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ManageEngine earns Major Player status for helping enterprises achieve resilient, high-performance digital ecosystems through unified full-stack observability.

Every technology cycle comes with hype, backlash, and eventually… utility. AI is shaping up to be no different. As we head into 2026, the conversation is already shifting from “AI will replace everything” to “why isn’t this paying off yet?” This shift is heavily influenced by evolving market trends, as businesses and technologists respond to changes in customer behavior, operational patterns, and broader market conditions that shape expectations around AI.

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.

We’re excited to announce dotConnect 2025.1, a major update that brings full support for the newest versions of.NET and Visual Studio. This release boosts performance with new batch update capabilities, adds built-in OAuth for easier cloud integration, and streamlines the product lineup by removing outdated technologies so developers can rely on a more modern, focused data access stack.

We're launching a ServiceNow integration in early January that brings Obkio's network monitoring capabilities directly into your IT service management workflow.

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.

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.

This fall and winter have had their share of major outages (including AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare), and December was no exception. On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a 25-minute outage that served responses with HTTP 500 errors to about 28% of HTTP traffic served by Cloudflare. Since Cloudflare handles an average of 81 million HTTP requests per second, this represents a substantial chunk of internet traffic, including LinkedIn, Zoom, and Downdetector.

Global ad fraud losses hit $88 billion in 2023 and are projected to reach $172 billion by 2028. For a marketing organization deploying $20 million annually across digital channels, this translates to $1.8-3 million in misallocated capital. Money that could fund two additional demand gen campaigns or expand your martech stack. Worse, fraudulent traffic contaminates your analytics, causing you to double down on underperforming channels while starving high-potential ones.