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Website Monitoring: What, Why, and Best Practices

Jan 5, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor

In modern times where digital presence dictates business success, understanding website monitoring is no longer optional, whether you run an e-commerce store, SaaS platform, or enterprise website it’s a fundamental pillar of modern operations. Even a few minutes of website downtime can result in lost revenue, damaged credibility, and frustrated users.

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2026 observability trends and predictions from Grafana Labs: unified, intelligent, and open

Jan 5, 2026 By Maggie Cornejo In Grafana

After a decade of dashboards, alerts, and ever-expanding telemetry pipelines, observability is changing. No longer just the domain of engineering, the most innovative organizations are extending observability to all areas of the business to better understand system behavior, emerging risks, and customer impact. At the same time, rising cloud costs and increasing complexity are forcing organizations to be more intentional about what they observe and why.

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Troubleshoot faster with the GitLab Source Code integration in Datadog

Jan 5, 2026 By Eric Metaj In Datadog

Developers and SREs who rely on GitLab to develop their services often face significant friction when troubleshooting errors or fixing issues that degrade code quality. To understand the context of a problem, they resort to tab-hopping between observability tools and GitLab, connecting stack traces, spans, and profiles back to the right files and commits.

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Tech Talk - Data Fabric: Enter the Agentic Era with Splunk AI Assistant for SPL 1.4

Jan 4, 2026 By Splunk In Splunk

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Office 365 Synthetic Monitoring for Availability & SLA Validation

Jan 3, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor

Microsoft Office 365 underpins daily work for millions of organizations. Email, collaboration, document sharing, identity, and meetings all converge into a single dependency that employees implicitly assume will “just work.” When it doesn’t, productivity halts immediately and visibly. Microsoft publishes service health dashboards and backs Office 365 with formal SLAs. On paper, availability is measured, tracked, and contractually enforced.

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Guided DNS Troubleshooting, Full History, and UI Improvements

Jan 3, 2026 By Matt Rideout In DNS Check

We're kicking off 2026 by shipping improvements that make DNS troubleshooting faster and more intuitive. When a DNS check fails, you'll now see exactly what needs to change to fix it, and you'll have complete visibility into your DNS record behavior over time.

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Sentry Claude Code Plugin and Skills

Jan 3, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry

We're looking at what building a standard set of tools to use in Claude Code looks like for Sentry - and Claude's plugin marketplace is a great way to distribute them. Take it for a spin - the plugin distributes the MCP server, a few skills for setting up core parts of Sentry, and a few commands to use.

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Using Sentry's MCP in Vercel v0

Jan 3, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry

You can use the Sentry MCP server to debug issues in applications that are built in v0. You can also use it to create projects, pull down configurations, or dig into performance issues in applications. Check it out.

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Transaction Check Best Practices

Jan 2, 2026 By Uptime Website Monitoring In uptime

Welcome back to Uptime.com! In this video, we explore best practices for configuring Transaction Checks to simulate user actions on your website. Learn how to build reliable scripts with a series of commands and validators using our no-code Transaction Check Recorder or your developer tools. We cover essential tips like keeping checks streamlined, using 'wait for' commands to ensure element readiness, and validating URL transitions. Follow along as we set up a simple 7-step check to validate the Uptime.com domain health tool.

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VPN Connection Monitoring: Performance & Availability

Jan 2, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor

For a growing number of organizations, the VPN is no longer a peripheral security control. It is the network. Remote employees authenticate through it. Contractors reach internal tools through it. Administrators access cloud consoles through it. Entire application stacks depend on encrypted tunnels to function at all. When VPN connectivity degrades, productivity collapses quietly and unevenly—often without a clear signal pointing to the root cause.

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