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What's Driving Traffic in Rural America - Broadband, Wireless & DCI for AI

s consumers continue to shift away from traditional cable broadcasting towards streaming video services such as Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Paramount+, this will continue to drive the demand for robust middle mile solutions. This growth in data traffic demands not only enhance rural provider’s Internet infrastructure but also fortify their needs for data center interconnectivity (DCI) to metropolitan hubs. In this context, rural markets require connectivity solutions that can support 100G and even 400G connections to efficiently handle rising bandwidth needs tied to cloud applications and content delivery networks.

Is Your Network Ready for the Perfect Storm?

For decades, the corporate network has been the central nervous system of the enterprise. It’s the invisible, indispensable fabric that connects everything. And for just as long, the conversation has been about its growing complexity. But today, something feels different. You are no longer dealing with a predictable, manageable evolution. Instead, three immense, converging forces are creating a perfect storm, pushing traditional network management approaches to their breaking point.

Grafana Cloud updates: deeper insights in Kubernetes Monitoring, Adaptive Metrics updates, and more

We consistently roll out helpful updates and fun features in Grafana Cloud, our fully managed observability platform powered by the open source Grafana LGTM Stack: Loki for logs, Grafana for visualization, Tempo for traces, and Mimir for metrics. In case you missed them, here’s our monthly round-up of the latest and greatest updates in Grafana Cloud. You can also check out our What’s new in Grafana Cloud documentation to explore all the latest features. Not a Grafana Cloud user yet?

How the StatusGator name was born

More than 10 years ago, StatusGator pioneered the concept of a status page aggregator. How was the StatusGator name created? In a group chat, of course! The incubator of crazy ideas and nerdy discussions, our friendly group chat was a place where I originally discussed the product idea, validated its use cases, and solicited feedback on name concepts. I recently unearthed screenshots from the original group chat among my friends.

Introducing the new search box on StatusGator

Recently we hit an exciting milestone at StatusGator: 6,000+ services now tracked! To mark the occasion, we’ve made it even easier to find the apps you care about and report outages: A brand-new, lightning-fast search box is now live on the StatusGator website. It’s built right into the top navigation, accessible from any page — and works beautifully on mobile, too.

Measure your reliability risk, not your engineers

Do you know the current reliability risk of your systems? Do you know right now how your services will react to common failures like a dependency going down? Sadly, most organizations don’t have answers to these questions, relying on QA tests and the skill of their engineers to deploy code they assume won’t break. But this is a process problem, which means you can’t hire your way out of it.

How to Create Playwright Scripts for Website Monitoring with Chrome, ChatGPT & Sematext

Let’s say you want to make sure your website works as expected. You do not want to check if it just loads. You also want to check if important buttons or features are there and working. Oh, and you don’t want to just do it once. You want to keep an eye on this pretty much all the time. And, of course, you don’t want to keep checking manually if anything broke – you want to be notified, alerted when (not if) things break. You can do this by creating a Browser Monitor.

Introducing Sentry's Godot SDK 1.0 Alpha, with support for Godot 4.5 Beta

Debugging during development is easy. You've got a debugger, stack traces, and logs right in front of you. But once your Godot game is in the hands of players, things get trickier. Most won’t report bugs, and if they do, you’re lucky if they include anything more than “it crashed”.

Zero instrumentation distributed tracing is here: Meet OBI on Open Telemetry

Modern systems generate enormous amounts of telemetry. The hurdle is collecting clean, connected traces without rewriting code or babysitting a fleet of language agents. That’s why Coralogix backed eBPF from the start. eBPF (extended Berkeley Packet Filter) executes sandboxed programs inside the Linux kernel, without modifying kernel source code. This method allows probes to see every request, at runtime with no instrumentation, and with near zero per‑request overhead.

Taking AI Apps From Prototype to Production

At this year’s AWS Summit in New York, agentic AI took center stage with Amazon’s launch of Bedrock AgentCore — a powerful step toward turning AI prototypes into scalable, production-ready applications. From low-code workflows to turnkey infrastructure, a new generation of tools is enabling teams of all skill levels to build, deploy, and monitor AI agents faster than ever.