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Learn how to streamline deployment approvals with Harness CD native approval steps and configurable policies to reduce manual effort, improve consistency, and accelerate releases. Approvals shouldn’t cost you a shift. With Harness, the approval step lives inside your pipeline, so you get sign-off without the waiting and the glue code.

Renewing a certificate is the easy part. Getting it onto the server is where automation breaks. Somebody rotates the API token on the firewall. A service account password expires. A VM gets rebuilt and the agent never comes back. The certificate renews right on schedule, the deployment fails, and the server keeps serving the old certificate until it expires. Renewed and deployed are not the same thing.

We're excited to share that Honeycomb has achieved yet another Amazon Web Services (AWS) Competency—the Resilience Technology Competency—which recognizes our ability to help customers detect, investigate, and recover from failures in production systems running on AWS. While receiving the competency designation is a fantastic recognition of the capabilities of the Honeycomb platform (we also received one in Financial Services earlier this year), it's ultimately not the point.

Some users in Germany and the United Kingdom who reach Microsoft 365 through Global Secure Access (GSA) may have been unable to use Outlook, Outlook on the web, OneDrive, SharePoint Online, Microsoft Teams and Windows 365 Cloud PCs on October 13, 2026, according to Microsoft's service health updates as recorded by IncidentHub. Microsoft's final update records the start at 07:40 UTC and the end at 18:31 UTC the same day - about 10 hours 51 minutes - and narrows the geographic scope to Germany only.

Monitoring as code means defining hosts, checks, thresholds and notification rules in version-controlled files, and deploying them through review and automated validation, the same way infrastructure as code handles servers and networks. With Icinga you can do this with plain configuration files in Git, the Ansible collection maintained by NETWAYS, the Puppet modules maintained by Vox Pupuli, the Icinga Director, or the REST API from tools such as Terraform.

The first update to the MCP server since launch is out now, and the theme this time is servers. Your AI assistant can now change a server’s host-level settings, set up shared file systems for your containers, and show you what’s running on each machine and how much room is left.

This October, SIGNL4 is taking a big leap forward! One of our most comprehensive updates yet introduces AI-powered event routing, powerful new analytics to identify alert hotspots and trends, and instant visibility into on-call coverage gaps. Add smarter team and workflow management, plus enhanced security and compliance features, and there’s plenty to explore!

Our cloud agents now test mobile pull requests on cloud simulators and leave screenshots and a recording behind. The agent collects the evidence, and a person decides whether the change is right. More and more of the code in that app is written by coding agents. Of the 144 pull requests opened against it in the last two weeks, 99 were opened with Claude Code or Cursor. The agents are good at writing the change. What they couldn't do was show it to you.