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statusgator

New integration: OptiSigns

Jul 24, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
We’re excited to introduce our first Digital Signage integration with OptiSigns. You can now display your StatusGator board on TVs and digital signage screens, giving everyone in your office real-time visibility into vendor outages, maintenance events, and service health. The display updates automatically whenever monitored services change, helping teams stay informed without opening another app.
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statusgator

Azure outage on July 23, 2026: StatusGator detected it 1 hour before Microsoft acknowledged it

Jul 24, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
On July 23, 2026, Azure users around the world began hitting gateway timeouts, DNS failures, and unreachable virtual machines well before Microsoft posted anything on its status page. The first reports reached StatusGator at 15:06 UTC. By 15:28 UTC, StatusGator had sent an Early Warning Signal to subscribers. Microsoft did not acknowledge the incident until 16:29 UTC.
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incidenthub

The July 23 2026 Azure West US Outage: IP Route Removal and Downstream Impact

Jul 24, 2026 By Hrishikesh Barua In IncidentHub
On July 23, 2026, Microsoft Azure experienced a connectivity outage in the West US region that blocked traffic entering or leaving the region for nearly five hours. Workloads that stayed entirely inside West US were not affected. Microsoft's preliminary Post Incident Review (PIR) attributes the failure to a bug in maintenance request conversion software that removed IP routes from more devices than intended during routine device maintenance.
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solarwinds

5 Best Password Management Software

Jul 24, 2026 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
An average business user must deal with tens, if not hundreds, of passwords daily. Therefore, getting password management right in a business environment may seem like a daunting task. The largest players tend to pick one of the enterprise-grade solutions to ensure security and flexibility, as well as enjoy plenty of extra features that make their processes more efficient. Read on as we walk you through our selection of what we believe is the best password management software out there.
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OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (Grafana OTel Community Call #9)

Jul 24, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
In this episode of the Grafana OTel Community Call, we're exploring OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI). OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation (OBI) offers a powerful way to instrument applications at the system kernel level, capturing essential “RED metrics” — request rate, error rate, and duration — and network flows without requiring code changes, rebuilds, or redeployments. We will cover the project's architecture, discuss its origins as Grafana Beyla, and look ahead to the roadmap for language and runtime coverage.
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nexthink

How Claude Mythos Changes the Future of Vulnerability Management: Fixing, Not Finding

Jul 24, 2026 By Nexthink In Nexthink
Anthropic’s Claude Mythos shows how AI is making vulnerability discovery nearly infinite. Endpoint remediation is where IT teams win or lose. In April 2026, Anthropic introduced Claude Mythos Preview, an AI model that autonomously discovered thousands of previously unknown vulnerabilities across every major operating system and web browser. By late May, the running total had passed 23,000 potential findings, and the vast majority were still unpatched.
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atatus

GCP Monitoring: A Complete Guide to Monitoring Google Cloud Applications and Infrastructure

Jul 24, 2026 By Mohana Ayeswariya J In Atatus
Most production incidents in Google Cloud don't announce themselves as infrastructure problems. A checkout service on GKE starts timing out, a Cloud Function cold-starts under load, a Cloud SQL replica falls behind, and a Pub/Sub subscription quietly backs up until messages start expiring. None of that shows up as a red node in a compute dashboard. It shows up as slow requests, failed webhooks, and a support queue filling up faster than anyone can triage it.
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motadata

How to Choose the Right Infrastructure Monitoring Tool

Jul 24, 2026 By Motadata Team In Motadata
A production service degrades, and one question decides the next hour: is it the server, the network, or a cloud dependency? Each layer usually reports into a separate console, so pinning down the answer can absorb an hour the business would rather not lose. The right infrastructure monitoring tool is what turns that hour into minutes. On paper, most monitoring platforms look identical. Each one promises full-stack visibility and shows a polished dashboard.
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nexthink

Patching Alone Can't Keep Pace with Mythos. These 6 Nexthink Library Packs Can.

Jul 24, 2026 By Nexthink In Nexthink
Most vulnerability programs were built around a known list of CVEs, scanned periodically and scored by severity. The Anthropic’s Claude Mythos era breaks that model, because the vulnerabilities that matter most are often undisclosed, unscored, and absent from any feed. The organizations that close the gap will be the ones that treat real-time exposure and remediation velocity as the core capability, not the patch backlog.
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sentry

Session Replay for Unreal Engine: see the crash before the crash

Jul 24, 2026 By Ivan Tustanivskyi In Sentry
You know the drill: a crash report lands in your queue with a pristine stack trace pointing at some innocent-looking function and absolutely no clue about what the player was actually doing. Were they mid-boss-fight? Alt-tabbing during a loading screen? Standing perfectly still in the tutorial? QA can’t repro it, the player’s bug report says “game crashed lol,” and you’re left staring at a callstack playing twenty questions with a core dump.
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obkio

Introducing Obkio's Network Quality Widget: See Network Health at a Glance

Jul 23, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
We've been making a series of improvements across Obkio’s Network Monitoring and Observability application, and a lot of that work has been focused on one goal: simplifying not just how we show network performance data, but how easy it is to actually interpret and understand that data. Not everyone monitoring a network has the time, or the networking background, to dig through graphs line by line to figure out what's going on.
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nexthink

Why One Process Can Slow an Entire VDI Environment

Jul 23, 2026 By Dennis Damen In Nexthink
When users report slow virtual desktops, the first instinct is often to check CPU or memory utilization. But what happens when those metrics look perfectly healthy, yet users across the environment are still complaining about slow application launches, lagging desktops and poor performance? In many cases, the bottleneck lies elsewhere. Storage is often overlooked during initial investigations, but in VDI environments it can have a disproportionate impact on the user experience.
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eg innovations

Digital Experience Monitoring (DEM): Complete Guide to Improving User Experience

Jul 23, 2026 By Rachel Berry In eG Innovations
Digital experiences have become the primary way customers interact with businesses, public services and organizations. Whether customers are shopping online, accessing banking services, booking appointments, or using SaaS platforms, their perception of a brand is increasingly shaped by the performance and reliability of its digital services. This is where digital experience monitoring (DEM) becomes essential. Even minor performance issues can have significant business impacts.
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grafana

How to monitor your Supabase projects: connect Grafana Cloud in one click

Jul 23, 2026 By Logan Smith In Grafana
As AI agents accelerate software development and spin up applications at scale, visibility into what's happening behind the scenes, including query performance and database health, has never been more important. Gaining that level of insight requires observability that can keep pace.
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grafana

A new allowlists design for Grafana Cloud IP addresses: What you need to know

Jul 23, 2026 By Pablo Angulo In Grafana
If your network restricts inbound or outbound traffic, you likely maintain an allowlist of Grafana Cloud IP addresses so your systems and Grafana Cloud can talk to each other. Today we're introducing a new allowlists design: a single, structured API that replaces the collection of per-product lists we've published until now. If you don't use IP allowlisting—or you connect to Grafana Cloud over private connectivity such as AWS PrivateLink—nothing changes for you, and no action is needed.
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datadog

Provision Datadog on Stripe Projects

Jul 23, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Stripe Projects reduces the manual work of setting up, managing, and paying for third-party SaaS solutions. You can now use it to get started with Datadog in just two commands: If your Stripe account has a verified email address, running those commands in the Stripe CLI gives you a Datadog organization with a 14-day free trial and an automatically generated API key that is ready to use. You avoid email verification loops, tab-switching to copy an API key out of a dashboard, and lengthy sign-up forms.
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datadog

Efficient multi-provider agent environments with AI gateways: best practices

Jul 23, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Organizations are increasingly using multiple models to build AI agents in order to find the best balance of performance and cost for each agentic task and LLM call. As we discovered in the 2026 State of AI Engineering report, there isn’t currently a clear winner in terms of adoption among competing models and many organizations are keeping older models in flight despite frequent new releases.
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lightrun

Why Static Reachability Isn't Enough for CVE Remediation

Jul 23, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
Most CVE remediation tools can tell you that a vulnerability could be exploited. Few can confirm whether it actually is. A scanner flags the same CVE in two services and marks both as vulnerable. Only one of them ever runs the flawed code in production. That gap, reachable in theory versus reachable in fact, is the real problem, and static analysis alone cannot close it.
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elastic

Elastic's new metrics capabilities will dramatically improve uptime for public sector IT

Jul 23, 2026 By Leanne Link In Elastic
The new columnar metrics engine in Elastic Observability enables public sector IT teams to combine logging, metrics, and traces in one platform. As a result, SREs can improve uptime while protecting taxpayer dollars in the process. Public sector site reliability engineers (SREs) operate under a distinct set of pressures, whether that’s supporting a federal agency, a health department, a public university, or a transit authority.
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dns spy

Send DNS Spy Alerts to Your SIEM: Introducing Webhook Alerts

Jul 23, 2026 By DNS Spy In DNS Spy
Enterprise teams can now add a Webhook alert channel that POSTs every DNS Spy alert — DNS record changes, domain outages, security check failures, WHOIS updates, phishing look-alike detections — to any HTTPS endpoint as structured JSON. Requests are optionally HMAC-signed, every delivery is logged and retried, and a Send Test button verifies your integration end to end.
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squared up

Power BI vs. SquaredUp: Which is right for IT teams?

