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Prerendering Explained | Netlify

January 9, 2026 at 8:08 PM

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Prerendering explained: when bots visit, they get a fully rendered HTML snapshot instead of an empty SPA shell.

Great starting point if you are new to the concept.
www.netlify.com/blog/2016/11...

Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!

Optimize your AI workflows using Agent Runners, AI Gateway, the Netlify MCP Server, or other AI tools and learn best practices for building with AI whether you are an experienced developer, new to dev...

January 9, 2026 at 6:18 PM

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If you want one place to start: “Build with AI” docs hub.

It links AI Gateway + the surrounding ecosystem: docs.netlify.com/build/build-...

Overview

Introducing Observability: your project insights on Netlify | Netlify Developers

January 9, 2026 at 4:14 PM

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If you want the 5-minute tour: Quick Actions, filters, grouping, charts.

developers.netlify.com/videos/intro...

Learn how Netlify’s Observability feature helps you understand how your site behaves under real traffic.

developers.netlify.com

January 9, 2026 at 2:07 PM

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Throwback: Netlify shipped built-in prerendering way back in 2015 to help SPAs work better with crawlers and social previews.

Wild how relevant this is again.
www.netlify.com/blog/2015/10...

Netlify News No. 7 | Netlify

Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!

Credit-based pricing on Netlify, built for today’s AI development workflows

January 8, 2026 at 8:13 PM

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Pricing/credits is the boring part you should read early, especially if you’re building endpoints that can be spammed.

Netlify’s explanation: www.netlify.com/blog/new-pri...

New credit-based pricing built for today’s AI development workflows. One system, five categories, predictable costs. Existing plans stay unchanged.

Netlify Community Showcase [Jan 2026]

January 8, 2026 at 6:13 PM

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We’re live now! 📺

Come hang with the community and watch 4 projects get demo’d.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKpF...

Observability release is here

January 8, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Changelog drop: Observability is live.

Real-time visibility into requests, bandwidth, functions, Edge Functions, and more.

www.netlify.com/changelog/20...

Netlify Observability offers real-time visibility into the production performance and resource usage of your project.

Enable prerendering to help robots and crawlers navigate your single-page application and improve your project’s SEO. Choose between different prerendering options.

January 8, 2026 at 2:25 PM

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If your app is client-rendered, SEO and previews can suffer when bots do not execute JS.

Netlify Prerendering serves fully rendered HTML to the right crawlers.

Setup docs here:
docs.netlify.com/build/post-p...

Prerendering

Create, deploy, and run AI apps faster with Netlify

January 7, 2026 at 8:34 PM

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@biilmann.blog's 2026 predictions are out! 🎉

Big themes: True Computer Literacy, Claude Agent SDK + “true agents,” AX (Agent Experience), pipelines/sandboxes becoming the bottleneck, and the slow fade of syntax as the default interface.

biilmann.blog/articles/pre...

biilmann.blog

January 7, 2026 at 5:00 PM

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Strong “why now” post: building is faster; shipping isn’t.

AI Gateway fits into the “run it in production without friction” story: www.netlify.com/blog/create-...

AI sped up code creation, not the rest of the workflow. Netlify brings create, deploy, and run together with Observability, AI Gateway, and prerendering.

Netlify Observability: See what happens after every deploy

January 7, 2026 at 3:48 PM

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🔊 ICYMI: Netlify Observability is here! Stop guessing what’s happening after deploy.

Request metrics + function execution + usage signals, all in one place. www.netlify.com/blog/introdu...

See how your app behaves in production after every deploy. Netlify Observability unifies request metrics, function logs, and usage signals.

do-you-need-prerender.netlify.app

January 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM

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Not sure if you need prerendering?

Drop your URL into the Prerendering Checker and get a fast read on whether your important content is missing from initial HTML. do-you-need-prerender.netlify.app

Pre-render Analyzer

January 6, 2026 at 8:37 PM

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Prefer video? This is the “what it is / why it matters” explainer for AI Gateway.

Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzrz...

Introducing AI Gateway: built-in AI model access on Netlify

Prerendering for AI crawlers and modern SPAs on Netlify

January 6, 2026 at 3:57 PM

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Prerendering is back (and it matters more than ever).

If your SPA ships an empty HTML shell, some crawlers and AI bots will see…nothing.

The new Netlify Prerender extension fixes that. 🛠️
https://www.netlify.com/blog/prerendering-an-old-trick-new-again/

AI crawlers don’t run JavaScript. Netlify’s Prerender extension serves fully rendered HTML to search engines and AI agents without changing your app.

How Slack notifications keep development teams in sync on every deploy

January 5, 2026 at 11:11 PM

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Quickstart shows the exact dev loop: add an AI-backed endpoint in a Netlify Function, run it, deploy it.

January 5, 2026 at 5:50 PM

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New year. Same reality: breaches happen when small gaps stack up.

Run this checklist before your next release. It’s a fast sweep across dependencies, access, secrets, and protections you want on by default.

www.netlify.com/guides/secur...

Get real-time Slack alerts for deploys, failed builds, and config changes. Netlify Pro helps dev teams catch issues early and stay in control—even with AI tools

Fix top 404 page not found errors with Netlify Observability

January 5, 2026 at 2:27 PM

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🛠️ Fix Friday: 404s happen. The problem is not knowing which ones are getting hit, and by who.

Use real traffic to:
1. find top 404 routes
2. see referrers
3. prioritize redirects + broken links

Quick walkthrough:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_KK...

One-shot AI apps with Netlify AI Gateway

January 2, 2026 at 7:59 PM

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AI Gateway GA: fewer steps between “code exists” and “AI feature runs in prod.”

That’s the whole point.

AI Gateway lets agents ship real AI apps in one step. No API keys, no extra accounts; model access, billing, and guardrails built into Netlify.

From first publish to first update with AI agents

January 2, 2026 at 4:25 PM

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If you are doing “small updates” the hard way, watch this.

Nahrin Jalal uses Agent Runners to apply a site wide UI change and then swap and optimize a profile image, including alt text, before publishing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v774...

Observability | Production visibility without the setup

January 2, 2026 at 1:21 PM

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New year, same rule: if you can’t answer “what changed?” quickly, you’re guessing.

Observability is receipts, not vibes.
https://www.netlify.com/platform/observability/

Get instant visibility into how your app runs in production. Netlify Observability shows request metrics, function performance, and usage signals in one place.

Netlify Observability offers near real-time visibility into your project's production performance and resource usage. Monitor requests, bandwidth, runtime behavior, functions, and Edge Functions to un...

January 1, 2026 at 6:42 PM

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Steal this alert sanity check:

• errors up + traffic flat = regression
• latency up + traffic up = load
• errors up + traffic up = scaling or dependency
• errors flat + latency up = slow backend

Boring rules. Fewer fire drills.
docs.netlify.com/manage/monit...

Overview

Observability guide: monitor deploys, traffic, and production issues

December 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM

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ICYMI: 3 Netlify bookmarks if you’re shipping fast (and want fewer “why is prod on fire” moments).
👇🧵

December 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM

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If you want a dead-simple Observability demo:

“Show me the top erroring routes right now.”
Click the route. Trace the request. Tie it to a deploy. Ship the fix.

Find it. Understand it. Fix it. 👇
www.netlify.com/guides/runni...

Learn how to use Observability to validate deploys, diagnose production incidents, and track performance drift using real request data and platform context.