, managed through dashboards, and prone to inconsistency. Short-term, this slows delivery and creates visibility gaps that surface only during incidents. Long-term, it leaves a business-critical capability out of your observability pipeline.

Observability has come a long way from its origins in monitoring logs and metrics. Today, it sits on a maturity curve: Organizations move from fragmented tool stacks to unified platforms to proactive engineering practices that tie reliability to business outcomes. To better understand where IT leaders are on this curve, Grafana Labs surveyed 150 decision-makers across industries in advance of ObservabilityCON 2025.

SquaredUp's existing notifications fire when monitors change state. With Notification API, you control the trigger. Send dashboards on a schedule, before meetings, or on-demand through chat commands. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to automate sending SquaredUp dashboards to Slack. I’ll use Power Automate as the example, but the same approach works with other automation tools such as Zapier, Make, n8n, or even a custom script, as long as it can send an HTTP request.

Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how businesses interact with users, automate workflows, and deliver insights in real time. But as powerful as these models are, running them at scale comes with unique challenges, from hallucinations and latency spikes to cost overruns and user trust issues.