Jul 23, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
At first glance, Power BI and SquaredUp both look like dashboarding tools. In practice, they solve different problems. SquaredUp serves engineering teams and IT teams, including SREs, DevOps engineers, engineering managers, and technology leaders. It connects to monitoring, cloud, DevOps, and ITSM platforms. This gives teams a real-time insights into service health, performance, and key metrics in one place. Power BI is Microsoft's business intelligence platform, designed for analysts and business teams.
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selector

The Near-Term Wins in AI for NetOps Rest on the Same Foundation

Jul 23, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Walk into a network operations center this year and the useful AI is not running the place. It is doing three specific jobs, and doing them well: cutting an alert storm down to the one incident that matters, pointing at the likely cause, and deciding what deserves a human’s attention first. That is where AI in NetOps pays for itself right now. The part worth noticing is that all three jobs lean on the same thing.
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sentry

From 57 bugs to 1, thanks to Seer

Jul 23, 2026 By Dan Mindru In Sentry
I was at the dentist the other day, getting ready for my appointment. The waiting room was pompously decorated. Each chair seemed to be from a different, expensive Danish designer. As I realize I’m about to get charged through the nose, I get a notification from my beloved Mail app. ** ding ** Screenshot of GitHub email notification It’s a new Pull Request on GitHub. This one is different though. I have no idea where it came from!
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influxdata

What's New in InfluxDB 3: 5 New Processing Engine Plugins

Jul 23, 2026 By Charles Mahler In InfluxData
Summary The five most recent plugins from the InfluxDB team are live: Sagemaker, value counter, Chronos forecasting, simple data replicator, and a stock portfolio tracker. Table of Contents The InfluxDB team has released five new Processing Engine plugins. They range from making it easy to call a hosted ML model to pulling in stock market data in real-time. Every one of them can be activated with a few terminal commands.
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ScienceLogic

Why Predictability Is the Most Valuable Upgrade Feature

Jul 23, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
When organizations evaluate a software upgrade, the conversation often begins with features, functionality, and innovation. Those considerations are important, but they are rarely the primary concern for the teams responsible for executing the upgrade. Operations leaders are typically focused on a more practical question: can the upgrade be completed successfully, within the planned maintenance window, with clear support paths, and without creating unnecessary disruption for the business?
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grafana

Cost attribution in Grafana Cloud: Manage spend across observability and testing workflows

Jul 22, 2026 By Arun Ulagappan In Grafana
Knowing what you're spending on observability is useful. Knowing which team, service, or project is driving that spend is what actually lets you act on that information. Cost attribution is a core part of how Grafana Cloud approaches cost management and optimization.
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Build a Docker Monitoring Dashboard in Minutes with Claude MCP + Uptrace

Jul 22, 2026 By Uptrace In Uptrace
In this video, we use Claude MCP to create and merge Docker container dashboards in Uptrace — directly from the terminal, no manual clicking required. What you'll see: CPU, memory, network, and disk I/O dashboards created with plain text prompts Two dashboards merged into one unified view Dashboard exported as YAML for version control.
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icinga

Password Policies in Icinga Web

Jul 22, 2026 By Alexander Rieß In Icinga
Icinga Web 2 now ships a PasswordPolicyHook that gives administrators and module developers full control over what constitutes a valid password. Instead of hard-coding a single rule set for every deployment, the hook makes password validation an extension point: any module can register a policy, admins select the active one from the configuration UI, and Icinga Web 2 enforces it everywhere a local password is set or changed.
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honeycomb

Embracing the Code Review Bottleneck

Jul 22, 2026 By Fred Hebert In Honeycomb
Roughly a year ago, I left Honeycomb’s SRE team to join the newly formed Tenant team, which works on our Private Cloud offering. This team held some significant challenges on its roadmap if it wanted to demonstrate that the offering was possible, would be worth the cost, and could be done without representing a heavy tax on the rest of the organization.
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appsignal

Monitoring Your Django App Health on Fly.io

Jul 22, 2026 By Dejan Lukić In AppSignal
Fly.io is a neat choice for deploying Django fast and globally. What it doesn’t really give you out of the box, though, is a deeper picture of an application’s performance. Deployment is only part of the story. No matter which platform you’re using, operating a production application means you need to understand how it behaves. AppSignal helps you fully grasp what happens on the Fly.io server.
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lightrun

Why Internal Agents Must Be Rebuilt with Runtime Context

Jul 22, 2026 By Gidi Freud In Lightrun
As we entered 2026, enterprises raced to build internal AI engineering agents, automating incident response, code review, and support. The investment was real, but 88% of these pilots never reached production, and teams are now in rebuild mode, trying to understand why. Live runtime validation was the key architectural decision skipped in these v1 agents and it’s still missing from many v2 designs. Agents need to verify their reasoning against production before they act.
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motadata

Post-Quantum Cryptography and How to Prepare Your Organization

Jul 22, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Do you actually know where encryption lives inside your infrastructure? Not the vendor's answer. The full map: every TLS handshake, every signed software update, every VPN tunnel, every certificate your systems trust. That map is where post-quantum cryptography starts to matter. The technology has moved from a research topic into a compliance deadline, and the algorithms protecting your data today were built for a world without quantum computers.
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On Release Days We Wear Teal Episode for release 4.19

Jul 22, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
In this episode, Leon explores some of the new features, functions, updates, and improvements in release 4.19, which includes a raft of AI-enabled features including the Cribl Apps, integrated MCP server, and the fact that AI features are now turned on by default. For more information, check out these links.
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Sentry + GitHub Copilot Agents

Jul 22, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry
Seer, Sentry's agent debugger, analyzes your issues and finds the root cause. Now you can pass that analysis directly to a GitHub Copilot agent which picks up the context, generates a fix, and opens a pull request. The agent session and PR both live on GitHub, with a link back in Sentry for easy access. This video walks through how the integration works.
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datadog

From zero to traces: Choosing the right APM instrumentation method for your stack

Jul 22, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Instrumenting a tech stack for distributed tracing is a complicated process that often takes weeks. For large fleets running services written in multiple languages, the timeline could be months. Every service needs a tracing library added, configured, and redeployed, and that work has to fit into each team’s release schedule. Datadog’s Single Step Instrumentation (SSI) cuts the time it takes to instrument your applications to send traces to Datadog APM down to minutes.
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Telemetry Talks ep 6 - Observability unlocked with OpenTelemetry and VictoriaMetrics

Jul 22, 2026 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics
In this episode, we explore how to build a modern Kubernetes observability stack using open-source technologies such as VictoriaMetrics, OpenTelemetry, Grafana. Based on a step by step workshop we gave at Cloud Native Days Romania in May, Jose is walking us through it with practical examples. Playlist Resources for Further Learning.
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Why Regular IT Health Checks Help Prevent Downtime and Improve Business Resilience

Why Regular IT Health Checks Help Prevent Downtime and Improve Business Resilience

Jul 22, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most IT problems do not announce themselves. A backup job quietly fails for three weeks before anyone notices. A firewall rule left open "temporarily" during a project stays open for a year. A former employee's account still has admin rights nobody remembered to remove. None of these cause trouble on the day they happen. They cause trouble later, usually at the worst possible time. This very difference between when these problems start and when they finally become a source of trouble is precisely what a routine IT health check is supposed to bridge.
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manageengine

The case against the internet's most optimistic button

Jul 21, 2026 By Nandana Ann Mathew In ManageEngine
The save for later button has quietly developed a bad reputation. It is associated with every overflowing bookmarks folder, every article we'll "definitely read this weekend", and every YouTube playlist titled Watch Later that's slowly turning into a historical archive. Somehow, the blame always lands on the same little button. It's become the internet's favorite accomplice for procrastination. I'd like to offer a defense.
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last9

Better Together: Last9 + Altinity

Jul 21, 2026 By Last9 In Last9
Last9 and Altinity now run observability entirely in your own cloud, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles on an open-source ClickHouse stack, priced on capacity instead of ingestion, with Altinity operating the database so your team doesn't have to. Last9 is an observability platform built for high-cardinality telemetry. It unifies logs, metrics, and traces with native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support, real-time alerting, and long-term retention.
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meshiq

ActiveMQ Performance Benchmarks: A Complete Methodology Guide

Jul 21, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
Most ActiveMQ performance benchmarks are wrong, not slightly off, but fundamentally invalid for capacity planning. Performance benchmarking done incorrectly is worse than not benchmarking at all. A number that looks like a throughput measurement but was collected without JVM warmup, without latency percentiles, with the load generator co-located on the broker host, and while producer.
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motadata

Security Observability: Pillars, Use Cases, and How It Works

Jul 21, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
When an alert lands, does your team already see the full story, or does the work start with pulling scattered data together from one tool after another? For many organizations it's the second one, where the incident itself takes a backseat while analysts hunt across dashboards. The evidence is right there, scattered across platforms that don't share context. Security observability exists to close that gap.
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hyperping

MCP for SLA Monitoring: Uptime, MTTR & MTTA

Jul 21, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
MCP for SLA monitoring gives an AI agent direct access to measured uptime, mean time to resolve (MTTR), mean time to acknowledge (MTTA), outages, and reliability risks. With Hyperping, you can ask Claude, Cursor, Codex, or another MCP client for an SLA report and get an answer based on your live monitoring data instead of copying numbers between dashboards. The distinction between monitoring data and SLA compliance matters. Hyperping measures availability and incident response.
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hyperping

Catch Next.js Hydration Errors With Playwright Tests

Jul 21, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Playwright can catch Next.js hydration errors by listening for browser console failures and then exercising an interaction that only works after React has attached its event handlers. This detects pages that return 200 OK and display server-rendered content but fail when a customer clicks, types, or navigates. Next.js defines hydration as React attaching event handlers to the server-rendered HTML.
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ScienceLogic

From Visibility to Prediction: How AI-Driven Operations Build Trust at Scale

Jul 21, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Visibility was once the finish line. Centralized monitoring and correlated logs represented meaningful progress. But hybrid cloud environments continued to expand in scale and complexity. Visibility alone no longer guarantees clarity. Across eleven operator interviews, the recurring challenge was not data scarcity. It was interpretation. Telemetry volumes were abundant. Correlation required manual effort. Alert floods introduced friction. Systems were visible, but the path to decisive action was unclear.
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influxdata

Inside LeoLabs: How Radar Engineers Track Over 27,000 Objects in Orbit with InfluxDB

Jul 21, 2026 By Cole Bowden In InfluxData
Summary InfluxDB plays a critical role in LeoLabs’ infrastructure, enabling a lean team to operate with confidence that potential issues will be detected and surfaced in real-time. By offloading the complexity of managing time series data at scale, engineers are free to focus on higher-impact work (such as optimizing their radar network) rather than maintaining and troubleshooting database systems.
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coroot

