Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

System outages cost businesses an average of $5,600 per minute, according to Gartner. That's over $300,000 per hour of downtime. But beyond the financial impact, downtime destroys customer trust, damages your reputation, and creates a backlog of urgent work for your already busy technical teams. The key to minimizing downtime? A robust DevOps alert management system that notifies you of issues before they become full-blown disasters.

In this edition of Beyond Their Intended Scope, we take a look at last week’s BGP leak by a DDoS mitigation company which impacted networks around the world. We look at the impacts in both BGP and traffic data, and discuss how RFC 9234’s “Only to Customer” BGP Path Attribute could have helped.

Legacy network systems keep many enterprises running, but let's be honest—they can be a nightmare to secure. Misconfigurations, outdated protocols, security gaps, or even easy passwords make them easy targets for attackers. If upgrading isn't an option (for financial reasons or because you do not have the resources to refurbish the monolith that your legacy network has become), how do you lock them down? That's where Site24x7 comes in.

IncidentHub can send outage alerts to many external systems. You can choose from Slack, Webhook, Email, Discord, PagerDuty, and more. Alerts are effective only when they are relevant and actionable. In this article, we will explore how to fine-tune your IncidentHub alerts to receive only the relevant ones for your third-party services.

Grafana Alloy, our distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector with native support for Prometheus, is great for all sorts of needs, including shipping your Microsoft Azure metrics and logs to Grafana Cloud.

We're thrilled to announce that Checkly is now a launch partner in Vercel's Observability Marketplace! This integration makes it easier than ever for Vercel users to monitor their deployments with end-to-end testing and API monitoring powered by Checkly.

Organizations today are grappling with an explosion of telemetry data growth as cloud adoption accelerates, digital infrastructures expands, and operational complexity increases. More data creates more challenges for IT and security teams as they struggle to separate signal from noise while maintaining compliance and efficiency within constrained budgets. It often feels like being caught in the deep end of a wave pool without a floatie, with each new data source sending another wave crashing down.

More people will build and ship applications in the next year than in the 10 years previous. As more applications make their way into “launched”, by developers of all experience levels, making sense of “what broke”, “why”, and clear paths to fixing it is going to become more and more important. This is why it made sense for Sentry to be one of the first platforms launching Vercel’s new Observability Marketplace category.