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Six platform updates giving you time back in your day

Ever look at your to-do list at the end of the day and realize it’s grown longer, not shorter? We get it—there’s always more to do and never enough time. But if you’re a Sumo Logic user, reading this blog will be a win for your day because we’re giving you six ways to slash the time you spend on tasks in your platform.

FireHydrant MCP Server User Guide

Tips and best practices to help you get up and running with FireHydrant's Model Context Protocol integration. Manage incidents, alerts, and retrospectives directly through AI assistants like Claude or Cursor. Welcome to the FireHydrant MCP Server user guide! This guide will help you get up and running with FireHydrant's Model Context Protocol integration, allowing you to manage incidents, alerts, and retrospectives directly through AI assistants like Claude or Cursor.

How to Cut Observability Costs with Synthetic Monitoring and Responsive Pipelines

Platform teams are struggling with observability noise, bloated storage costs, and lack of clarity during incidents. Most teams capture everything all the time, leading to expensive, overwhelming, and often unnecessary data volumes. In Telemetry for Modern Apps, Mezmo teamed up with Checkly to demonstrate how synthetic monitoring triggers and responsive telemetry pipelines can help reduce costs while maintaining the context needed during incidents.

Platform Team Toolkit: Governance that accelerates developer velocity

Platform engineering teams face a critical challenge: scaling software delivery across dozens of development teams without killing innovation and velocity. The traditional approach forces an impossible choice: rigid standardization or operational chaos. Platform teams get buried in manual configuration requests, security updates take weeks to roll out, and compliance gaps emerge from inconsistent practices and developer workarounds.

HAProxy Enterprise WAF protects against Microsoft SharePoint CVE-2025-53770 / CVE-2025-53771

Critical vulnerabilities in Microsoft SharePoint (CVE-2025-53770 and CVE-2025-53771) are currently being exploited in the wild. Disclosed on July 19, 2025, these vulnerabilities have CVSS scores of 9.8 and 7.1 respectively, indicating severe and high risk. CVE-2025-53770 affects on-premises Microsoft SharePoint Servers, allowing unauthorized attackers to execute code over a network. CVE-2025-53771 affects Microsoft Office SharePoint, allowing authorized attackers to perform spoofing over a network.

Ship Confluent Cloud Observability in Minutes

You're running Kafka on Confluent Cloud. You care about lag, throughput, retries, and replication. But where do you see those metrics? Confluent gives you metrics, sure, but not all in one place. Some live behind a metrics API, others behind Connect clusters or Schema Registries. You either wire them manually or give up. What if you could stream those metrics to a platform built for high-frequency, high-cardinality time series, and do it in minutes?