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For many organizations, digital employee experience (DEX) is still viewed as an IT project. It measures endpoint health, identifies performance issues, and helps service desks resolve incidents faster. While that’s useful, it’s also far too small a vision. In order to get the greatest return from DEX, organizations have to stop treating it as exclusively an engineering capability and started treating it as an equally powerful intelligence capability.

This month is about shortening the path from detecting a problem to fixing it. You can now create GitHub or Linear issues directly from Scout, Node.js now has complete logs and error monitoring, and Anomaly Detection gets more control over what actually triggers an alert. Here’s what’s new in July.

We’re proud to share that the Progress WhatsUp Gold solution has been recognized as a Leader in the QKS Group SPARK Matrix: Network Observability report, ahead of other vendors such as SolarWinds, Paessler PRTG and LogicMonitor to name a few. The recognition highlights the WhatsUp Gold network monitoring capabilities that help organizations gain deeper visibility into complex network environments while delivering impactful benefits for customers.

Every so often we sit down with someone from our support team and turn their week into a blog post. First up: Roberto Vizcarra, on four things generating tickets lately, AI credits, student plans, integrations, and Mac performance. Here’s what changed and what to do about it.

Slow application complaints are among the hardest tickets in IT to close. The network gets blamed first; the dashboard shows nothing wrong, and the ticket bounces between teams for a week. Network latency sits at the centre of that argument more often than any other metric. Most dashboards report latency as a single average, and that average hides the slow requests people actually notice. A path can average 30 ms and still drop a call every ten minutes.

How many machines in your environment are running software with a publicly documented security flaw right now? That figure comes from an asset inventory, and asset records age quickly once they are written. The gap is rarely about tooling budgets. Software inventory across a few hundred endpoints shifts every week, while the published catalogue of flaws in that software grows every single day. Manual inspection loses that race inside the first month.

Bring network provisioning into your workflow with Megaport CLI, built for repeatable changes from the terminal, scripts, and CI/CD pipelines. When everything runs through a pipeline, changes are reviewable, repeatable, and consistent from staging to production. Your application code ships that way. Your cloud resources provision that way. Then you need a Megaport connection. So you open the Portal, and step outside the pipeline.

Migration projects fail in a predictable sequence. The technical work gets scoped. The timeline gets set. The engineering team starts moving workloads. Somewhere in the middle, dependencies surface that weren't in the original assessment, the double-run period extends beyond the budget allocated for it, and the project either stalls or completes at significantly higher cost than planned.

Server monitoring is still one of the most important disciplines in IT operations because servers remain central to application performance. That is why server monitoring tools remain essential for maintaining infrastructure health, ensuring application availability, and delivering consistent user experiences across modern IT environments.