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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America is in Salt Lake City this week, and Bindplane will be at booth 253. Come say hi! We have four talks and we're bringing a ton of cool updates with us. So many of you were eager to try Bindplane Agent while it was in early access. That changes today. Bindplane Agent is generally available. If you've built pipelines in Bindplane before, you know the drill. Pick a source, pick a destination, add processors in the right order, fill in the settings, roll it out.

Rails 8.1.4.1 is a security point release, and it’s a substantial one. It carries around a dozen CVE-level advisories spread across Action View, Action Pack, and Active Support. There are no feature changes to weigh and no behavior most apps need to plan around, which makes this the easy kind of upgrade to justify: bump it this week. (The fixes were also backported to the 8.0 and 7.x series, so you don’t have to be on 8.1 to get them.)

As AI-assisted development helps teams create and ship more code, engineers need to check a growing volume of changes under real production conditions. Even code that passes testing can introduce errors or slowdowns in production, so early detection is essential to protecting customers. Automating those health checks helps teams keep pace by reducing the time engineers spend watching dashboards.

When investigating issues with a Kubernetes service, SREs and platform engineers need to understand what’s happening across its supporting infrastructure. For example, is a process still running? Did it restart? Is the scheduler struggling to place pods? Finding the answers to these questions often requires engineers to search process inventories, examine resource metrics, and query Kubernetes control plane telemetry.

Alert rules are great for the failures you can predict, but they fall short on the ones you can't. With the advent of modern AI, you might think the solution is to swarm your stack with agents that monitor every last detail, but that can quickly lead to astronomical bills. And those are the gaps Watchers fill: catching what alerts miss while keeping costs in control. Generally Available as of ObservabilityCON 2026, Watchers are always-on agents in Grafana Assistant.

When a JavaScript error reaches Sentry, the stack trace points at minified code. Sentry finds the source map that was uploaded for that build to be able to show you the original file and line. Source maps are uploaded in artifact bundles. There are two ways to find the right one: Symbolicator, our open-source symbolication service, does the lookup when it processes an event.

We’re happy to announce that you can set up Third party service monitoring from the UptimeRobot API, MCP server and CLI too, and get alerted when a service your product depends on has an outage. Add a provider from your deploy pipeline, ask your AI assistant whether Stripe had an incident last night, or check a provider’s status from your terminal.

Open source website monitoring tools give organizations greater control over how they monitor websites, servers, applications, and infrastructure. They can reduce licensing costs, offer extensive customization, and integrate with existing workflows, but they also require more time to deploy, maintain, and scale than managed alternatives. We’ll compare some of the best open source website monitoring tools available today, from lightweight uptime monitors to enterprise-grade observability platforms.

Recent security disclosures have put the Veeam Management Pack for Microsoft System Center under scrutiny. Security researchers have identified three remote code execution vulnerabilities, including one rated Critical (CVSS 9.3). According to Veeam’s security advisory, versions 9.1 and earlier in the 9.x product line are affected. Veeam will not provide a separate security fix for these versions.