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Smart Home Monitoring with InfluxDB 3, Google Nest, and Grafana

Your smart home devices generate vast amounts of scattered data—this tutorial shows you how to centralize it into a unified platform using InfluxDB 3 and Grafana. You’ll not only track your home’s vital signs but also learn professional software development concepts, such as time series database design and building resilient data pipelines, applicable to various monitoring and analytics systems. Before we begin, ensure you have.

Ipl-html: Introducing new Form Element Decorators

Decorators have always been a powerful concept in Icinga Web’s form system — letting developers control how form elements are displayed without hardcoding markup everywhere. But until recently, the decorator system had its limits. The new implementation of form element decorators completely reimagines this approach, offering cleaner logic and better flexibility. In this article, we’ll explore what’s new, why it’s better, and how to use it effectively in your own forms.

What is OpenTelemetry? [Everything You Need to Know]

Observability used to be a fragmented mess. You had one agent for logs, a different library for metrics, and a proprietary SDK for distributed tracing. If you wanted to switch vendors, you had to rewrite your instrumentation code from scratch. OpenTelemetry (OTel) fixed this. It has become the second most active project in the CNCF (Cloud Native Computing Foundation), right behind Kubernetes.

Beginner's Guide to OpenTelemetry & Django (2025)

Django is a popular open-source "batteries-included" Python web framework that enables rapid development while taking out much of the hassle from routine web development. By providing pre-built components like ORM integrations, authentication/authorization systems and more, it enables developers to focus on business logic and iterate fast. As such, developers and organizations worldwide use Django to build web apps of varying complexities.

How MSPs can simplify multi-cloud cost management for their customers

Multi-cloud cost management has quickly evolved from a nice-to-have capability to a core expectation with the accelerated adoption of the cloud. Organizations that depend on managed service providers (MSPs) for cloud operations now look to them for financial clarity as well. Now, MSPs are not only expected to monitor and manage cloud usage, but also to act as trusted cost advisors. They must deliver transparency, predictability, and strong governance across all the cloud environments their customers use.

FinOps Strategy for Hybrid IT: Interview with Tim Conley

FinOps continues to grow in importance as organizations balance cloud services with on-prem systems, legacy applications, and evolving business demands. Many teams want to manage their costs more effectively but are unsure how to apply a FinOps strategy for hybrid IT outside the cloud.

How To Enable Real-Time Endpoint Visibility for L1 Support:

In today’s digital workplace, speed and precision in IT support can make or break the employee experience. Long resolution times, repetitive troubleshooting, and lack of visibility often frustrate both users and support teams. That’s where Nexthink comes in—bringing powerful capabilities like Amplify, Device View,and Assist to transform how Service Desk teams operate.

[Webinar] How AI monitoring can cut downtime twice as fast as traditional tools

Unlock the future of IT monitoring with Site24x7’s advanced AI capabilities! In this exclusive webinar, Varalakshmi, Site24x7 product specialist, guides you through Site24x7’s unified observability platform. Discover how Site24x7 uses AI to solve modern IT challenges like eliminating tool sprawl, reducing alert fatigue, and enabling faster, more accurate RCA. We also explore relatable customer scenarios for dynamic anomaly detection, predictive forecasting, automated event correlation, cloud cost forecasting, and AI-powered ITOps with Zia.

Monitor Temporal Workflows seamlessly: Introducing the Temporal Cloud integration for Grafana Cloud

Nishad Krishnan is a Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies, where he’s focused on observability and making the “unknown unknowns” slightly less unknown. At Temporal Technologies, our goal is to make it easier for developers to build and operate reliable, scalable applications without sacrificing productivity. Our platform, Temporal, helps ensure that code runs to completion once started, no matter how long it takes or what failures occur along the way.

Pastries with SREs: Enriched logs and filled donuts

In this episode of Pastries and SREs, we take a sweet dive into one of the most exciting evolutions in observability: enriched logs, also known as wide events. Gone are the days of toggling between tools and stitching together logs, metrics, and traces. Enriched logs consolidate the context, providing everything you need to understand and resolve issues in a single log entry. We explore.