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The StatusGator mobile app is here

We’re excited to launch the StatusGator mobile app for iOS and Android, designed to put outage alerts right in the palm of your hand. Your StatusGator status page is the central hub for your entire organization to view and understand the status of all your services. These pages have always been accessible on mobile. Now, with the dedicated app, end users of your status page can take the services they depend on with them and receive updates directly on their phones.

Top tips: Find the right answer in a sea of search results

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're looking at how to search the web more effectively and find the information you need faster. Searching the web can feel a little like playing hide-and-seek. You know what you're looking for is somewhere out there, but the internet has an impressive number of places to hide it.

Free vs. paid website monitoring: When should you upgrade?

Every growing business hits a moment of truth somewhere between "we just launched" and "we just lost a customer because our site was down for 40 minutes." It's then that you realize the free monitoring tool you set up six months ago—the one that felt more than adequate at the time—is no longer pulling its weight.

Building an AI-Powered Time Series Dashboard for Data Center Ops

AI demand is pushing data centers to get bigger, denser, and more distributed, while the data that runs them still often sits in different systems, slowing down operations and hampering efficiency. By leveraging a time series database like InfluxDB to create a single, unified telemetry layer, you can simplify your data stack, comfortably handle the high volume of data, and solve problems faster and more efficiently, helping to minimize waste and maximize efficiency, saving time, electricity, equipment, and money.

Telemetry Talks ep 7 - Beyond OpenTelemetry with anomaly detection

In this episode, we continue to dive into the workshop we hosted at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, together with our guest, Fred Navruzov, correlating OpenTelemetry with anomaly detection. Furthermore we explore how the VictoriaMetrics MCP server and skills bring AI-powered observability to your workflows. Learn how to detect anomalies faster and interact with your metrics, logs and traces using natural language.

High Bandwidth Usage on Firewalls: How to Diagnose & Fix It

If your network has been feeling sluggish, connections keep dropping, or you're getting alerts that don't point to an obvious cause, high bandwidth usage is one of the most common culprits and one of the hardest to pin down without the right visibility. The tricky part is that "slow network" can mean a dozen different things depending on where the congestion is actually happening.