Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Introducing Shift-Based Schedules: Smarter, Faster, and Easier for Any Team

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.

VictoriaMetrics April 2026 Ecosystem Updates

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.

The cost of knowledge

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.

Improved debugging for Expo apps with the React Native SDK

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.

Introducing AppSignal Labs

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.

Rovo makes AI-native teamwork real for the enterprise

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.

How to Measure your Most Expensive Milliseconds

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.

Bias Toward Action: Driving AI Innovation Across Global Networks with Greg Freeman

What does it take to lead innovation across one of the world’s largest telecommunications networks? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Greg Freeman, Vice President of Network and Customer Transformation at Lumen Technologies, to explore how AI, automation, and curiosity are reshaping the future of network operations.