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IT Pro Day 2026 | Every Day is Game Day

IT Pro Day isn’t just a day. It’s GAME DAY. The lights are on, the gear is ready, and IT Pros everywhere are locked in. At SolarWinds we celebrate the people who keep technology running, problems solved, and businesses moving. Because when the network goes down, the pressure is on. When systems need saving, IT Pros show up. Happy IT Pro Day from SolarWinds!

How Traceroute Works and How to Read Its Output During an Outage

Users report that an internal application has gone slow, the server dashboards look normal, and the network group says nothing changed on their side. So where between the user and the application does the time actually go? Much of that answer comes from traceroute. The command lists every router a packet crosses on the way to its destination, with a timing figure set against each one. Arguments about ownership then come down to a single device on a single route.

Bindplane Agent Is Here: Build, Edit, and Understand Pipelines in Plain Language

Pipeline Intelligence already recommends processors, reads live telemetry, detects log types, and generates processor bundles from natural language. But most of it lives inside a single processor node. You still have to know which one to open and what to ask for. This changes today. Bindplane Agent is your AI assistant inside Bindplane, ready to act on what you describe in plain language.

ScienceLogic Earns 2026 TrustRadius Tech Cares Award for Community Impact

ScienceLogic has been named a 2026 TrustRadius Tech Cares Award winner, marking our third time receiving the recognition. The Tech Cares Awards recognize B2B technology companies demonstrating meaningful corporate social responsibility through their support of employees, communities, and the environment.

Best DNS Monitoring Tools in 2026 [24 Analyzed]

The best DNS monitoring tools are Hyperping for fast DNS checks with on-call and a status page, Oh Dear for authoritative nameserver comparison and change history, Site24x7 for DNSSEC and global locations inside a suite, UptimeRobot for inexpensive DNS checks next to HTTP, and DNS Spy for dedicated DNS security and WHOIS. I analyzed 24 current products and shortlisted five. Every tool below can query DNS on a schedule and alert when the answer is missing or wrong.

Manage Cursor costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

AI coding tools such as Cursor are becoming a significant source of engineering spend. But Cursor costs can be difficult for FinOps teams to manage. Cursor’s usage data alone doesn’t tell you how costs break down across users and models, and fixed-threshold alerts may not catch an unusual cost spike if spend remains below the threshold. Datadog Cloud Cost Management (CCM) brings Cursor costs into the same place where you monitor cloud, SaaS, and other AI spend.

Monitor TAS and gang scheduling for AI training in Kubernetes

Distributed AI training workloads impose complex scheduling requirements that Kubernetes’s built-in scheduler can’t meet. Kubernetes schedules pods individually and independently, but distributed training introduces two requirements that break this model: Pods must land on hardware with the right inter-GPU bandwidth, and all pods must be scheduled simultaneously. If either requirement goes unmet, training stalls or runs far below the hardware’s potential.