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Heroku Monitoring Add-ons 2026 and Hosted Graphite

Jan 12, 2026 By MetricFire Blogger In MetricFire
Monitoring performance of Heroku applications helps improve user experience. This blog post covers Heroku monitoring add-ons and explores why Hosted Graphite is the best choice in 2026. We'll discuss the benefits and setup process of the Hosted Graphite add-on. We'll also discuss future trends in Heroku monitoring.
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Intercom outage - January 9th, 2026

Jan 10, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
Ever had that sinking feeling when your help desk just stops responding, but the official status page says everything is “up and running”? That’s exactly what happened on January 9, 2026, when Intercom – one of the world’s most popular support tools – hit a major snag. While hundreds of companies were left staring at loading circles, StatusGator was already on the case.
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Lightrun MCP: Your AI Assistant Now Debugs and Validates Production Code

Jan 9, 2026 By Lightrun In Lightrun
Intermittent production bugs are hard to debug and rarely reproduce locally. Teams fall into a loop of adding logs, and every rollback slows them down. In this demo, R&D team leads Maor Yaffe and Or Golan show how an AI assistant can verify production issues using real runtime data, without redeploying. By connecting Cursor to Lightrun MCP, the agent inspects live production behavior, collects real variable values, and confirms the root cause with evidence instead of assumptions.
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Top 7 Kubernetes Add-ons

Jan 9, 2026 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
The open-source Kubernetes platform is designed to help simplify application deployment through Linux containers. It supports tasks like deploying workloads in the form of pods, clustering nodes, managing container runtimes, and tracking resources. The Kubernetes microservices system has risen in popularity over the last several years as an easy way to support, scale, and manage applications.
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Guide to Sending Custom Metrics From Your Heroku Application

Jan 9, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Heroku makes it easy to deploy and operate applications without managing servers, but understanding how your application behaves internally still requires instrumentation. Platform metrics like CPU usage, memory consumption, and router request/status counts are useful, but they don’t tell you how long your code takes to run, when your app throws errors, or whether users are interacting with key features.
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Types of Cyber Security Attacks

Jan 9, 2026 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
Damaging cyber attacks are a rising concern as organizations increasingly rely on digital technology for managing sensitive data and running core business operations. While technology can increase business efficiency, without security measures in place, a digital-first approach can end up introducing vulnerabilities and putting data at risk.
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