Let's break autovacuum in Postgres: reproducing failures to make it observable

Jul 21, 2026 By Nikolay Sivko In Coroot
Autovacuum is one of those Postgres background jobs that quietly keeps your database healthy. It cleans up the dead row versions that every UPDATE and DELETE leaves behind, and it keeps the database away from a hard transaction-ID limit that would take it offline. Most of the time you don't think about it, because it just works.
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sentry

How to structure a log

Jul 21, 2026 By Kyle Tryon In Sentry
You’ve decided to step up your logging game and start sending more valuable, structured logs that you can query, aggregate, and use for debugging in production. Go, you! Now, uh, how do you actually write them? We’re not going to spend much time on what you should log. We’ve covered that already, a few times before. What we will be covering is how to actually write those logs, answering questions like: What makes a log structured is not just pairing messages with arbitrary JSON objects.
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hyperping

How to Monitor WooCommerce Checkout With Playwright

Jul 21, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
A WooCommerce checkout monitor should verify that a shopper can open a product, add it to the cart, reach checkout, enter valid details, and see a usable payment option. Playwright is a good fit because these failures often happen after the server has already returned a successful HTTP response. WooCommerce itself uses Playwright for its end-to-end tests. A scheduled production check uses the same browser behavior for a different purpose: finding a broken customer journey between deployments.
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I'll have my AI agent call your AI agent: Battle for your digital hub

Jul 21, 2026 By Sumo Logic, Inc. In Sumo Logic
On this episode of Masters of Data, we unpack what it actually means to expect AI to be the primary interface for everything we do. We dig into the pull toward centralizing work in a single hub like Claude versus staying spread across specialized tools like Slack, Asana and Zoom, and where the line sits between helpful automation and letting an agent speak on your behalf. We also get into the "chief of staff" agent workflow for daily roundups and why specialized, best-of-breed tools aren't going anywhere, even as hubs get smarter.
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VictoriaMetrics

GPU Observability with the OpenLIT Collector and the VictoriaMetrics observability stack

Jul 21, 2026 By Aman Agarwal / Roman Khavronenko In VictoriaMetrics
This post is a joint effort by the OpenLIT and VictoriaMetrics teams. OpenLIT brings the OTel-native GPU collector for NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel hardware, while VictoriaMetrics provides the storage and query layer for the resulting metrics. We wrote it together to show how the two projects fit into a single, self-hosted observability pipeline, and to share the queries and rules that worked well for us along the way.
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Teneo

Preparing for CIP-015: Building Operational Resilience Through Visibility, Detection, and Segmentation

Jul 21, 2026 By Teneo In Teneo
Utility organizations preparing for CIP-015 should think beyond compliance. The organizations that will be best positioned are those investing in comprehensive network visibility, continuous operational intelligence, and segmentation to strengthen cyber resilience and operational continuity. This article explains what CIP-015 means, why it matters, and how Teneo helps utilities build a practical roadmap toward operational resilience.
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hyperping

Monitor Magento Checkout With Playwright: Full Guide

Jul 21, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
A Magento checkout monitor should prove that a customer can select a product, create a cart, reach checkout, enter a shipping address, and load the expected delivery and payment methods. Playwright can test the rendered storefront while also checking the GraphQL or REST requests behind it. Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source provide several testing tools, including a Functional Testing Framework and web API tests.
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lightrun

SDLC Phases and the Reliability Gap AI Can't Close

Jul 21, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
Decisions in each SDLC phase from planning to design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance are made without sight of live production behavior. AI coding agents are widening that visibility gap faster, working faster than human engineers ever could. This piece maps exactly how this gap presents at each phase, and the harm that this brings.
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dns spy

DNS Spy Now Connects to Amazon Route 53. Read-Only, Every Record, Always in Sync.

Jul 21, 2026 By DNS Spy In DNS Spy
When we launched DNS provider sync with six providers, one name came up in nearly every "what about..." email: Amazon Route 53. That makes sense. Route 53 runs DNS for an enormous share of production infrastructure, and it does not support zone transfers — so until now, monitoring a Route 53 zone meant relying on autodiscovery's educated guesses. Today that gap closes.
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How to Minimize Downtime During a Microsoft 365 Migration

How to Minimize Downtime During a Microsoft 365 Migration

Jul 21, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Moving your organization's email, files, collaboration tools, and user accounts to Microsoft 365 is a major step toward a more flexible and secure workplace. Whether you're replacing an older email platform, merging companies, or reorganizing your IT environment, the migration process requires careful planning.
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Why Low-Latency Monitoring Is Mission-Critical for Futures Trading Infrastructure

Why Low-Latency Monitoring Is Mission-Critical for Futures Trading Infrastructure

Jul 21, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Futures trading has always been a game of speed, but over the last decade that game has changed entirely. What used to be measured in seconds is now measured in microseconds. Traders, exchanges, and the technology providers who support them are locked in a constant race to shave off every possible delay between an order being placed and it actually executing. In this environment, low-latency monitoring is not a luxury or a technical afterthought. It is a core part of how trading infrastructure stays reliable, competitive, and safe to operate.
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Have I Been Pwned vs. Coveron vs. Aura - Dark Web Monitoring Services Compared (2026)

Have I Been Pwned vs. Coveron vs. Aura - Dark Web Monitoring Services Compared (2026)

Jul 21, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Have I Been Pwned, Coveron, and Aura solve the same underlying problem in very different ways. Have I Been Pwned answers a one-time question for free, and the two paid services are built for continuous monitoring and recovery of individuals and households. Comparing them head-to-head only makes sense once you separate what a free breach checker does from what a paid identity service is for.
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Stable IPs for DevOps Monitoring: A Guide to Proxy-Cheap Static Residential Proxies

Stable IPs for DevOps Monitoring: A Guide to Proxy-Cheap Static Residential Proxies

Jul 21, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
External monitoring is only useful if you can trust what it tells you. Synthetic checks, uptime probes, and content verifications all run from outside the perimeter, hitting public endpoints the way a real user would. When those checks return clean, honest results, teams catch problems early. When they return noise - false outages, phantom latency, blocked responses - the whole practice degrades into alert fatigue. And a common, under-appreciated source of that noise is the IP address the checks run from.
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manageengine

5 ways agentic AI in ITOps will close the gap between alerts and action

Jul 20, 2026 By Ajay In ManageEngine
Agentic AI in ITOps has emerged as a practical way to go beyond just detecting incidents. Modern IT teams have invested heavily in observability, yet the gap between detecting an issue and resolving it continues to widen. Three major challenges are driving this shift: This is where agentic AI makes a difference.
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How a global telecom provider built a network operational twin and improved root cause analysis

Jul 20, 2026 By Selector In Selector
A leading communications service provider partnered with @selector1327 to create an operational twin of its network, enabling faster root cause analysis and improved operational efficiency across a massive, multi-domain infrastructure.
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datadog

Use OpenTelemetry-native observability with Datadog from ingestion to investigation

Jul 20, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
The recent announcement that OpenTelemetry (OTel) has achieved CNCF graduation further reinforces OTel’s credibility as the industry standard for vendor-neutral telemetry. As organizations increasingly adopt the OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP), the OTel Collector, and OTel SDKs, they need an observability platform that supports OTel-native data without sacrificing flexibility or portability.
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grafana

Beyond performance monitoring: Understand the user experience with Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability

Jul 20, 2026 By Priscilla Lam In Grafana
You've optimized your Largest Contentful Paint. Your Time to First Byte is under 200ms. Your Lighthouse scores are green. And yet, your checkout conversion rate is quietly dropping. A segment of users in Southeast Asia is churning. Your support team is fielding tickets about a form that "just doesn't work" and you have no idea which one. Traditional frontend performance monitoring tells you whether your application is fast. It doesn't tell you whether people are actually succeeding when using it.
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motadata

What Is LLM Observability? A Complete Guide

Jul 20, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
If you run LLM features in production, your most dangerous failures are the ones your monitoring never flags. Your LLM feature passed every test, and the demo went great. Three weeks after launch, a support ticket lands: the chatbot quoted a refund policy that does not exist. The dashboards are all green, and the same prompt answers correctly when you retry it. This is the blind spot LLM observability exists to close. Your existing tools saw the request come back fast with a clean status code.
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appsignal

Why AI-Generated Code Needs Monitoring More Than Handwritten Code

Jul 20, 2026 By Dejan Lukić In AppSignal
Like it or not, vibe coding is here to stay. It’s too easy to just go away. Maybe if the per token cost rises too much at some point that it becomes cheaper to hire a junior… But until then, you’d better get used to it. For now, tools like Cursor, Copilot, and Claude let developers (and plenty of non-devs) ship full-stack apps faster than a junior is able to completely grasp the concept of the app they’re working on. And that’s pretty neat.
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lightrun

Best PR Review Tools for AI-Generated Code (2026)

Jul 20, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
Most PR review tools answer one question: does this code look correct? They scan the diff, flag known patterns, catch security violations, and post inline comments before merge, which is useful, but only half the review. The other half is behavioral: does the code actually behave correctly once it’s running against your live system?
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sentry

MongoDB Query Tracing in .NET with Sentry + OTLP

Jul 20, 2026 By James Crosswell In Sentry
If your.NET app talks to MongoDB, you almost certainly want to be able to measure DB performance so that you can effectively debug any performance issues you might run into. For that, you need to know which database command was running, how long it took, and whether this was a one-off blip or part of a broader pattern. Ideally, you also want to pivot from that trace to related errors and replays without stitching the story together by hand.
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incidenthub

H1 2026 Cloud and SaaS Reliability Report

Jul 20, 2026 By Hrishikesh Barua In IncidentHub
The first half of 2026 reinforced a key idea about Cloud and SaaS reliability - dependency risk. IncidentHub tracked 30,246 outages across 1,082 providers between January and June 2026. May was the busiest month, with 6,070 incidents. Cloud providers led in the total number of outages (4,723), followed closely by developer tools (4,589).
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Why partners love working with Cribl

Jul 20, 2026 By Cribl In Cribl
Hear directly from Cribl partners—including AWS—about what it’s really like to work together. This short is for technology and cloud partners, consulting firms, and customers who want a quick, human view of Cribl’s partner ecosystem and the value it delivers. In under two minutes, partners highlight Cribl’s partner program, the people they work with, and the outcomes they’re delivering for joint customers. You’ll hear about the FedRAMP opportunity, why “it’s all about the data” for AWS, and how Cribl helps get data where it needs to be for shared customers.
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nexthink

Enterprise AI Governance Made Simple with Nexthink's AI Activation Hub

Jul 20, 2026 By Shawn Lazarus In Nexthink
Over the past year, organizations have embraced AI at an extraordinary pace, and Nexthink AI Activation Hub powered by AI Drive has helped customers make sense of that transformation by helping organizations discover the growing wave of AI tools entering the workplace, rapidly triage and govern them, accelerate adoption of approved AI solutions, and measure the impact of AI across the enterprise.
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manageengine

Five worthy reads: Brains or bots-are we forgetting how to think?

