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When BGP becomes UX: The inside story of a SaaS routing decision gone wrong (or right)

Most operations teams trust their green dashboards. If the internal monitoring says everything is healthy, the app must be fine, right? But as the Internet keeps proving, what’s green inside the firewall can look red for customers outside of it. Sometimes, a single change in how web traffic moves can suddenly slow logins, disrupt websites, or hurt business results, even if everything looks fine inside.

September 2025 - Early Warning Signals

In September 2025, StatusGator Early Warning Signals identified dozens of outages across cloud, fintech, and education platforms. Many of these incidents were detected before providers acknowledged them — and in some cases, without any acknowledgment at all. We’ve highlighted several of the most significant outages as featured incidents, followed by a list of additional disruptions reported throughout the month.

Reality Bytes: Our Everyday AI Use (Personal & Professional)

The Reality Bytes team is back together again! Tim, Tom, Megan, Dina and Sean swap stories of how AI has reshaped their personal and professional lives and habits over the past year—from eerie chatbot encounters and creative breakthroughs to frustrations with hallucinations and the hunt for the true “human fingerprint.”

How to know your data with Cribl's Ed Bailey and VisiCore Technology's Paul Stout.

Classifying and tagging data is the key to automating pipelines and improving visibility across the enterprise. We’ll share both the technical and business impact of truly knowing your data, and why Cribl makes it possible. Plus, we’ll talk CriblCon and why we’re excited to see you there.

Monitor Slurm with Datadog

Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source workload management system used to schedule jobs and manage resources for high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. It ensures that jobs and resources are scheduled fairly and efficiently and is scalable across large clusters, an issue that native Linux process management tools struggle with.

The Importance of Community Knowledge in Tech

Tools alone aren’t enough. How you use them and the expertise you tap into make all the difference. In this Short, we explore why even the best tools need the proper guidance to unlock their full potential. Open-source communities are goldmines of knowledge and support Connecting with experts can save you serious time and headaches While enterprise support is valuable, the community often has your back. Get practical tips to get the most out of your tools, and remember: it’s not just what you use; it’s how you connect, learn, and grow along the way.

Easiest Way to Ship Docker & Nginx Logs to Loki with Promtail

Effective monitoring catches problems before users do, and with Promtail, Loki, and LogQL, it’s a lightweight, approachable option for any DevOps team. This guide shows how to monitor Docker itself (pull failures, restarts, health flaps) so you’ve got a baseline on container runtime health.

How to check CPU usage on Linux

When your Linux system feels sluggish, one of the first things to investigate is the CPU usage. The CPU (Central Processing Unit) is the brain of your machine, and if it’s overloaded, everything else slows down. In this guide, you’ll learn different ways to Linux check CPU usage with command-line tools, how to interpret the metrics, and why automatic monitoring with Icinga ensures long-term system stability.