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Whether you're using SolarWinds, PRTG, Datadog, or another long-standing monitoring solution, chances are your environment has evolved significantly since the platform was first deployed. New applications have been added. Infrastructure has expanded into cloud environments. Teams have developed custom dashboards, reports, alerts, and workflows. Over time, monitoring becomes deeply woven into daily operations. That's why many organizations continue using tools that no longer meet their needs.

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Monitor metrics are now available through the StatusGator v3 API for both Website Monitors and Ping Monitors. These endpoints provide the same latency and performance data available in the Monitor Metrics tab, making it accessible through the API and MCP server. You can find the endpoints in the API documentation.

On June 24, 2026, Shopify experienced a widespread service disruption that affected storefronts, admin dashboards, and merchant access across multiple regions. While the outage did not impact every user, reports quickly surfaced from merchants around the world who were unable to access stores, log in to administrative tools, or complete routine operations.

Enterprise IT networks power business operations across the world. As businesses scale to catch up with an increasingly-demanding user base, networks also grow more complex. IT teams managing these networks have to monitor more data than before, under more stringent SLA terms, with little room for failure. Trying to do this manually across thousands of devices can take a lot of time and effort, and are prone to errors.

Earlier this year, Grafana 13 laid the groundwork for making it easier and faster than ever to turn your data into actionable insights. With our latest minor release, Grafana 13.1, we're building on that foundation, expanding observability as code, bringing Grafana Assistant to more data sources, and streamlining the everyday workflows teams rely on to visualize, analyze, and act on their data. Download Grafana 13.1 Below are just some of the highlights from Grafana 13.1.

How do you choose the best ITSM tool for your team when 20 vendors all promise the same three things: native AI, ITIL alignment, and a single system to run your whole IT operation? It is the fair question we hear most from IT managers and service desk leads, and the cost of getting it wrong is high. An ITSM platform is a multi-year commitment where your team works inside every day, so a poor fit shows fast as slow tickets, manual workarounds, and a migration nobody wants to repeat.