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We are excited to share that our Early Warning Signals feature, previously in beta, is now fully available to all StatusGator users on all plans. This long-awaited feature ensures you never miss a beat and keeps you informed of outages before a provider publicly acknowledges them on their status page. Since its beta launch, this feature has successfully detected multiple service outages before they were officially acknowledged by each provider.

In today’s complex cloud-native environments, observability is key to maintaining performance, reliability, and scalability. However, different teams often need to focus on different aspects of the system. Developers might be more interested in error rates and response times, while operations teams must monitor system health and resource utilization. Lumigo now supports multiple dashboards, so you can provide each team with the information they need precisely how they need it.

As companies embrace cloud-native architectures and scale their operations, ensuring business continuity and minimizing downtime become paramount; even brief outages can result in substantial revenue loss and reputational damage. In July 2023, a flaw in CrowdStrike's software update caused widespread disruption across various industries. The air travel sector was particularly hard hit, with over 3,300 flights cancelled globally. Major airlines like United, Delta, American Airlines, British Airway.

HAProxy Enterprise now supports RADIUS load balancing with its new HAProxy Enterprise UDP Module. This blog post addresses some of the challenges with implementing RADIUS load balancing and how you can get started with the new module below.

Imagine this: your company’s website suddenly goes down during a peak sales hour, leaving customers frustrated and potential revenue lost. This situation calls for immediate action, which is where Incident Management comes into play. But what happens next? If this issue recurs, it signals the need for a deeper investigation—enter Problem Management.

Picture a well-oiled machine. Every cog and wheel has its role, working in harmony to ensure smooth operation. In the realm of IT, ITSM vs ITOM represents this harmony.I know: This analogy is a little bit lame. But ITSM vs ITOM is in fact a common discussion in IT circles, and understanding their differences and connections is vital for businesses aiming to optimize their IT strategies. So, any effort trying to be accurate is welcome.

In the first part of this series, we saw that even if you just use AppSignal’s default application monitoring, you can get a lot of information about how your Phoenix application is running. Even so, there are many ways in which a Phoenix application may exhibit performance issues, such as slow database queries, poorly engineered LiveView components, views that are too heavy, or non-optimized assets.

Simplify cost management and drive cost reductions across all in-house and managed cloud services.

BigQuery continuous queries enable the reverse ETL pattern. You can now stream your enriched data from BigQuery back to the operational data layer using Aiven for Apache Kafka. BigQuery enables customers to quickly generate insights about their data. Its native integration with AI tools allows organizations to transform row assets into valuable information that can be used to generate more accurate decisions, streamlining companies' growth.

HighRadius is a FinTech company that specializes in using automation to make financial management easier. So naturally, RamKishore Middela, assistant vice president of cloud engineering at HighRadius, recognizes more easily than most the benefits of automating his company’s cloud cost management with CloudZero.