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From Monitoring to Prediction: How Fleet Data Is Changing Maritime Operations

Most maritime operators already collect more fleet data than their shore teams can meaningfully use. Positions appear on screens, real-time data arrives from onboard systems, and reports document vessel performance throughout a voyage. Tracking where a ship is has become the easy part. The harder question is what happens when that information starts indicating what the vessel will do next. The change in maritime operations comes down to shifting from reviewing events to anticipating them early enough to alter an operational decision.

Monitor HTTPS and SVCB Records with DNS Check

DNS Check now supports monitoring HTTPS records and SVCB records, DNS record types 65 and 64, both standardized in RFC 9460. They tell a client how to connect to a service rather than only where it is: which HTTP versions the endpoint speaks, which port it listens on, which addresses it can start connecting to, and which keys it needs for Encrypted ClientHello, all before it opens a connection.

Hybrid cloud management: 6 challenges IT teams need to solve in 2026

In 2026, a hybrid cloud is no longer something organizations are working toward; it's already where they are. According to Forrester's The State Of Cloud Series 2026, the vast majority of enterprises across major markets, including the United States, India, Australia and New Zealand, Canada, and the Asia-Pacific region, are running some form of a hybrid cloud, combining public cloud platforms with private infrastructure, colocation data centers, and sovereign cloud providers.

Build incident response workflows with Datadog Bits Chat

See how Bits Chat turns a natural-language request into an automated incident response workflow. In this demo, Bits Chat builds a workflow that investigates a monitor alert, identifies whether a recent deployment caused the issue, rolls it back when appropriate, and sends a summary to Slack.

Reliability Is the Test Agentic NetOps Has to Pass

It is 2:14 a.m. An agent has correlated a latency spike to an asymmetric routing condition and is ready to reroute traffic away from the affected path. The plan looks right. The only question that matters to the on-call SRE is whether to let it run, and that question is not really about the agent. It is about whether the picture the agent reasoned from is complete enough to trust at 2 a.m. with production on the line.

Help Desk Software for Schools: Managing IT Support Across Campuses

How many support requests reach school IT staff each week without ever becoming a ticket? A teacher stops a technician in the corridor about a projector that will not connect. An office administrator sends a direct email about a locked account, and a student tells the librarian their laptop stopped charging during second period. Help desk software for schools collects those requests into one queue, routes them by site and category, and keeps a record of what was done.

Agent vs Agentless Monitoring and How to Decide What Goes Where

Why does half the infrastructure end up returning no monitoring data? The standard plan is to install collection software on everything, which moves quickly across servers and stops dead at the first device running closed firmware. Storage arrays, firewalls, and switches will never accept an install, and the rollout stalls there. That plan usually gets set once for the whole environment, with a single collection model applied to hardware it was never suited for.

How to Cut SIEM Ingest by 90% Without Losing Detection Coverage

Every SOC team knows the trade-off. Send everything to the SIEM platform and pay for it. Or filter aggressively and risk missing something. Filter lists are written once, during onboarding. Detection content keeps moving after that. Smart Engine, the new core of the VirtualMetric DataStream pipeline, takes the guesswork out of that decision. It reduces SIEM ingest using your registered detection rules. An event that no registered detection could match is dropped.

Live Debugging for Critical Systems: MTBF, MTTR & MTTA

A critical system has to stay reliable without new failures or added downtime, and live debugging, confirming the root cause without stopping the system, is often the only way to do that. In practice, this means having runtime context: on-demand evidence generated at the point of failure rather than logging configured months earlier, which is what keeps MTBF up, MTTR, and MTTA down.

Can we live dangerously? Sandboxing Claude, and the Claude foreman that runs the rest

While logging into one’s LinkedIn will spew out endless talk of AI possibilities from “thought leaders” and the semi-disconnected alike, another pocket of the world spent the last few weeks watching the Shai-Hulud worm chew through npm. A self-propagating credential stealer that hit 400-plus packages and, delightfully, planted Claude Code and VS Code hooks so just opening the repo could run its payload.