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Choosing the Right PHP Monitoring Tools: A Practical Guide

When it comes to building fast, reliable, and user-friendly PHP applications, performance and stability are everything. A small slowdown in load times, a memory leak, or unhandled errors can frustrate users, impact revenue, and harm your brand’s reputation. This is why PHP Application Monitoring has become a necessity for businesses of all sizes.

Honeycomb Launches Integration With the Anthropic Usage and Cost API

If your organization is anything like ours, then you’ve probably embraced using large language models like Claude. Just last week, we gave all Honeycomb employees access to Claude. Now, developers can generate AI-assisted code, product managers can perform analysis on customer usage trends, marketers can test messaging, sales can do customer discovery and we are shipping AI-powered features to improve user experience.

Scale Your Monitoring Solution With the VictoriaMetrics Ecosystem

When it comes down to scaling time series monitoring solutions things can get messy. That’s one of the reasons why VictoriaMetrics, a Silver member of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), started its journey some years ago. It is a simple, reliable and efficient set of Observability Solutions that's been adopted by many organizations. It's open source, with a strong community behind it, with enterprise and managed (Cloud) options for those who need support. VictoriaMetrics plays well with many standards, including Grafana and OpenTelemetry. Apart from that, in case you didn’t know, VictoriaLogs is the new kid in the block that's seriously outperforming other solutions. In this presentation, we’ll present the VictoriaMetrics Open Source projects and how they differ from other solutions, especially when it comes to scaling from single small setups to massive cluster deployments. Come learn how VictoriaMetrics projects can help to ease Observability!

The Starlink Outage and Its Impact on Community Gateways

Last month, Starlink suffered its largest outage in years, arguably its biggest since becoming a major internet provider. In addition to the millions of individual customers around the world, the outage disconnected the Community Gateways, customers of Starlink’s new transit service. In this post, we delve into the outage and its impact on these far-flung networks.

How to Effectively Monitor Kubernetes in 2025

As Kubernetes environments continue to grow in scale and complexity, having a robust monitoring strategy is no longer just good practice, it’s essential for survival. For engineering teams in 2025, effective monitoring and observability is the bedrock of performance, reliability, and cost control. This guide dives into the critical aspects of modern Kubernetes monitoring, from key metrics to the top tools/frameworks and the rising role of AI in managing these complex systems.

Building a K12 IT Command Center: Monitor All Your Educational Services

Managing technology in K-12 schools has become increasingly complex. With dozens of educational platforms, administrative systems, and communication tools running simultaneously, IT teams need a comprehensive k12 it monitoring dashboard to maintain visibility across their entire technology ecosystem.

Taming Alert Chaos: Modern Incident Alert Management Strategies

Every IT team knows the feeling: your phone buzzes at 3 AM with yet another alert. Is it critical? Can it wait until morning? With dozens of monitoring tools and hundreds of potential failure points, incident alert management has become one of the most challenging aspects of maintaining reliable systems.

Announcing the Winner of the 2025 StatusGator Women in Tech Scholarship: Lara Djukic

Earlier this year, we launched the StatusGator Women in Tech Scholarship to support and empower women pursuing careers in technology. We are thrilled to announce that our 2025 scholarship recipient is Lara Djukic, an inspiring young technologist whose vision blends innovation with a deep commitment to her community. Through the Bold.org scholarship platform, we’ve award Lara a $3,100 scholarship.