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Your APIs Are Green. Your Background Jobs Are Dying.

Launch Week Day 2: Introducing Discover Jobs Your dashboard looks perfect. APIs responding in 80ms. Error rates at 0.02%. Kubernetes pods healthy. Everything's green. Then Slack explodes: "Why didn't my invoice generate?" "Where's my password reset email?" "The data export I requested yesterday is still processing?" You check your job queue. Sidekiq dashboard shows 47,000 jobs processed today. Redis looks fine. Workers are running. But somehow, your business logic is silently falling apart.

Early Warning Signals now available via Webhooks

We’re excited to announce that Early Warning Signals — proactive alerts that notify you of potential service issues before official acknowledgment—are now fully supported in StatusGator Webhooks. With Early Warning Signals delivered through your webhook integrations, you can detect early signs of trouble and act before a full incident is posted. This means more time to prepare, fewer surprises, and better uptime for your customers.

Puppet Enterprise Installations with the Administration Module (PEADM)

In this real-time walkthrough, learn how to install and upgrade Puppet Enterprise using the Puppet Enterprise Administration Module (PEADM). This module helps you with admin and maintenance tasks and really helps you ensure that installations are consistently executed each and every time. Follow along from configuration to execution as Tony Green runs a monolithic installation example and provides an overview of the resources and options available to you.

Charting the Course: Your IT Roadmap for 2026

You may be thinking to yourself, "We're only just over halfway through 2025, is it really time to start thinking about next year?" and the simple answer is yes. Unlike Halloween decorations in July or Christmas decorations in August, it's never too early to start thinking about your plans for the next year. By getting a jumpstart now, you can better plan for goals, initiatives, and the ever-elusive IT budget.

SharePoint Vulnerabilities and Security Updates

SharePoint Vulnerabilities and Security Updates SharePoint is currently facing vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited, leading to guidance from Microsoft and CISA. An attack chain known as Tool Shell is taking advantage of CVEs, revealing new security risks. On-prem software poses significant threats as attackers can decrypt it. Mitigation involves applying updates and improving threat detection. Additionally, Exchange Server has a security update addressing five vulnerabilities, and users must switch from EWS to Microsoft Graph by October 2026.

Why Alert Fatigue is a Major Challenge in Observability (2025 Survey Insights) | Grafana Labs

Over 1,200 engineers, leaders, and teams shared their biggest observability challenges in our third annual Observability Survey — and the results are in. In this video, Marc Chipouras (Head of Emerging Products, Grafana Labs) breaks down the top insights: Thanks for watching!

Elastic Powers GitHub's Seamless Developer Experience

David Tippet, Search Engineer at GitHub, shares how Elastic powers GitHub’s massive search platform and enables a seamless developer experience. He explains how GitHub balances AI-driven semantic search with traditional keyword search, ensuring accuracy for millions of diverse users, from engineers to security researchers.

The Observability Problem Isn't Data Volume Anymore-It's Context

For years, the observability industry has been obsessed with one thing: data volume. We've built incredible pipelines, optimized agents, and scaled storage to handle petabytes of logs, metrics, and traces. The promise was simple: collect more data, get more visibility. But we've hit a wall.