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Alert Fatigue in IT: Why Your Team Stops Listening (And How to Fix It)

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 07:07:33 GMT

Quick question. When was the last time anyone on the team actually read a monitoring alert, word for word, before dismissing it? Not skimmed. Read.

Take a second with that one. If the honest answer is "can't remember," alert fatigue has already moved in. It doesn't show up with some dramatic outage or a red banner screaming for attention. It's quieter than that, and slower. Hundreds of small, forgettable pings, week after week, and then one random Tuesday someone realizes nobody on the team trusts the alert system anymore. They just click things away. Swipe, dismiss, next.

AI Infrastructure Monitoring: Why Your AI Stack Is Only as Strong as What Runs Underneath

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 06:50:57 GMT

Funny thing about IT lately. Everyone's talking about machine learning models, training pipelines, whatever flashy thing some company just shipped. Almost nobody talks about the boring stuff underneath. The servers. The network. That storage volume slowly filling up while nobody's watching. That part gets ignored right up until it breaks, and then it's suddenly the only thing anyone cares about.

The Right Support at the Right Time: Introducing PRTG Premium Support

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 07:07:14 GMT

Every IT environment is different. Some teams are small, agile, and handle most things in-house. Others run large, distributed infrastructures where every minute of downtime has real consequences. Our new PRTG support model is built around exactly that reality.

Three new sensors, smarter monitoring: PRTG 26.2.120 is here

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 11:47:03 GMT

We just released PRTG version 26.2.120 to the stable release channel, and it comes with a lot to talk about. Three new sensors graduate from BETA or join the lineup for the first time, a brand-new AI chatbot lands in the New UI, and a range of security hardening measures, server improvements, and sensor fixes round out this release.

6 DevOps Automation and Integration Best Practices

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:01:10 GMT

There's a gap that lives in almost every DevOps team, and it goes something like this: you've automated the pipeline, the deployments are running, the CI/CD is humming - and then something breaks in production and nobody knew until a user filed a ticket.

Proxmox VE Monitoring Done Right: How PRTG Keeps Your VMs, Containers, and Cluster in Check

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:30:01 GMT

If you've made the switch from VMware to Proxmox VE - or you're seriously considering it - you already know that monitoring can't be an afterthought. The Broadcom acquisition changed the economics of VMware practically overnight, and for many organizations, Proxmox VE became the obvious answer: open source, proven in production, no licensing surprises. But switching hypervisors is one thing. Making sure your new environment is properly monitored is another.

Never Miss a Patch Again: How to Monitor Windows Updates Across Your Entire Infrastructure

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:30:00 GMT

Every IT admin has been there. A critical vulnerability drops, and suddenly you're scrambling to figure out which machines are patched and which aren't. In a small environment, that's annoying. In a network with hundreds of endpoints across multiple sites? It's a genuine nightmare. And here's the thing — without proper Windows update monitoring, just one unpatched Windows server can become the door that attackers walk right through.

Windows Server Monitoring Best Practices: How to Keep Your Server Performance Under Control

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 06 May 2026 07:30:00 GMT

Your Windows server goes down at 2 a.m. on a Friday. Nobody noticed the warning signs - disk space had been creeping up for days, CPU usage spiked every evening around 6 p.m., and the event logs were practically screaming for attention. The on-call admin gets woken up. The helpdesk starts filling with tickets. And somewhere, a manager is asking why nobody saw this coming.

Bridging IT and OT: Paessler PRTG and Bosch Rexroth ctrlX World

daniel.sukowski@paessler.com (Daniel Sukowski) — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 07:02:25 GMT

How a strategic ecosystem partnership and a real-world Smart Factory deployment redefine convergent industrial monitoring.

Power Monitoring Made Simple: How to Monitor UPS Systems and PDUs in Real-Time

michael.becker@paessler.com (Michael Becker) — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 07:30:00 GMT

Ask any IT admin about their worst day at work, and there's a good chance power was involved. Not because power failures are common - but because when they happen unmonitored, the damage is immediate and often avoidable. A UPS battery that should have been replaced six months ago. A rack PDU running dangerously close to its limit. Small things, until they aren't. Then the power flickers. Your UPS systems kick in - or at least, they're supposed to. But how confident are you that your battery backup has enough runtime left? Or that your power distribution units aren't already running at the edge of their capacity? If you're honest, that confidence might be shakier than you'd like.