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Today, we’re excited to announce Gremlin Private Edition, a version of Gremlin that you can run entirely within your own private network.

Even at Sentry, we're not immune to downtime. In a moment of "oh-the-irony," we once took down our own application with a bad migration. We were adding a field to a critical database table, and the migration locked it completely. Since this table was essential to Sentry’s operation, the entire app went down. The website wouldn’t load, ingestion paused—everything ground to a halt.

Great news for all VMware users! NiCE just rolled out VMware Management Pack 5.8 for Microsoft SCOM, bringing full support for VMware vSphere 8.0.1, 8.0.2, and 8.0.3. This update keeps your monitoring sharp and up-to-date with the latest VMware environments. Plus, we’ve polished up the docs to make life easier. If you’re an existing customer, this update is ready for you! Stay ahead of the game and keep your virtual environments running smoothly!

Cut your traditional NAT gateway costs by 70% or more with Megaport’s new software solution. For large businesses, Network Address Translation (NAT) is a must. But when speaking with our enterprise customers about the software side of their architecture, the complaint was always the same: The ballooning egress fees that come with moving massive amounts of data quickly become a major cost burden.

In November 2023, we released Grafana Beyla 1.0, the first major milestone in our pursuit of zero-code (and zero-effort) eBPF instrumentation. We delivered a way — through a single command-line — to automatically instrument any application supporting HTTP/gRPC protocols, as well as provide basic network packet flow information.

Today we are happy to announce that we released Icinga for Windows v1.13.0 a couple of days ago. We have already talked about the changes coming to v1.13.0 with the beta blog-post last year in more depth, and will focus only on some core changes here.

Until recently, Checkly was telling you what broke in your app. Now, it can also tell you why it broke. We're excited to announce the general availability of Checkly Traces, a new addition to our synthetic monitoring platform that bridges the gap between frontend monitoring and backend observability. By combining synthetic monitoring with distributed tracing, Checkly Traces empowers development teams to detect, diagnose, and resolve issues faster than ever before.

Imagine this: You push a major update to your website, confident that everything looks great. Hours later, traffic plummets. Your users complain about slow load times, but when you check WebPageTest, everything seems fine. What’s missing? Real-time insights and proactive monitoring.

Managing incidents just got a whole lot easier. With our latest update, you get better visibility, smarter filtering, and a seamless way to collaborate with your team – right inside UptimeRobot. You can now access all incidents in one place under the new Incidents tab in the left sidebar. FYI: Some of our best improvements come directly from you—like the ability to add comments and make incidents searchable. We listen and we don’t judge—do you have an idea?

Providing rich context for monitor alerts is an essential part of any robust, scalable monitoring strategy. Alerts that send teams scrambling for basic background information prolong troubleshooting, hindering effective incident response and heightening the potential for service disruption. Given the increasing complexity of modern, distributed applications, however, breaking down knowledge silos in order to ensure consistent access to critical context for alerts can be a challenge.