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Why Dedicated Incident Channels are the Modern Standard for Slack-Based Incident Response

May 6, 2026 By Cristina Dias In PagerDuty
Where do your teams go during a critical incident? For distributed teams, that war room is a channel in Slack or Microsoft Teams. The question is: are you creating a dedicated space for each incident, or are responders scrambling across DMs, email threads, and general channels trying to piece together what happened? The answer matters. Using dedicated incident channels has become the industry standard for high-performing incident response teams.
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Activate Your Continuous Learning Flywheel With Post-Incident Reviews in PagerDuty UI

May 6, 2026 By Cristina Dias In PagerDuty
Earlier this year at our H1 2026 launch, we announced PagerDuty’s vision for autonomous operations: a future where AI agents learn from every incident, prevent failures before they happen, and progressively automate so teams can focus on innovation instead of firefighting.
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Introducing Shift-Based Schedules: Smarter, Faster, and Easier for Any Team

May 6, 2026 By Camden Louie In PagerDuty
This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how PagerDuty’s Shift-Based Schedules (planned GA in May) builds towards this vision. PagerDuty has long been the gold standard for on-call management, helping thousands of teams build the foundations of digital reliability.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

May 6, 2026 By Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
We’re excited to learn that our vmagent helped Airbnb migrate its high-volume metrics pipeline from StatsD and Veneur to OpenTelemetry. Airbnb is now handling 100 million samples per second. You can read more about the migration in these articles: In other news, April saw releases across the VictoriaMetrics Observability Stack. We have released several important bugfixes for VictoriaMetrics and many new features in VictoriaLogs. This release round-up covers updates for.
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coralogix

The cost of knowledge

May 6, 2026 By Ofri Grushka In Coralogix
In the world of observability, “cardinality” has become a heavy word. It is a ghost used to justify skyrocketing bills or degraded query performance. When cardinality rises, the advice is almost always the same: reduce it. Drop your labels, or reduce the dimensions. It is usually framed as “optimization.” Every label you add to a metric is a dimension of knowledge. Each one gives you a way to slice, compare, and explain the chaos of production.
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sentry

Improved debugging for Expo apps with the React Native SDK

May 6, 2026 By Aleksandr Pantiukhov In Sentry
Events from Expo apps account for about 75% of the total event volume we receive from React Native apps. That number made it an easy decision to invest in updates to the Sentry React Native SDK to improve the debugging and performance workflow for your Expo apps. With these updates, you can now.
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appsignal

Introducing AppSignal Labs

May 6, 2026 By Serena Chou In AppSignal
We've been shipping faster. A dark mode for the UI, AppSignal MCP, the AWS dashboard templates — things we would have kept internal a year ago until everything was polished. Now we don't. A v1 in your hands beats a v3 in our heads. We learn more from a week of real use than from a quarter of internal review. So we're giving that work a home. AppSignal Labs is where you'll find the earlier versions. Real software, available today, with a direct line to the team building it.
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Rovo makes AI-native teamwork real for the enterprise

May 6, 2026 By Atlassian In Atlassian
AI-native teamwork is here. With your team's context connected via the Teamwork Graph, Rovo moves beyond “answer this” to “take this on” with: Max mode in Rovo Chat that completes complex tasks autonomously (coming soon!) The new, unified builder experience in Rovo Studio is now generally available to put your AI to work. Teamwork Graph-powered agents are now available across your entire stack. New enterprise-grade controls to manage and secure agents at scale.
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How to Measure your Most Expensive Milliseconds

May 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
In the fast-paced world of mobile development, reliability rarely fails with a loud crash; instead, it degrades quietly through micro-regressions that erode user trust and engagement. While most companies track backend health and API latency, they often fly blind regarding the actual screen-level responsiveness that defines the true user experience. When Expedia Group underwent a major technical evolution, the team realized they lacked a consistent baseline to compare performance across platforms, leaving them unable to validate improvements before rollout.
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