Jul 17, 2026 By Dharani Senthilkumar In ManageEngine
Five worthy reads is a regular column on five noteworthy items we’ve discovered while researching trending and timeless topics. This week, we are exploring how prolonged dependence on AI could influence human beings' neural pathways, cognitive habits, and the behavioral changes that follows. As children, many of us would have watched the juggler at a circus in amazement. One ball became two, then three, and several more since it was a cumulative act.
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hyperping

5 Key Differences Between Playwright and Puppeteer

Jul 17, 2026 By Leo Baecker In Hyperping
Hyperping· Uptime monitoring Know before your customers do. Monitor from 18 regions and route alerts by phone, SMS, Slack or email. Start free Playwright and Puppeteer solve the same problem, driving a real browser from Node.js, and Playwright was started by engineers who previously built Puppeteer. That shared ancestry makes the two APIs look similar at first glance, which is exactly why the differences below catch people off guard.
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How to use Grafana Assistant with the AWS CloudWatch data source

Jul 17, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana Assistant meets AWS CloudWatch! In this video, Staff Software Engineer Ivana Huckova shows how to use Grafana Assistant, the AI agent built into Grafana Cloud, with the Amazon CloudWatch data source. Watch her query CloudWatch metrics and logs in plain language, build dashboards in seconds, and troubleshoot AWS resources — no query syntax required.
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datadog

Answer any cost question faster with the Cloud Cost skill in Bits Chat

Jul 17, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Managing cloud, AI, and SaaS costs means answering a steady stream of questions from finance, leadership, and engineering teams. What changed? Which team owns the spend? Was an increase expected? Are we still on track against the budget? When each answer requires moving between dashboards, filtering cost data by team or service, or manually correlating billing data with observability data, it can slow down investigations while costs continue to rise.
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Langflow Observability with OpenTelemetry and SigNoz

Jul 17, 2026 By SigNoz - Open Source Observability Platform In SigNoz
Learn how to implement end to end monitoring and observability for Langflow using OpenTelemetry and SigNoz. In this video, we walk through instrumenting Langflow workflows, collecting traces, metrics, and logs, and visualizing everything in SigNoz to gain real time visibility into flow execution, LLM requests, tool calls, token usage, latency, failures, and performance bottlenecks. Langflow ships with built in OpenTelemetry support, making it easy to export telemetry to SigNoz with minimal configuration.
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motadata

What Is CIS Compliance? A Complete Guide

Jul 17, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Most security breaches begin with something small and avoidable. Think of a password still set to its default, a server port left open to the internet, or configuration drift that slowly undoes last year's careful setup. Gaps like these go unnoticed because nobody is assigned to look for them, and they can be very costly. According to IBM's 2025 Cost of a Data Breach report, the average data breach incident costs companies 4.44 million dollars.
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What Is Alert Fatigue, and Why Do IT Teams Miss Critical Alerts?

Jul 17, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
Alert fatigue is one of the biggest reasons critical incidents get missed. In this video, learn what alert fatigue is, why it happens, and how reducing noisy, repetitive notifications helps IT teams respond faster to the alerts that actually matter. Whether you're an IT operations professional, SRE, DevOps engineer, NOC analyst, or IT manager, this video explains alert fatigue in simple terms and shares practical ways to reduce alert noise, prioritize critical issues, and improve incident response.
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New AI Features in Playwright (Live-Webinar)

Jul 17, 2026 By Checkly In Checkly
An AI agent that can't open a browser is just guessing. Stefan from Checkly shows how giving AI coding agents a real browser via Playwright enables reliable end-to-end test generation and debugging, closing the quality gap created by faster, AI-driven shipping. The session compares Playwright MCP vs the Playwright CLI for agent workflows, showing that thanks to MCP spec changes, lazy tool loading, and skills, the two are now effectively just different interfaces to the same tool, with no real token advantage either way.
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incidenthub

The July 2026 AWS CloudFront Outage: VPC Origins, Cascade Impact, and What Broke

Jul 17, 2026 By Hrishikesh Barua In IncidentHub
On July 16, 2026, AWS experienced a disruption in its CloudFront service, which affected a large number of websites and applications. The outage was caused by a configuration loading failure in CloudFront's VPC Origins feature. This was AWS's most widely-felt outage after last year's outage on October 20th, which caused widespread damage.
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motadata

SBOM vs CBOM: Software and Cryptographic Bills of Materials Explained

Jul 17, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How confident are you that you know every component inside your software, and every algorithm guarding it? In practice, the answer is usually scattered across build tools, ticketing systems, and spreadsheets that stopped being accurate months ago. A modern application draws on hundreds of open-source parts, and the encryption underneath them is harder still to trace. That visibility gap is what keeps the "SBOM vs CBOM" question alive in security and compliance reviews.
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eg innovations

Choosing the Right Application Performance Monitoring Tool for Modern IT

Jul 17, 2026 By Venkat Narayanan In eG Innovations
It is 2 a.m. The pager goes off. Checkout is down, customers are dropping, and you have five dashboards open across four tools that do not agree. One says the application is fine. Another says latency is climbing. None tells you why. This is the moment that decides whether you have the right application performance monitoring tool. Modern applications run across containers, cloud services, APIs, and infrastructure spanning on-premises and multiple clouds.
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eg innovations

Best Citrix Monitoring Tools for End-to-End Performance and User Experience

Jul 17, 2026 By Rachel Berry In eG Innovations
It is 9:02 on Monday morning. Within minutes, hundreds of employees hit the logon button at once, and the helpdesk queue fills with the same three words: Citrix is slow. The team scrambles. Is it the Delivery Controller? Active Directory? The profile server? Storage? Without the right Citrix monitoring tools, that question can take hours to answer, and every minute is a roomful of people who cannot work.
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Avantra

SAP Cloud ERP in 2026: What's Included, What Isn't, and What It Means for Your Migration

Jul 16, 2026 By Avantra Team In Avantra
Since our firm first published the Cloud ERP (then it was “RISE”) F.A.Q., a lot has changed with SAP, the market, and adoption trends. It’s worth a revisit: how Cloud ERP is packaged and sold by SAP has changed significantly, as has our guidance for customers adopting the solution. Perhaps the most notable change is the maturity of the Cloud ERP Private and Public solutions.
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manageengine

Top Tips: Stay creative in the age of AI

Jul 16, 2026 By Priyanka Gs In ManageEngine
Top Tips is a weekly column where we examine the trends transforming the workplace. This week, we're exploring the relationship between AI and creativity, why convenience shouldn't come at the cost of original thinking, and practical ways to keep your creative edge sharp. Have you ever heard of the prefrontal cortex? It's one of the most fascinating parts of the human brain.
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VictoriaMetrics Virtual Meet Up - July 2026

Jul 16, 2026 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics
Warm up Community News VictoriaTraces roadmap Update VictoriaMetrics roadmap updates Community Story by Kirill Kobylianskii from Trade Republic:"Running VictoriaMetrics and Mimir Side by Side at ~100M active series" Anomaly Detection Updates VictoriaMetrics Cloud Updates VictoriaLogs roadmap Update AMA session.
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squared up

Getting started with Huntress dashboards

Jul 16, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
If you run Huntress across a fleet of client environments, you already know the console gives you a solid view of agent health, threat detections and incident reports. What it doesn't give you is a way to put that data next to everything else you're tracking, your PSA tickets, your other security tools, the rest of your stack, so you can see the whole client picture in one place.
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sematext

Top 12 Network Monitoring Tools in 2026: Complete Comparison & Reviews

Jul 16, 2026 By Sematext In Sematext
Modern infrastructure is no longer a stack of routers, switches, and racks sitting in a single data center. Most teams now run a mix of Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, managed cloud services, and SaaS dependencies spread across regions and providers. Knowing which device is up is not the same as knowing whether your application is healthy.
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coralogix

Coralogix | Magic Quadrant 2026

Jul 16, 2026 By Andre Scott In Coralogix
We are absolutely thrilled to share with you all that Coralogix has been recognized as a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. When we architected Coralogix around in-stream processing, open-format storage, and index-free query, we weren’t optimizing for where observability stood at the time. We were building for the world it was heading toward.
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Sentry + GitHub Copilot: Let Agents Find and Fix Your Errors

Jul 16, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry
Andrea Griffiths is a Senior Developer Advocate at GitHub. She uses Sentry to monitor the Python scripts behind GitHub’s community streams, because when those pipelines fail, nobody knows until users start complaining. GitHub and Sentry built a loop that fixes that. Sentry catches the error, Seer diagnoses it, and Copilot drafts the fix. No one has to be in the middle of it. In this session, Paul Jaffre (Developer Experience at Sentry) breaks down what Seer is, then he and Andrea break a real script live and watch the loop catch it, diagnose it, and open the fix as a pull request.
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selector

The NetOps Dashboard Era Is Closing: Our Take on Gartner's 'The Future of NetOps Is Agentic'

Jul 16, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
For roughly fifteen years, operating a network has meant living inside a vendor dashboard. An engineer’s skill was, in large part, the ability to read those panels quickly and act on what they showed. Gartner’s read in “The Future of NetOps Is Agentic” is that this arrangement is closing, and sooner than most teams have staffed for.
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honeycomb

