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datadog

Explore Datadog metrics with Natural Language Queries

May 19, 2026 By Racheal Ou In Datadog
Metric exploration often begins with a simple question, but answering that question can require deep familiarity with metric names, tag structures, and query syntax. Experienced users spend time refining queries through trial and error, and newer users struggle to get started. As a result, teams face delays in troubleshooting and analysis. Valuable observability data, including metrics that are difficult to discover and query, also goes underused.
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observiq

Multiple API Keys Are Here - More Keys, Better Control, Stronger Security

May 19, 2026 By Brian Gardner In ObservIQ
Today we're rolling out a major upgrade to API Keys in Bindplane. You can now create up to 25 API keys per project, give each one a description, set an expiration date, and delete keys you no longer need. Under the hood, every key is now hashed with Argon2, the modern standard for credential storage. If you've been working around the old single-key limit by sharing one key across CI jobs, scripts, and teammates, this release is for you.
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influxdata

Community Spotlight: A Native iOS App for Your InfluxDB Data

May 19, 2026 By Ashley Fowler In InfluxData
One of the things we love most about building an open source platform is seeing what the community creates with it, and independent developer Anton Havekes recently built something we just had to share. Anton put together Influx Dashboard, a native iOS app that connects to your InfluxDB instance and brings your time series data straight to your phone. We’re genuinely thrilled to see this kind of work come out of the community.
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How Ecommerce Brands Track Regional Price Differences Online

How Ecommerce Brands Track Regional Price Differences Online

May 19, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Many online stores display different prices depending on the user's location. The same product may cost less in Eastern Europe, more in the United States, and have completely different discounts in Germany or France. There are several reasons for this: This is especially common in marketplaces, electronics, fashion, and travel-related ecommerce. For international brands, understanding these pricing differences has become an important part of market analytics.
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Commercial Trucking Technology for Better Driver Awareness

Commercial Trucking Technology for Better Driver Awareness

May 19, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Modern highways demand constant focus from professional drivers. New tools help fleets stay safe on long trips across the country. Fleet operators can monitor road hazards much better than in past decades. New onboard systems protect both the driver and the cargo from unexpected road events. High highway speeds mean split-second decisions dictate safety margins. Stay aware of your surroundings to prevent severe accidents before they happen. New updates give teams better visibility than ever. Drivers feel more secure when they have technology backing them up on dark roads.
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motadata

Server Monitoring: The Complete Guide to Metrics, Tools, and Best Practices

May 18, 2026 By Motadata Team In Motadata
If you run IT operations, you already know servers carry most of what your business depends on: When a server slows down or goes offline, the impact spreads fast, and the team feels it before the dashboard does. That's the core problem server monitoring is built to solve. It watches the health and performance of your servers continuously, so issues get caught early instead of becoming outages. The cost of getting these wrong keeps climbing.
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Cribl Notebook templates in Cribl Search

May 18, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Investigations are time-sensitive, and analysts shouldn’t waste time recreating the same workflows or rewriting familiar queries. Whether troubleshooting infrastructure, investigating suspicious IPs, or analyzing host activity, teams often rely on duplicating old processes and copying query snippets — a slow, inconsistent approach that’s hard to scale.
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honeycomb

How Honeycomb Is Embracing the Challenges of End-to-End Observability with Embrace

May 18, 2026 By Howard Yoo In Honeycomb
Customers regularly come to us looking to solve their observability problem by connecting the dots from frontend to backend. It sounds straightforward in theory, but in practice it's one of the hardest problems in modern application monitoring. The frontend monitoring tools they already have in place tend to be proprietary or narrowly scoped to frontend needs, leaving them without the context-rich backend data that makes real triage possible.
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