k8s-monitoring-helm Chart Office Hours (September 2025)
In the September edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 3.4 and 3.5 releases as well as the plan for upcoming features.
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Why Healthcare CIOs Are Becoming Transformation Leaders, Not Just Tech Leaders
The role of the healthcare CIO looks nothing like it did a decade ago. Running the EHR, keeping infrastructure online, and managing vendor contracts are still table stakes, but they’re no longer the whole story. Today’s healthcare CIOs are being asked to do something far bigger: lead enterprise-wide transformation.
Monitor Kubernetes Hosts with OpenTelemetry
It’s 3 AM. API latency just spiked from 200ms to 2s. Alerts are firing, and users are frustrated. You SSH into the first server: top, free -h, iostat — nothing unusual. On to the next host. And the next. That’s how most of us learned to debug. The tools worked, and we got good at using them. But as infrastructure became distributed and dynamic, this approach started to break down. Modern monitoring needs more than SSH and top. It needs unified telemetry.
How SSL Certificate Monitoring Prevents Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks remain one of the most dangerous cybersecurity threats. In these attacks, hackers secretly intercept and sometimes alter communication between two parties. Without proper encryption, sensitive data such as passwords, credit card details, and personal information becomes exposed. SSL/TLS certificates encrypt this communication, preventing unauthorized access. However, certificates can expire, become misconfigured, or become compromised, creating security gaps.
Introducing Catchpoint Session Replay: See Digital Experience Through Your Users' Eyes
When was the last time you really saw what your customers experience on your site? We're excited to introduce Session Replay, a new capability in our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform that lets you step directly into the user's journey. Session Replay is so much more than a platform upgrade. It’s an opportunity to understand, fix, and even prevent the issues that lead to churn, missed conversions, and frustrated users, all from their point of view.
You First Steps in Sentry - A Hands-On Workshop
It turns out, Sentry does A LOT these days. Errors, Logs, Replays, Traces, and even Agent and MCP monitoring… but all this observability works better with a good foundation. We’re going to step back to 0, and show you how to build a “not bad” Sentry implementation from the ground up.
Integrations Overview
This video provides a detailed tour of our integrations, including how to set up automated email, SMS, and phone call alerts. Learn how to connect with various trusted tools, tailor your alerts to your team's needs, and pass key data between Uptime.com and your favorite applications. Discover how to add and manage new integrations, create dedicated contacts, and assign integrations to specific checks. We also introduce our Zapier partnership, enabling connections to over 8000 additional services.
LLM Observability in the Wild - Why OpenTelemetry should be the Standard
A few days ago I hosted a live conversation with Pranav, co-founder of Chatwoot, about issues his team was running into with LLM observability. The short version: building, debugging, and improving AI agents in production gets messy fast. There's multiple competing standards for default libraries for LLM observability. And many such libraries like OpenInference which claim to be based on OpenTelemetry don't strictly adhere to it's conventions.
How to analyze observability and monitoring tools for actionability
Choosing the right observability tools is critical so ensure your teams get actionable insights. In this video, we explore how to evaluate observability platforms based on their ability to detect anomalies, link causes, and trigger effective responses.
Introducing the UptimeRobot v3 API
As you may have noticed, we released the latest version of the UptimeRobot API a few weeks ago. Don’t worry, the v2 will remain available; however, it will no longer receive support or updates. New features will be added only to v3. Built on a RESTful architecture, v3 unlocks more flexibility, cleaner workflows, and expanded capabilities for developers who want tighter control over their monitoring. Below, we’ll highlight what’s new and how it compares to the legacy v2 API.