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Azure outage on July 23, 2026: StatusGator detected it 1 hour before Microsoft acknowledged it

On July 23, 2026, Azure users around the world began hitting gateway timeouts, DNS failures, and unreachable virtual machines well before Microsoft posted anything on its status page. The first reports reached StatusGator at 15:06 UTC. By 15:28 UTC, StatusGator had sent an Early Warning Signal to subscribers. Microsoft did not acknowledge the incident until 16:29 UTC.

How to track business transactions in Site24x7 APM

Learn how to monitor and troubleshoot Business Transactions using Site24x7's APM Insight in this step-by-step walkthrough. In this video, you'll see how to: Set up Business Transaction grouping rules based on URL patterns Track key performance metrics — response time, throughput, Apdex score, and error rate Drill down into individual transaction traces to pinpoint slow requests Use trend graphs to spot performance regressions over time Identify the exact business-critical workflows impacting your application's user experience.

How to Set up Alerts For Critical And VIP Tickets

A critical ticket loses value every minute it sits in the same queue as routine requests. If the service desk waits for someone to recognize that it's a major incident or that it came from a VIP, the escalation has already started too late. When a business-critical ticket arrives, the platform should recognize the context, increase its priority, notify the appropriate teams, and trigger the right workflow without waiting for an agent to intervene.

AssemblyAI scales production Voice AI with Datadog's unified observability

AssemblyAI is a leading Voice AI platform that provides speech-to-text models and AI infrastructure developers use to build real-time voice applications. AssemblyAI uses Datadog to unify observability across its AI inference pipelines and multi-cloud GPU infrastructure, enabling the team to optimize performance and costs, accelerate model releases, and confidently deliver fast, reliable AI experiences at scale.

DNS Spy Now Connects to GoDaddy. Every Domain, Every Record, Read-Only.

GoDaddy manages more domains than any registrar on earth, so it has always been near the top of our provider integration list. There was just one problem: in May 2024, GoDaddy restricted its API to accounts holding ten or more domains — fifty for some endpoints. Overnight, certificate renewals broke, dynamic DNS scripts died, and every small business with one or two domains was locked out of automating anything.