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OpsGenie Is Shutting Down in 10 Months: Your Migration Playbook (2026)
Comparisons May 26, 2026 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 3 reads
OpsGenie Is Shutting Down in 10 Months: Your Migration Playbook (2026)

Atlassian is shutting down OpsGenie on April 5, 2027. This guide covers the full alternatives landscape โ€” PagerDuty, Grafana Cloud IRM, incident.io, Squadcast, JSM, and StatusPage.me โ€” with real pricing, the 2022 outage backstory, and a step-by-step migration checklist.

Best Practices for Large Status Pages
Monitoring May 23, 2026 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 2 reads
Best Practices for Large Status Pages

Learn how to structure large status pages with many components using groups, collapsed sections, affected-system summaries, and clear incident communication.

Milan, Italy Is Now a Live Monitoring Region, Here's Why It Matters
Product Update May 12, 2026 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 4 reads
Milan, Italy Is Now a Live Monitoring Region, Here's Why It Matters

We just turned on a monitoring server in Milan. Here's the honest reasoning behind it, and why we think geographic coverage is a proxy for something more important.

The CrowdStrike Outage: What the Largest IT Failure in History Teaches Us About Incident Communication
Incidents Apr 30, 2026 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 2 reads
The CrowdStrike Outage: What the Largest IT Failure in History Teaches Us About Incident Communication

On July 19, 2024, a single CrowdStrike sensor update took down 8.5 million Windows devices worldwide. Here's what their incident communication got right, what it got terribly wrong, and what every engineering team should take from it.

Atlassian Statuspage vs StatusPage.me: An Honest Comparison (2026)
Comparisons Apr 28, 2026 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 3 reads
Atlassian Statuspage vs StatusPage.me: An Honest Comparison (2026)

Atlassian Statuspage is the market leader โ€” but it has no built-in monitoring, requires OpsGenie for on-call (shutting down April 2027), and needs a third separate tool for uptime checks. Here's what the full stack actually looks like.

We Simplified Our Plans (Without Changing Pricing)
Product Update Mar 25, 2026 ๐Ÿ‘๏ธ 4 reads
We Simplified Our Plans (Without Changing Pricing)

We reorganized our plans to better reflect how teams actually use StatusPage.me without changing pricing.