30 to 70 PRs a Day: How We Managed to Not Wreck Our Systems

Jul 16, 2026 By Liz Fong-Jones In Honeycomb
In this two-part blog series, I give a detailed report-out on how our Honeycomb engineering team 2.5x-ed our throughput using AI without breaking everything or lowering our standards for quality. Part 1 explains how we did it and shows data about how that ramp-up happened. Part 2 shares what we learned.
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honeycomb

AI Amplifies Your Existing Practices: Lessons from Our Shift to an AI-First Strategy

Jul 16, 2026 By Liz Fong-Jones In Honeycomb
In this two-part blog series, I give a detailed report-out on how our Honeycomb engineering team 2.5x-ed our throughput using AI without breaking everything or lowering our standards for quality. Part 1 explains how we did it and shows data about how that ramp-up happened. In this blog, I share what we learned. The “platform engineering” frame and the “autonomy, ownership, feedback loops” frame are the same frame, spoken in two different vocabularies.
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Session Replay: Reproducible User Sessions

Jul 16, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry
See what your users see. Don't try and guess what happened, watch it. Session Replay is a feature for Mobile and Web apps on Sentry to record user sessions as reproducible sessions. These are not videos. On web, a session replay contains the entire DOM reconstruction and DevTools. It's exactly like inspecting in Chrome DevTools locally on your machine, but in a real production session.
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How to install Kubernetes using OpenShift's CLI | Site24x7

Jul 15, 2026 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Running Kubernetes on Red Hat OpenShift adds powerful enterprise capabilities—but also introduces operator-driven workloads, stricter RBAC and SCC policies, and platform-specific complexity. In this video, learn how Site24x7 enables platform-aware monitoring for OpenShift environments, helping DevOps and platform teams gain complete visibility without blind spots.
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mezmo

5 Things to Know About Context Engineering

Jul 15, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Software systems are getting better at understanding themselves. The mix of richer telemetry, smarter pipelines, and agentic AI is shifting observability from a passive record of events into something more active and useful. That shift is what we mean by context engineering. We recently partnered with O’Reilly on a report by David Beale that introduces the discipline. Before you read it, here are five things worth knowing.
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netdata

Native macOS Monitoring: Logs, Sensors, GPU & Hardware Health

Jul 15, 2026 By Vasileios Kalintiris In netdata
We’ve overhauled macOS monitoring in the latest Netdata release. Netdata already collects system metrics on Macs at per-second resolution; this release completes the picture with logs and hardware telemetry, areas that previously required users to run CLI tools like log show and powermetrics. The new collectors read this data through Apple’s own frameworks, allowing users to trace application and OS errors and catch hardware issues early.
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observiq

July 2026 at Bindplane: A new pipeline editor, friendlier pricing, and a Blueprints library

Jul 15, 2026 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
The new Advanced Pipeline Editor went live for all paid plans, we launched a public Blueprints library of ready-made pipeline patterns, we reworked plan pricing and raised the Free tier to 100 GB/day, and the source and processor catalog grew with an AWS Neuron source, an AWS CloudWatch metrics source, and a full set of XML processors. None of these are flashy on their own.
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motadata

9 Best Log Aggregation Tools for 2026

Jul 15, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Every on-call engineer has lost an evening to some version of this. Something breaks; the fix is usually somewhere in the logs, and the logs are scattered everywhere: a dozen servers, a few containers, a couple of cloud services, none of them in one place. So, you SSH into one box, grep, get nothing, move to the next, and an hour later there are fifteen terminal tabs open and still no clear sequence of events. Log aggregation tools kill that scramble.
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grafana

Grafana Labs named a Leader again in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

Jul 15, 2026 By Robin Gustafsson In Grafana
We’re delighted to share that Grafana Labs has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms for the third consecutive year. Notably, we’re also positioned furthest in “Completeness of Vision” for the second year in a row.
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obkio

How to Troubleshoot Intermittent Network Connectivity Issues

Jul 15, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
A full outage is the easy version of this job. Something goes down, someone notices immediately, you fix it, and you move on. Everyone understands that problem, including the users complaining about it. Intermittent network connectivity issues are a different animal. Your network connection works, then it doesn't, then it does again, all on its own, usually before you've had a chance to open a single tool. By the time you sit down to look, the network is behaving perfectly.
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icinga

Building a Shared Icon and Font Library for Icinga Web

Jul 15, 2026 By Johannes Meyer In Icinga
If you’ve copied the same icon font or the same LESS helper into two or three Icinga Web modules, you’ve hit the problem libraries exist to solve. This guide builds one from scratch: a small, self-contained icon and font pack that any number of modules can share, with no copy-pasting and no per-module registration step.
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honeybadger

How a status page can show a site at its best (and 10 examples)

Jul 15, 2026 By James Konik In Honeybadger
Your status page is a bridge to your customers. It’s where you show what you can do and prove that your product is more than just sales talk. Though easy to overlook, it provides an opportunity to showcase all that’s best about your services. The trick is how to do it well. Fortunately, there are many outstanding status pages that you can draw inspiration from. Once your ideas take shape, you're ready to present your vision to customers.
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datadog

Datadog named Leader in 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

Jul 15, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
We are thrilled to announce that Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms, for the sixth consecutive year. We believe this recognition reflects our continued focus on helping customers observe, secure, and act on everything that matters across their technology stack. Datadog was positioned highest in Ability to Execute in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms.
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Getting Started with Telegraf Controller

Jul 15, 2026 By InfluxData In InfluxData
Telegraf Controller is a centralized application designed for managing Telegraf deployments at scale by defining configurations in one location and consistently applying them across a fleet of agents. In this video, Product Manager Scott Anderson walks you through the steps of setting up and managing agents using the controller, covering.
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nexthink

The AI Factor You're Ignoring: Employee Behavior

Jul 15, 2026 By Shawn Lazarus In Nexthink
One of the most important realizations emerging across enterprise AI governance discussions is that most risky AI behavior is not malicious. Employees are typically trying to work faster. They are trying to summarize documents, accelerate research, draft communications, analyze spreadsheets, or automate repetitive tasks. In many cases, employees may not fully understand how AI providers handle uploaded information, what data policies apply, or where organizational compliance boundaries actually exist.
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dns spy

Connect Your DNS Provider. Import Every Record. Stay in Sync.

Jul 15, 2026 By DNS Spy In DNS Spy
When you add a domain to a DNS monitor, the first question is simple: which records should it watch? Until now there were two answers, and both had a catch. Autodiscovery probes hundreds of common names — www, mail, _dmarc, the usual suspects — and it catches most of what real zones contain. But if you named a record something unusual, no wordlist in the world is going to guess it.
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observiq

The Advanced Pipeline Editor Is Here: One View, Every Pipeline

Jul 14, 2026 By Ryan Goins In ObservIQ
The Advanced Pipeline Editor is now live for all paid Bindplane plans. It's a rebuilt configuration editing experience that puts your whole config in a single interactive graph: every source, processor, router, and destination, across logs, metrics, and traces, in one view you can search, pan, zoom, and edit directly. If you've ever bounced between pipeline tabs trying to figure out where a processor sits in a config with a dozen sources and three destinations, this release is for you.
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grafana

Stop switching tools to find answers: Grafana Assistant now works across 30+ data sources

Jul 14, 2026 By Karina Munoz Villanueva In Grafana
When you're the on-call engineer and something breaks, you can quickly find yourself deep in a series of tools you don't regularly use—switching tabs, copying query results, and manually stitching together a picture of what's happening and why. People are increasingly turning to AI to get around this, but the results can be a mixed bag.
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atatus

How to Diagnose Abnormal Kubernetes Workload Behavior (Step-by-Step)

Jul 14, 2026 By Mohana Ayeswariya J In Atatus
It's 2:14 AM. CPU usage is normal. Memory looks stable. No pods are in CrashLoopBackOff. Every dashboard is green. And yet API latency has doubled, checkout requests are timing out, and your on-call phone won't stop buzzing. This is the defining trait of abnormal Kubernetes workload behavior: it rarely announces itself through the metrics you already watch. Kubernetes is exceptionally good at reporting whether a pod is running. It is far less good at telling you whether a pod is doing its job correctly.
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broadcom

Controlling Flow Telemetry Overhead in Distributed Environments

Jul 14, 2026 By Helen Burke In Broadcom
You rely on NetFlow to give you the visibility needed to trace bandwidth consumption, identify suspicious traffic patterns, and plan for future capacity requirements. However, monitoring flow data has grown increasingly complex over the past few years. As enterprise environments expand into hybrid architectures and user traffic volumes multiply, capturing and processing this data creates operational challenges.
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motadata

Why does Asset Management Software Matter for Business?

Jul 14, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
If an audit happened tomorrow, could you account for every IT asset your organization owns? For many IT teams, that question gets harder every quarter. Assets are scattered across offices, remote devices, spreadsheets, and cloud subscriptions, making them difficult to track. By the time an audit or renewal arrives, the gaps have already become costly.
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ScienceLogic

Automation That Protects, Not Replaces: The Human Side of AI-Driven Operations

Jul 14, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Automation has a branding problem. For years, it has been associated with cost reduction and workforce replacement. But operators tell a different story. Across eleven interviews, the consistent theme was relief. Relief from manual ticket creation. Relief from repetitive triage. Relief from workflows that once required three days and now take five minutes. These are not stories about eliminating people. They are stories about protecting them. Operators spoke with clear ownership over their environments.
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meshiq

ActiveMQ Log Analysis & Diagnostics: The Expert Guide

Jul 14, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
Senior engineers who are fast at diagnosing ActiveMQ incidents share one trait: they know exactly what they are looking for in the broker log before they open it. They know the PFC signature, the OOM warning pattern, the journal recovery sequence, and the connection drop format. For them, the log is not text to search through, it is a structured operational record that maps each entry to a specific broker state.
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meshiq

ActiveMQ Capacity Planning: The Complete Framework

Jul 14, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
Most ActiveMQ deployments are sized in one of two ways: either under-provisioned from underestimating growth ("we'll upgrade when we need to") or over-provisioned from anxiety ("better give it 32GB just in case"). Both approaches are avoidable with a structured capacity planning framework that translates your messaging workload characteristics into specific hardware and configuration requirements.
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honeycomb

Shipping Is Your Company's Heartbeat: A Letter from a CTO

Jul 14, 2026 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb
The world is especially hard right now. The future of the software engineering profession looks more uncertain than ever. Execs are under heavy pressure to turn AI into magic results, and teams are fighting product competition and AI-induced burnout on one side, melting mental models and hellish oncall on the other side. Observability was supposed to be a solved problem by now.
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mezmo

An SRE agent for production

Jul 14, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
AI has changed how software gets built. It hasn't changed how software gets run. Most of the AI money in software has gone into the IDE: code generation, copilots, developer assistants, faster pull requests. That work matters. But writing software is one slice of the lifecycle. The harder problem, and the more expensive one, is running that software in production. Production is where systems fail in ways nobody predicted. Incidents don't stay inside one service.
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mezmo

We built an SRE bot on AURA. Here's what we learned.

