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How to run a proof of concept that de-risks your monitoring decision

Part 3, key insights from a fireside chat with Chris Yates. Read part 1 here, and part 2 here. Most database monitoring proof of concepts (POCs) answer the wrong questions. Here's how to structure a proof of concept that genuinely de-risks your vendor decision with the questions to ask during the process. A POC is often treated as the final hurdle in vendor evaluation, but too often, it becomes theatre. A guided tour of the flashiest features, run by one person, under unrealistic conditions.

End-to-End Trace Propagation Across SQS and Lambda with OpenTelemetry

SQS doesn't propagate trace context automatically. You instrument both sides, deploy, and get two disconnected traces. This post shows how to wire them into one waterfall — and the ESM format gotcha that silently breaks it every time. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

LogicMonitor Advances Autonomous IT with No Blind Spots, Trusted AI, and Closed-Loop Action

LogicMonitor is advancing Autonomous IT with one platform that brings together complete visibility, AI with context, and governed action across the digital environment. In this announcement video, Andrew Keating shares how LogicMonitor is helping enterprises reduce blind spots, trust AI more, and move from detection to action. Modern IT teams are managing more complexity, more tools, and more noise than ever. That’s why LogicMonitor is bringing infrastructure observability, Internet performance, digital experience, and AI-driven operations together in one platform.

Solving Data Center Complexity: How Hyperview's Cloud-Based DCIM Simplifies Operations and Cuts Costs

Managing a data center shouldn’t be a daunting task. Hyperview’s AI-powered DCIM makes it easier by providing intelligent solutions that streamline operations, offering relief from the chaos of traditional management systems.

Disaster Recovery Testing in Harness | Resilience Testing

In this video, we introduce Harness Resilience Testing and show you how to move beyond once-a-year DR drills to a continuously validated, pipeline-driven process. You'll see how Harness lets you validate regional failovers, check database replication lag under pressure, and confirm your hot standbys genuinely take over live traffic, all in one place. We also walk through a live DR test execution, showing exactly how Harness triggers the full failover sequence, runs every validation step automatically, and gives you a clear pass or fail result in real time.

Misconfigured Alert Detection: Find the Alerts That Need Tuning

Netdata ships with hundreds of stock alerts. They cover a wide range of infrastructure conditions and they’re designed with sensible defaults. But “sensible defaults” and “correct for your environment” are not the same thing. A CPU threshold that’s perfectly reasonable for a build server might generate constant noise on a machine running batch jobs.