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We’re excited to announce a new enhancement to StatusGator: the Metrics tab on the monitor details page! Now, for both Website and Ping monitors, you can track vital performance data, including availability, downtime, and response time trends over the last 24 hours.

Middle market businesses operate in a unique space—they need to do more with less. Whether you’re running an e-commerce store, a SaaS platform, or a service-based website, customers of mid-market businesses expect fast-loading pages and smooth interactions—no matter where they are. Creating a seamless digital experience is essential for customer retention and revenue growth. But here’s the challenge: Website and application performance aren’t the same everywhere.

Monitoring is only as good as the alerts that surface critical issues before they spiral out of control. With InfluxDB 3 Core and Enterprise, you can extend alerting capabilities beyond built-in solutions by leveraging custom Python processing plugins. Whether you need real-time notifications when thresholds are exceeded or advanced anomaly detection tailored to your infrastructure, developing custom alerting logic ensures you get the right alerts at the right time.

We're excited to launch our new Reporting Dashboard, giving you a powerful command center to analyze your monitoring data and make data-driven reliability decisions.

Oh Dear is the underdog in the website monitoring software space. We’re a small player in a market dominated by big, well-funded competitors. And yet, we’ve built a solid user base and created a profitable SaaS business. But how did we do it? And more importantly, what worked, and what didn’t? This is our honest story about marketing Oh Dear, our lessons learned, and the strategies that helped us grow.

IT teams are drowning in alerts, tickets, and endless firefighting. With growing complexity across infrastructure, networks, and applications, manual incident response isn’t just inefficient—it’s unsustainable. That’s where auto-remediation steps in. Auto-remediation goes beyond detection and alerts—it takes action.

Although the importance and growth of cloud storage is rapidly increasing, local storage may still have its place for personal or business use, as it still offers some advantages over cloud storage. Many consider the deciding factor for their storage solution to be cost. For this reason, we will explore cloud storage vs local storage cost throughout this article, among other features which could save money, (or increase costs), based on comparing these two storage models.

Managing SharePoint storage efficiently is crucial as data grows—discover how Squirrel Archiving stacks up against Microsoft 365’s built-in options to cut costs and improve accessibility.