Jul 14, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
PagerDuty fires. You open the incident. Title, timestamp, nothing else. Whatever context exists is in someone's head, in a Slack thread from two weeks ago, or in a runbook nobody has touched since the last reorg. We got tired of that. So we put an AURA agent behind a Slack bot and pointed it at our own production environment.
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How Does a Configuration Item Fit Into Your CMDB?

Jul 14, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this video, you'll learn what a Configuration Item (CI) is, how it forms the foundation of a CMDB, and why connecting CIs helps IT teams understand dependencies, improve visibility, and resolve incidents faster. Discover how CIs transform scattered asset data into a complete, connected view of your IT environment. Whether you're an IT Manager, IT Administrator, Service Desk Analyst, ITSM Professional, Infrastructure Engineer, or IT Operations Leader, this video explains why Configuration Items are essential for effective IT Service Management.
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nexthink

What's New in Nexthink: Helping IT Drive Better Business Outcomes

Jul 14, 2026 By Shawn Lazarus In Nexthink
New Nexthink Infinity innovations empower IT to govern AI, automate remediation, and troubleshoot digital workplace issues faster, enabling faster action, smoother experiences, and stronger business outcomes. The future of IT requires more than actioning tickets. Modern IT teams are expected to safely enable AI, modernize infrastructure, improve employee productivity, and drive business outcomes in increasingly complex environments.
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nexthink

Accelerating MTTR with New VDI Experience Enhancements

Jul 14, 2026 By Dennis Damen In Nexthink
For IT teams supporting VDI environments, the hardest part of a support ticket is rarely the fix itself – it's figuring out where the problem actually lives. And in most cases, first-level support engineers don’t have access to both the present and historic VDI-specific insights needed to triage the problem, so these VDI tickets are quickly escalated to the VDI team.
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mezmo

Life after SaaS: Enabling the System of Context

Jul 14, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
By: Tucker Callaway, CEO at Mezmo The market keeps saying “SaaS is dead.” That’s probably true, but it’s also incomplete. What’s actually dying is the idea that value lives inside a vendor-controlled black box. The next era is about utilities: unlimited coding capacity and unlimited analytical capability. And if those two utilities are real, then the vendor model has to change.
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Cribl

A new way to SIEM

Jul 14, 2026 By Clint Sharp In Cribl
For years, security teams have been sold the same bargain: send in more data, buy more tools, tune more rules, and you'll be better protected. In practice, a lot of teams have ended up with the opposite. They're carrying more cost and more complexity, and they still don't have much confidence that their detections are actually working the way they should. That's the backdrop for why Cribl is acquiring CardinalOps.
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logicmonitor

Unlock AIOps with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform and LogicMonitor Edwin AI

Jul 14, 2026 By Margo Poda In LogicMonitor
Edwin AI and Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform help ITOps teams move from correlated alerts and root cause analysis to governed, auditable remediation. When an outage starts, the first alert is only the first artifact. The harder work follows: grouping related signals, separating symptoms from cause, identifying the affected service, and deciding whether the next action is safe to run.
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Create uptime monitors by asking Claude Code (MCP demo)

Jul 14, 2026 By Monitive In Monitive
Create and manage uptime monitors without leaving your editor. In this demo I connect Claude Code to UptimeMonitoring's MCP server with one command, then just ask it to monitor six sites. It creates all six, runs the first check, and reports back, then shows the live monitors in the dashboard. What UptimeMonitoring is: MCP is a thin layer over a normal REST API; if you'd rather curl + cron, that path is first-class.
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VictoriaMetrics

Announcing vmestimator: Real-time Cardinality Estimations for VictoriaMetrics and Prometheus

Jul 14, 2026 By Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
Cardinality problems usually begin with a small change that looks harmless: you add a label, and suddenly one metric turns into thousands of unique series. Cardinality explosions are often caught only after performance degrades. And at that point, your observability stack may be degraded and painful to troubleshoot. vmestimator is a new project specifically designed to follow cardinality trends in real time and send you alerts before they turn into a real problem.
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What Is Synthetic Monitoring and Why Does It Matter?

Jul 13, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
A website can look healthy on your dashboard and still fail when customers try to use it. So how do you catch problems before anyone notices them? In this video, you'll learn what synthetic monitoring is, how it works, and why IT teams use it to detect website and application issues before they impact real users. Discover how automated user journeys help you monitor availability, performance, and critical business transactions 24/7.
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motadata

10 Best Network Performance Monitoring Software for 2026

Jul 13, 2026 By Jagdish Sajnani In Motadata
Almost every network monitoring tool on the market promises the same few things, which is full visibility, faster root cause, and fewer pointless alerts. Spend enough time looking into them and the websites all start to sound the same, and most of them read better on the page than they hold up on the day the network actually slows down.
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logz.io

Part II: Inside Alert AI Analysis: From a Single-Agent Prompt to an Agent Harness

Jul 13, 2026 By Kevin Klein In logz.io
TL;DR: This is the engineering companion to our announcement post, Upgraded Alert AI Analysis: Automated Incident Investigation, read that one for what the new generation does for your team; read on for how it works under the hood. Interested in hearing more? Book a demo to see the Alert AI Analysis Agent live. Root cause analysis is one of the harshest tests you can give an AI.
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motadata

Best IT Ticketing Systems for 2026

Jul 13, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
An IT ticket rarely arrives as a ticket. Instead, it arrives as a Teams DM to whichever technician replied fastest last time, and the request dies with that person's inbox. When a 200-plus-comment r/sysadmin thread on favorite ticketing tools outranks almost every vendor page on Google, that tells you how many teams are still hunting for a system their users will actually use. We compared the 9 best IT ticketing systems for 2026, aimed at IT teams handling internal tickets, not customer support desks.
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motadata

How to Choose the Right ITSM Solution for Your Business

Jul 13, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How do you tell which ITSM solution will actually fit your team when every vendor promises the same faster resolutions and lower costs? The tools look alike in a demo. The differences surface later, once your team has spent a few weeks actually using the tool. So much of it comes down to fit. A tool that suits your team's size, works the way you already do, and stays within budget will serve you far longer than a flashier one that doesn't.
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honeycomb

Lattice Watch: Smarter Guardrails for Design System Observability

Jul 13, 2026 By Juliana Gomez In Honeycomb
One of the hardest challenges facing platform teams is wrangling the rising volume of PRs looking to add drift to the systems we've invested in. It's impossible to catch them all, so it's more important than ever to invest in building stronger guardrails so our product teams can keep building quickly and catch issues before they merge to main. Linters are a great tool to reach for first.
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atatus

Introducing AI-Powered Incident Correlation & Root Cause Detection

Jul 13, 2026 By Mohana Ayeswariya J In Atatus
An API latency spike hits your checkout service, and within ninety seconds your on-call phone won't stop buzzing. A CPU threshold breaches. A database connection pool exhausts. A pod restarts. An error rate crosses 5% on a downstream service. Six engineers get paged inside four minutes. Forty alerts. Seven services. One incident. Every monitoring tool in the stack is doing exactly what it was configured to do, telling you that something is wrong.
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grafana

Building an end-to-end reliability testing strategy with Grafana Cloud

Jul 13, 2026 By Bukola Ayodele In Grafana
Modern applications can fail in many different ways, from performance regressions and frontend errors to systems that break under heavy load. Because no single testing or monitoring approach can catch every type of failure, effective reliability testing requires multiple layers that validate your application before, during, and after their release.
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eg innovations

Real User Monitoring: Introducing Session Replay for eG Enterprise

Jul 13, 2026 By Junyan Ang In eG Innovations
In the hospitality industry, every second counts—especially when it comes to online bookings. Recently, I’ve been working with a hospitality customer who relies on eG Innovations SaaS to monitor the performance of their booking website. Like many modern sites, theirs is powered by numerous plugins and external third‑party services, each playing a crucial role in delivering a smooth booking experience while also introducing potential points of delay.
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Sentry Seer, MCP, & Warp Agents: Fixing Sentry Issues Outside of Sentry

Jul 13, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry
This video walks through connecting Sentry's MCP server to a Warp Agent, so instead of an agent starting from a raw error, it starts from Seer's actual root cause diagnosis: the error, the surrounding code, and recent commits. From there, the Warp Agent takes that diagnosis, implements the fix directly in the codebase, and opens a PR, all without leaving Warp.
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logz.io

Upgraded Alert AI Analysis: Automated Incident Investigation

Jul 13, 2026 By David Lotan Bolotnikoff In logz.io
TL;DR: OrionIQ has launched the next generation of its Alert AI Analysis agent within the Open 360 AI platform, designed to automate and accelerate incident investigation. Key features of this evolution include: Agent-Based Investigation: Instead of relying on a single prompt, the system coordinates specialized AI agents to correlate data across diverse sources like logs, metrics, deployments, and tickets.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaMetrics 2026 Mid Year Roundup

