We have been cooking up some large internal changes for the multi-platform probe. Soon, probe-to-core communication will happen over the modern internet communication protocol QUIC. If you have recently watched a YouTube video or otherwise used HTTP/3, then you will have used QUIC already.

The IT skills shortage is not a future problem. It is already showing up in every helpdesk ticket that waits an extra day and every project that gets pushed back a quarter. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics projects that computer and information technology occupations will grow much faster than average through 2034, with tens of thousands of open roles appearing every year that nobody is lining up to fill. For IT administrators, that gap rarely shows up as a headline. It shows up as one more alert at 2 a.m. that only you can answer, because there is nobody else scheduled to answer it.

We just released PRTG version 26.3.122 to the stable release channel,  and it brings a full package: seven brand new sensors, ten sensors that graduate from BETA, three experimental additions, and a range of security and server improvements

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.