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Microsoft Teams outage on December 19, 2025

On December 19, 2025, Microsoft Teams experienced a performance degradation that affected communication for various users. Despite a significant volume of reports from the community, official health dashboards remained in a normal status throughout the event. This incident serves as a case study for why IT teams benefit from secondary monitoring sources.

Five Worthy Reads: Greener IT Starts Here: How AI Is Transforming Operational Efficiency

Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we learn more about how AI transforms sustainability in the enterprise. As enterprises accelerate their digital journeys, IT teams are under pressure to deliver faster, smarter, and more sustainable operations.

ManageEngine recognized in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant for Digital Experience Monitoring!

ManageEngine has been recognized in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM), affirming our commitment to delivering superior enterprise service and user experience.

Looking back at 2025: Innovations that shaped DevOps and observability

The year 2025 has been exciting for Site24x7, packed with innovations designed to make monitoring smarter, faster, and more intuitive. From enhanced APM insights and deeper database observability to a more powerful log management experience and AI-driven plugin enhancements, we’ve focused on giving teams the tools they need to troubleshoot faster, gain clearer insights, and manage complex environments with ease. Let’s rewind and see our 2025 highlights.
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How to share and analyze survey data (or other business metrics) in Grafana

Our annual Observability Survey provides some great insights on the state of industry and all things observability. And for the third edition of the survey, published last March, we wanted to bring the results into a Grafana dashboard—not just because we could, but because it was quite a nice way to interact with the data. After all, Grafana isn't just for IT observability. You can use it to monitor everything from BI data to lunar landings to pet pythons—and now, survey data.

Site24x7 2025 wrapped: Full-stack monitoring scale

2025 was Site24x7’s year of scale and intelligence. We stood by IT teams everywhere, keeping their world running with visibility that never misses a beat. We’ve evolved monitoring into a heartbeat, one that pulses with the rhythm of your business. AI-powered. Built for the future. Security built IN, not AROUND. Full-stack visibility that scales with you. At Site24x7, we’re committed to redefining what observability means for modern IT operations — unifying metrics, traces, logs, and real-user insights across clouds, containers, networks, and applications.

Synthetic Monitoring & WooCommerce: Detecting Hidden Failures

WooCommerce powers a massive portion of the internet’s commerce layer, largely because it looks simple. Install a plugin, connect Stripe, choose a theme, and suddenly WordPress becomes a store. That perceived simplicity is also what makes WooCommerce fragile in production. WooCommerce stores are not single systems.