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What is AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS?

As cloud applications moved from VMs to containers and then to microservices, the amount of background work needed to keep everything running grew just as quickly. You gain speed and flexibility, but you also end up managing clusters, scaling rules, and capacity choices that don’t really add to the product you’re building. AWS Fargate steps in right there. It lets you run your ECS tasks without looking after any servers at all.

OTel Updates: Complex Attributes Now Supported Across All Signals

OpenTelemetry now supports maps, heterogeneous arrays, and byte arrays across all signals. Here’s where these new types shine — and where simple primitives still fit naturally. If you’ve been working with OpenTelemetry for a while, you’re likely familiar with the straightforward key-value approach to attributes. It’s simple, fast, and works well with how most telemetry backends store, index, and query data.

Navigating External Outages: How Selector Cuts Through the Cloudflare Noise

Yesterday’s widespread Cloudflare outage reminds us how crucial external dependencies are to the stability of our own applications. When a key edge provider like Cloudflare goes down, the impact on your internal monitoring systems can look like a catastrophic, internal system failure triggering a massive storm of alerts and sending engineering teams into frantic, misdirected debugging sessions.

Why Gaining Control of Your #telemetry Data Is a Game Changer

Disconnected pipelines. Unknown data sources. Costs that do not add up. Many teams struggle to answer a simple question. What data do we have and where is it going? In this clip, a Cribl customer explains how bringing all telemetry data together changed everything. With Cribl, their team can finally see what they collect, where it flows, and what it costs. That clarity unlocked smarter reduction, better routing decisions, and major optimization across security and observability workflows.

OnlineOrNot's lessons from Cloudflare's outage on 2025-11-18

On 2025-11-18 at 11:48 UTC, Cloudflare declared an incident affecting the global network (that also affected OnlineOrNot). OnlineOrNot monitors websites, APIs, web apps, and cron jobs, while providing status pages as well. While we partially mitigated the issue by enabling a fallback to AWS-based monitoring, between 13:00 UTC and 14:33 UTC failing checks went unreported, heartbeat checks over-reported, and status pages were unavailable.

AI-Suggested Alert Thresholds for Mobile Telemetry

Life is pretty good. I’ve shipped a mobile app and I’m (happily) drowning in telemetry. Battery impact, time in foreground/background per screen, crash rates, slow frames, network retries – the works. The data is brilliant; the challenge is turning signals into reliable alerts that catch real issues which are relevant to my app’s functions. So… what should I actually listen for, and where should I set the thresholds?

Outage map now available in your StatusGator board

We’re excited to introduce a helpful new update to your StatusGator experience – the service outage map is now built directly into your StatusGator account. StatusGator has displayed outage heatmaps on our public website’s service landing pages. These maps helped users understand where issues were being reported across the globe. Now, we’ve taken that same valuable visibility and placed it inside your board.

StatusGator earns SOC 2 Type 2 certification

We are absolutely thrilled to share some momentous news: StatusGator has officially achieved SOC 2 Type 2 certification! This isn’t just another checkbox on a compliance list – it’s a powerful validation of our dedication to safeguarding your data and delivering the reliable service you depend on.

Stay audit-ready with real-time file change alerts in Site24x7 server monitoring

Maintaining the integrity of server files and directories is essential for security, operational resilience, and compliance. Whether it’s business-critical application configurations, sensitive data files, or audit logs, any unauthorized, unexpected, or accidental modification can jeopardize service continuity and expose an organization to regulatory risks. Manual file monitoring is impractical at scale.