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Downtime only shows up at the most inconvenient moments — like right after a 'quick deploy' or during the five minutes you dared to step away. Maybe it’s a traffic spike hammering one endpoint and taking the rest down with it. Maybe it’s that 'small change' you confidently shipped straight to prod. Either way, users can’t reach your site, and now you’re debugging live in production.

The 2025-26 Australian Federal Budget sets out a clear priority: building a stronger economy and a more resilient nation. That includes investment in critical infrastructure, skills and services to help Australians navigate ongoing uncertainty. More than $3 billion has been committed to upgrade the National Broadband Network (NBN), extending high-speed fibre to 95% of homes and businesses.

Some of your most critical infrastructure runs on AWS EC2, so it's pretty damn important to know when your EC2 instances shut down. Sure, chances are someone in your organisation will start kicking and screaming within 30 minutes of a particularly important instance shutting down, but we can do better than that. When it comes to monitoring and customers (whether inside your org or outside), being proactive wins you a lot of points.

Understanding what’s happening inside your applications is key to keeping them performing well and reliably. OpenTelemetry tracing is an open-source, flexible solution that lets you monitor your distributed systems without locking you into a specific vendor. reliably This guide walks you through everything you need to know about OpenTelemetry tracing, from the basics to more advanced techniques, with practical tips for troubleshooting common issues along the way.

When Java web applications experience slowdowns or crashes, the culprit is often the Tomcat server. For DevOps engineers overseeing critical applications, proactive monitoring is crucial for ensuring optimal performance and reliability. In this guide, we'll explore the essential aspects of monitoring Apache Tomcat servers, focusing on the key metrics to track, setting up robust monitoring systems, and troubleshooting common performance issues that could impact your application’s stability.

GitHub, a platform offering version control and collaboration services for software development, plays a pivotal role in managing code, tracking issues and pull requests, and deploying software. As millions of developers and businesses rely on GitHub's infrastructure, its reliability is crucial. Tracking GitHub's outages and understanding their frequency is essential, particularly for organizations that depend on the platform for critical processes.

Cribl’s powerful data processing engine is designed specifically for IT and Security teams, enabling organizations to take control of their ever-growing data volumes. By simplifying the management, processing, and analysis of telemetry data, such as logs, metrics, and traces, generated across complex digital environments. This empowers organizations with the choice, control, and flexibility to manage and analyze data, allowing them to adapt to evolving needs and strategies.

In the present day’s digital world, a company’s website is more than just a digital shopfront important factor in customer experience, marketing, and company operations. With so much at stake on the performance of the Web and user engagement, organisations have to ensure that the websites are tuned both technically and for meeting visitor needs.