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It’s often framed as an enterprise-only exercise: long timelines, expensive tooling, consultants everywhere, and a lot of compliance work that exists mainly to survive an audit. As a ~40-person, engineering-driven SaaS company, we needed the same level of trust and rigor as much larger organizations — but we weren’t willing to accept shelfware, parallel compliance infrastructure, or controls that only exist on paper. We also didn’t stop at ISO 27001.

Over the course of my 20 years as a developer, SRE, and now observability product leader, software has typically progressed at a good pace. But now, the emergence of two transformative technologies are fundamentally reshaping enterprise observability: generative AI (GenAI) and OpenTelemetry (OTel). We surveyed over 500 IT decision-makers for a new report:The Landscape of Observability in 2026: Balancing Cost and Innovation.

Cloud monitoring is essential for tracking performance, security, and costs in dynamic environments. With 94% of enterprises using cloud services and 81% adopting multi-cloud setups, maintaining control is critical. Here's what you need to know.

Modern DevOps faces tough monitoring challenges due to distributed systems, containers, and microservices. Key issues include fragmented visibility, alert fatigue, tool overload, pipeline blindspots, and cloud cost inefficiencies.

January 2026 saw a wave of high-impact service disruptions across social platforms, telecom providers, developer tools, education services, and streaming apps. In several cases, StatusGator detected problems minutes or even hours before providers publicly acknowledged them, and in many cases, providers never acknowledged them at all. Unfortunately, many providers still do not have public status pages, leaving users with little visibility into what is happening during an outage.

This report presents status data for eight major AI systems during January 2026: Anthropic, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google Gemini, Groq Cloud, OpenAI, Perplexity, Replicate, and xAI. The data includes official incidents reported on provider status pages and detection information from IsDown's monitoring system.

Today, we are pleased to announce the general availability of Elastic 9.3 as the latest version of the Elasticsearch Platform — the world’s most popular open source platform for transforming both structured and unstructured data into trusted answers and outcomes. In addition to including new features that help developers with context engineering and agent building, Elastic 9.3 introduces a broad set of new capabilities to Elastic Search & AI, Elastic Observability, and Elastic Security.