Jul 13, 2026 By Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
In the first half of 2026, we shipped a wide range of improvements across metrics, logs, traces, cloud, and the Kubernetes operator. Our main focus across open-source components and enterprise solutions was on performance, stability, and making observability easier to adopt and operate day‑to‑day. This roundup brings together the most important changes to date, including a quick look back at key anomaly detection improvements from 2025 that are now paying off today.
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Why Network Visibility Starts at the Switch Layer

Why Network Visibility Starts at the Switch Layer

Jul 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Every IT team strives to improve visibility dashboards, alerts, and efficient root cause analysis. Of course, we tend to believe that all this is achievable via software, install some monitoring platform and immediately see all processes happening inside the network. But it's not always the case. The software monitoring solution can only show what the network itself allows you to see and such visibility starts at the switch layer.
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Where Status Pages Fit in a Modern Incident-Response Workflow

Where Status Pages Fit in a Modern Incident-Response Workflow

Jul 12, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
An incident-response process has two audiences from the moment a service begins to fail. Engineers need evidence detailed enough to isolate the fault. Customers need a clear account of what is affected, what still works, and when they should expect another update. Trying to serve both groups from the same dashboard usually leaves each with the wrong information.
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scout

Your AI Coding Agent Is Flying Blind in Production

Jul 11, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Your AI coding agent can refactor a module, write tests, and open a PR. It can read your codebase, understand your patterns, and suggest changes that follow your conventions. What it cannot do, unless you set it up, is see what is actually happening in production. That is a problem. The agent that writes the code should have access to the errors, traces, and performance data that code generates once it ships. Without production context, your agent is writing fixes based on the code alone.
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scout

Monitoring AI Applications in 2026: What You Actually Need

Jul 11, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Last updated: July 2026. Your AI feature works in development. It demos well. Then it hits production and you discover three problems your test suite did not catch: the LLM hallucinates product names that do not exist, the RAG retrieval step adds 4 seconds to every request, and your OpenAI bill is 3x what you budgeted because one prompt template is burning tokens on context that does not help the output. Traditional APM would have caught the latency.
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atatus

Observability: The Complete Guide (2026)

Jul 11, 2026 By Sayid Zafirah In Atatus
When something breaks in a distributed system, "is it down?" is the easy question. "Why is it down, and where exactly?" is the one that actually costs engineering teams time. Observability is the practice and the tooling built to answer that second question, and it's become one of the most important disciplines in modern software operations.
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scout

Node.js Performance Monitoring: What to Track and How to Fix It

Jul 10, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Your Node.js app is slow and you are not sure where. The response time dashboard shows spikes but not causes. The logs say nothing useful. CPU looks fine. Memory looks fine. Users are complaining anyway. This is the standard Node.js performance debugging experience. The single-threaded event loop, async-everything execution model, and connection pool sharing across all requests make Node.js performance problems different from what you see in Ruby or Python.
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scout

Best Monitoring Tools in 2026: 10 Tools Compared by Use Case and Pricing

Jul 10, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Last updated: July 2026. Pricing verified against public vendor pricing pages on July 9, 2026. The monitoring tool market in 2026 is split. On one side, enterprise platforms keep adding features: security scanning, network monitoring, CI/CD integration, cost management. On the other, developer-focused tools are going deeper on what matters during a production incident: how fast you get from alert to the line of code that caused the problem.
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motadata

Smart City Monitoring: How Network Visibility Keeps Cities Online

Jul 10, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
What happens when a city's traffic signals freeze at rush hour and nobody in the operations center knows why? For the teams running a connected city, that gap between a failure and its first clue is the worst place to be. Smart city monitoring closes that gap. It gives operators a live view of every network, device, and service the city runs. A fault gets caught and traced before citizens ever feel it. Without that visibility, small problems stay hidden until they spread.
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motadata

What Is Observability 2.0? Meaning, Key Features, and How to Adopt It

Jul 10, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
How many tools does your team need to answer one question about production? For most enterprise IT teams the honest count is four: a metrics dashboard, a log analyzer, a tracing tool, and the spreadsheet where someone stitches the other three together during an incident. Each of those tools stores its own copy of the truth and sends its own bill.
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datadog

Making agentic token costs visible in production

Jul 10, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
In some organizations, high token counts have become a proxy for productivity. Some engineering teams are being pushed to max out context windows and wire in sprawling tool sets. More tokens can mean better agent reasoning and richer context during development, but token costs compound in production. Tokens accumulate across sessions, users, and tool calls in ways that are easy to overlook. Datadog’s 2026 State of AI Engineering report quantifies the scale of this problem.
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The AI Software Engineering Revolution, feat. Anthropic | Big Tent S3E9

Jul 10, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
In this episode of Grafana's Big Tent, hosts Mat Ryer (Senior Director of AI, Grafana Labs) and Tom Wilkie (CTO, Grafana Labs) sit down with Eric Burns, Field Executive Architect at Anthropic, to talk about building trust between tech and business execs, why Anthropic bet early on running across every major cloud, and what it was like watching large language models go from "interesting" to "obviously the future" in real time.
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checkly

How Upstash Monitors Every Redis Replica with Checkly

Jul 10, 2026 By Ilter Kavlak In Checkly
There's a support ticket every SRE dreads: "is something wrong with my database?" The outage is bad enough. Worse is the possibility that the customer knew first. At Upstash, we treat that scenario as two failures rather than one: the incident itself, and the uptime monitoring gap that let a customer beat us to it. We write a postmortem for the gap, too.
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honeycomb

15 Best AI Observability Tools for Production Teams in 2026

Jul 10, 2026 By Shabih Syed In Honeycomb
AI applications generate far more than model outputs. Every request includes prompts, retrieval, tool calls, agent steps, latency, token usage, and evaluation signals that all contribute to the final response. When something goes wrong, engineering teams need to understand what happened, why it happened, what it cost, and whether the outcome met quality expectations.
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ManageEngine CloudSpend tutorial: Cost allocation report for AWS, Azure, and GCP

Jul 10, 2026 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Learn how to use the Cost Allocation report in ManageEngine CloudSpend to accurately split, track, and attribute your multi-cloud spend across AWS, Azure, and GCP. This step-by-step tutorial shows you how to create a cost allocation, choose accounts, apply labels, configure allocation levels, and read the hierarchical allocation report by cloud, account, and region. Cost allocation is the foundation of FinOps. It tells you exactly which teams, projects, and cost centers are driving your cloud bill so you can charge back, budget, and optimize with confidence.
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nexthink

Let them watch the World Cup. Your network will thank you.

Jul 10, 2026 By Megan Brake In Nexthink
Every four years, workplaces around the world face the same dilemma. The World Cup kicks off, calendars mysteriously empty during match times, and IT teams brace for an invisible surge in traffic. Many employers try to block the streams and fight the inevitable. But what if the smarter business move is simply to accept reality? If your employees are going to watch the World Cup anyway, don't make them do it individually on their work laptops.
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honeycomb

Observability vs. Monitoring for AI Systems

Jul 10, 2026 By Kale Bogdanovs In Honeycomb
Monitoring tells you when an event you predicted has actually happened. Observability lets you investigate behavior you may not have predicted at all. For most of the past decade, that distinction was something teams could afford to treat as a philosophical debate, because their systems failed in expected ways that had been seen before. A memory leak, a bad deploy, a saturated connection pool. You could build a dashboard and alerts for each and sleep reasonably well.
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eg innovations

Network Observability Tools: Complete Guide for Cloud-Native Applications

Jul 10, 2026 By John Williams In eG Innovations
Modern IT ecosystems have undergone a profound transformation. Organizations have shifted from monolithic applications running on static infrastructure to highly distributed, cloud-native environments powered by microservices, containers, and Kubernetes. This shift has unlocked unprecedented scalability and agility, but it has also introduced new layers of complexity that traditional monitoring tools were never designed to handle.
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selector

Selector Named as a Representative Vendor in the 2026 Gartner Market Guide for Agentic NetOps Software

Jul 10, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Network teams have never been short on expertise. What they are short on is time. As enterprise environments stretch across on-premises infrastructure, cloud, and service-provider domains, the work of investigating issues, validating changes, and coordinating a response across tools and teams has outrun what human-driven operations can sustain.
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scout

Unified Logs, Traces, and Errors: Why One Tool Beats Three

Jul 10, 2026 By Sarah Morgan In Scout
Last updated: July 2026 Your Rails app throws a 500. You open Sentry and find the exception. The stack trace points to a controller action, but it does not tell you why the database call failed. You switch to Datadog and search for the request trace. The trace shows a 3-second query, but you do not know what the application was logging at that moment. You open your log aggregator, paste in the request ID, and scroll through output until you find the slow query log line that explains the lock contention.
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How Agentic AIOps & Autonomous IT Are Revolutionizing IT Operations | LogicMonitor + IBM

Jul 10, 2026 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
Discover how LogicMonitor and IBM, alongside Edwin AI, are transforming modern IT operations. In this panel discussion, Garth Fort (Chief Product Officer at LogicMonitor) and industry experts break down how businesses are moving past basic observability to embrace self-healing automation and autonomous IT across complex hybrid environments.
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auvik

How to Know If Your MSP is Ready for Network Monitoring Tools

Jul 10, 2026 By Amanda Doucette-Lachapelle In Auvik
Network monitoring is a cornerstone of running a profitable MSP. If you don’t have network visibility, you’re constantly on the back foot and reacting to client complaints. That’s why MSPs of all sizes typically implement some level of network monitoring. However, what a good set of network monitoring tools looks like for one organization won’t necessarily work for another.
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manageengine

Top tips: How to be an essentialist at work

Jul 9, 2026 By Alsherin In ManageEngine
Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and share ways to stay ahead. This week, let's look at a few ways you can become an essentialist at work. It's easy to fill up our calendar with tasks that may not be impactful, but we end up feeling falsely accomplished. This happens to us more often than we realize, and the antidote to this is to be an essentialist.
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grafana

Business intelligence plugins for Grafana: A support update

Jul 9, 2026 By Thanos Karachalios In Grafana
In January, we announced that Grafana Labs had assumed maintenance of the business intelligence (BI) plugins created by Volkov Labs, and committed to a six-month maintenance period. Today, we’re sharing an update: we're extending our maintenance commitment through the end of 2026. As announced earlier this year, that commitment includes maintaining compatibility with recent Grafana releases while handling bug fixes, security updates, and community contributions on a best-effort basis.
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motadata

10 Best Endpoint Management Software Tools in 2026

Jul 9, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
What makes one endpoint management tool better than another? Not the feature list. Almost every tool claims patching, asset tracking, and automation. What matters is whether it holds up across a few hundred machines, and how much time it hands back to your team. For most IT teams, a good tool needs to: We looked at 10 of the best endpoint management software tools for 2026. We read through G2 and Gartner Peer Insights ratings, checked vendor pricing pages, and went through user reviews.
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motadata

ITSM Knowledge Management: How to Build a Knowledge Base Your Team Will Actually Use

Jul 9, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
How many times should your service desk solve the same problem before it becomes shared knowledge? A senior agent on a 14-person service desk we worked with last quarter had answered the same question four times in two days for four different employees. The solution was already documented but buried in a wiki nobody could find. That is exactly the gap ITSM knowledge management is designed to close.
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When Does a Self-Service Portal Actually Reduce Tickets?

