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Monitoring CloudNativePG: What Changes When the Operator Owns Your Logs

Monitoring CloudNativePG: What Changes When the Operator Owns Your Logs

Oct 22, 2026 By Ryan Booz, Solutions Engineer at pganalyze In OpsMatters
Postgres operators like CloudNativePG (CNPG) have lowered the threshold for running highly available Postgres clusters on Kubernetes. Failover, replicas, backups, and rolling upgrades are handled by the operator, along with helpful niceties like automatic configuration of essential extensions. A few changes to a YAML manifest can provide a lot of value very quickly.
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What's new and coming in Redgate Monitor: AI, CIS compliance and cloud migration

Oct 21, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
This webinar covers what's new and coming in Redgate Monitor: AI with Redgate Assistant and the Redgate Monitor MCP server, CIS benchmark compliance checks and security alerting (Enterprise), AWS cloud migration advice for SQL Server workloads, and the roadmap into 2027. Redgate Monitor has shipped a lot this year, and there's more landing before the end of it. This session walks through what's new, what's coming over the next few months and into 2027, and what it all means for how you run your estate. Roadmap items are current direction, not commitments.
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Observability Lessons NVIDIA and CoreWeave

Oct 19, 2026 By PF Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
The best thing that can happen to an open-source project is to find its way into some of the world’s largest technology companies. In September 2026, this happened twice in one week: VictoriaMetrics is now officially bundled in the self-managed edition of NVIDIA’s Cloud Functions, and I learned that CoreWeave is using VictoriaMetrics as the metrics backend for all of its infrastructure customers. Both companies adopted VictoriaMetrics independently.
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Devart ODBC Drivers update brings SQL Server 2025, MySQL 9.7, and new Snowflake authentication methods

Oct 16, 2026 By dotConnect Team In Devart
The latest release of Devart ODBC Drivers is here, bringing support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025, MySQL 9.7.x, and NexusDB 4.75.20, along with new authentication methods, advanced data protection features, and improved compatibility with development tools and operating systems.
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Go, Logs and the Engineering Behind VictoriaLogs Performance

Oct 16, 2026 By MS Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
What actually makes a logging system fast? That was the question behind Tech Talk. And if you were expecting the answer to be a collection of clever Go optimizations, Jesús Espino, Principal Engineer at VictoriaMetrics, made an important point pretty early in our conversation: A huge part of VictoriaLogs’ performance comes from architecture and data structures. The micro-optimizations come later. Now that gave my Tech Talk partner in crime, Mathias Palmersheim, and me plenty to dig into.
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What Is Observability? It's More Than Metrics, Logs, and Traces

Oct 16, 2026 By MS Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
Modern systems, due to their distributed nature, rarely fail in simple ways. A request might pass through an API gateway, several microservices, a database, a message queue, and a third-party service before a response ever reaches a user. When something slows down or breaks, knowing that something is wrong is only the beginning. You need to figure out.
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Is Redgate Monitor a multi-platform tool or SQL Server only?

Oct 16, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Redgate Monitor is a multi-platform database monitoring tool, not a SQL Server only tool. It monitors SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Oracle, MySQL and MongoDB from a single dashboard, on premises or in the cloud. This demo shows SQL Server, PostgreSQL and Oracle instances in the Redgate Monitor live demo environment.
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Every change has a story: introducing Object Level History in Flyway Desktop

Oct 14, 2026 By David Higgins In Redgate
You open a stored procedure to make what should be a quick fix, and something doesn't add up. There's a filter you don't recognize, or a column that has changed type, or a join that looks like it was added in a hurry. Who changed this? When? And, most importantly, why? We're excited to announce that object level history is now available for Redgate Flyway Enterprise users of Flyway Desktop.
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The hidden cost of inconsistency in engineering teams | The Simple Talk Podcast

Oct 14, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
Engineering teams' time and money are often drained by mismatched tooling and poor habits, among other things. The Redgate Advocates share their own stories of this in reality - from a mysterious 47-second retry, to the one 'rogue' engineer who derails a team. They also discuss how to get everyone pulling in the same direction without forcing everything to be identical, and whether AI helps or hurts.
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Analyze Data & Create Reports Across Databases with dbForge Edge

Oct 13, 2026 By Devart In Devart
Analyze, visualize, and report database data across multiple database systems and cloud services with dbForge Edge. Write SQL queries or generate them with AI Assistant , analyze data with Pivot Tables, explore related records with Master-Detail Browser, visualize findings in charts, and create clear database reports — all within one multi-database solution.
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