Jul 9, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
A self-service portal is designed to reduce IT support tickets by enabling employees to solve common issues on their own. But if self-service is supposed to improve efficiency, why do so many portals remain unused while help desk queues continue to grow? In this video, you'll learn what a self-service portal is, why many organizations struggle with low adoption, and the three key factors that determine whether your portal actually reduces ticket volume.
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observiq

Claude Code Monitoring at Scale: Gateways and Routing With OpenTelemetry

Jul 9, 2026 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
Chelsea and I recently wrote a guide on how we monitor Claude Code usage internally with Bindplane. TLDR; We remotely manage a Bindplane Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector (BDOT) that runs on every engineer's laptop. This setup is great, but it has one downside. Sending to Google Cloud Monitoring, Swarmia, and any other destination directly from an engineer’s laptop is limited to local processing. You can’t get the benefit of centralized routing and processing on a gateway.
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sentry

When and what should I be logging?

Jul 9, 2026 By Ben Coe In Sentry
This is a follow-up to Sergiy’s post Errors, traces, logs, metrics: when to reach for what. Modern observability platforms, like Sentry, give developers a lot of choice. For a given problem, should you use traces, profiles, metrics, logs? If you take away one thing from this post, I hope it’s this: when in doubt, start by adding a few targeted log lines.
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Skylar Advisor Guided Walkthrough

Jul 9, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Learn how Skylar Advisor helps IT operations teams move beyond monitoring to AI-driven operational intelligence. In this walkthrough, you'll see how Skylar Advisor helps operators investigate issues, identify meaningful operational risks, collaborate more effectively, and predict potential problems before they impact services. In this video you'll discover Skylar Advisors key features like: By combining Ask Skylar, investigations, advisories, and predictions, Skylar Advisor helps IT teams reduce noise, focus on what matters most, and proactively improve service reliability.
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Build an SRE Agent Harness for AIOps Without Context Blowout

Jul 9, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
An agent harness for AIOps is the runtime layer that coding agents like Claude Code were never built to provide: context isolation, decision traceability, and gated execution for tools that touch production. Aura is Mezmo's open-source (Apache 2.0) agent harness, purpose-built for operations work rather than software development.
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honeycomb

Multi-Agent Collaboration on a Shared Canvas

Jul 8, 2026 By Moses Mendoza In Honeycomb
This post was co-written with Staff Software Engineer Martin Holman. Honeycomb Canvas is a collaborative investigation environment. When something goes wrong in production, multiple engineers might join the same Canvas to debug it together. Each person has their own AI agent, so they can pursue their own conversation thread and line of inquiry. This creates an opportunity for coordination.
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elastic

The future of governing AI agents

Jul 8, 2026 By Marcus Jeffes In Elastic
How to build governance into autonomous security agents from the architecture up The industry has moved fast on capabilities. Agents now triage alerts, investigate endpoints, create detection rules, and enrich indicators, and they are even capable of performing most actions we as security operators can perform. The architecture patterns are maturing, as are the models, but governance is not keeping pace.
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icinga

Two Days Away From the Keyboard: Our Team Event Recap

Jul 8, 2026 By Feu Mourek In Icinga
Once a year, the Icinga team goes for a team event somewhere about an hour or two away from the office. This year’s edition landed us at the Adventure Campus in Treuchtlichen, right in the middle of this year’s first heatwave. The heat was unbearable. At one point we gave up on the room we had been using and moved everyone down into a basement meeting room instead. It was quite a bit more retro in style, with an overhead projector, that we had a lot of fun with.
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obkio

How to Hold Your ISP Accountable: Network Monitoring for Schools & Multi-Site Public Institutions

Jul 8, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
The Internet at one of your school sites slows to a crawl. Teachers can't load their lesson plans. A video call for a virtual class freezes. Your IT team calls the ISP. The ISP runs its own checks and tells you everything looks fine on their end. Sound familiar? This is the core problem every school board and public institution runs into eventually. Your ISP has full visibility into their own network. You don't.
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AI-powered monitoring with Site24x7's Zia

Jul 8, 2026 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
In this video, you'll learn how to integrate Large Language Models (LLMs) with Site24x7 using Bring Your Own Key (BYOK), Zoho Key Services (ZKS), and Microsoft Azure OpenAI. Discover how Zia helps you analyze outages, understand performance issues, identify root causes, and get monitoring insights using simple natural-language queries. What you'll learn.
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datadog

Monitor your .NET MAUI apps with Datadog RUM

Jul 8, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
As.NET Multi-platform App UI (MAUI) becomes the default cross-platform UI framework in the Microsoft ecosystem, many teams are standardizing on it to build mobile applications for iOS and Android. However, observability has not kept pace with the shift in adoption. Developers often rely on unsupported community bindings or maintain their own wrappers around native iOS and Android SDKs, which introduces instability and ongoing maintenance.
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motadata

Best IT Help Desk Software in 2026: 10 Tools Compared

Jul 8, 2026 By Jagdish Sajnani In Motadata
How do you pick the right IT help desk software when every vendor calls itself the best? It comes down to three things. Your team size, your deployment rules, and whether you need full ITSM or plain ticketing. A five-person startup can run support from a shared inbox. A 200-person IT team cannot. Add asset tracking, SLAs, and change control, and that inbox falls apart. The right IT support software routes tickets on its own, links every request to the asset behind it, and shows you where time goes.
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What Is Packet Loss? Causes, Symptoms & How to Fix It

Jul 8, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this video, learn what packet loss is, why it happens, and how it silently impacts your network performance even when monitoring dashboards appear healthy. Discover the most common causes of packet loss, how it affects applications like video calls and web services, and why identifying the root cause quickly is critical for maintaining a reliable network.
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manageengine

The invisible visitor: Why the internet is no longer just for humans

Jul 7, 2026 By Harsitha P In ManageEngine
"Every website was once designed for people. That assumption is beginning to change." For nearly three decades, the internet has worked in a predictable way. Whenever we wanted to know something, we searched for it, clicked through a few websites, compared information, and made a decision. Whether it was buying a new phone, planning a vacation, or researching software for work, businesses knew exactly how people behaved online.
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The SolarWinds Customer Zero Story

Jul 7, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
In this SolarWinds Customer Zero story, team members share how they use SolarWinds products every day across observability, incident response, enterprise service management, log analytics, Kubernetes monitoring, and self-hosted infrastructure monitoring. Hear how internal teams serve as the first customer by testing real-world workflows, sending direct product feedback, and helping shape the platform through hands-on use.
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Site24x7 Free Training Series - Session 1: Introduction, Website Monitoring, RUM & DRA

Jul 7, 2026 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Welcome to Day 1 of the Site24x7 Training Program! This is the first session in our 5-part training series covering every module of Site24x7. In this session, we introduce the platform and take a deep dive into: Website Monitoring Real User Monitoring (RUM) Digital Risk Analyser (DRA) Session 1 – Introduction & Website Monitoring, Real User Monitoring, Digital Risk Analyser.
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ScienceLogic

From Alerting to Assurance: Why Proactive Operations Define Trust at Scale

Jul 7, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
There’s a difference between seeing a problem and preventing one is not a question of tooling. It is a question of operational posture. Across eleven operator interviews at Nexus Live, a consistent pattern emerged. Teams are not struggling because they lack visibility. They are struggling because visibility alone does not produce confidence. Alert floods, late root cause discovery, and 3am escalations have become normalized in hybrid environments. The result is not just fatigue.
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datadog

DASH 2026 recap: Product news, sessions, and highlights

Jul 7, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
DASH 2026 brought thousands of engineers, builders, security professionals, and technology leaders to New York City for 2½ days focused on building, operating, and securing modern systems. Across hands-on sessions and more than 40 customer talks, teams shared how they’re tackling real-world challenges at scale with Datadog. On stage, the keynote set the direction for what’s next across observability, security, and AI, highlighting a shift toward more autonomous, AI-assisted operations.
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Runtime Aware PR Verifier | Lightrun

Jul 7, 2026 By Lightrun In Lightrun
Lightrun's Or Golan demos the Runtime Aware PR Verifier, a new Lightrun product that simulates pull requests against live runtime behavior before you merge. Watch use Lightrun to simulate an AI-generated PR, identify the affected production flows, and uncover a hidden risk that static review would miss. Instead of only asking whether the code looks correct, Runtime Aware PR Verifier checks whether the change matches how your system actually behaves in production.
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grafana

How to scale access control in Grafana Cloud

Jul 7, 2026 By Jake Batty In Grafana
One of the primary reasons organizations adopt Grafana Cloud is to create a single pane of glass across the data they collect from self-hosted systems, cloud providers, and third-party platforms. Bringing those signals together enables richer correlations, reduces tool sprawl, and makes it easier for teams to understand what's happening across their environment. But as observability grows and becomes more centralized, access management becomes more important.
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lightrun

Deterministic vs Probabilistic AI Engineering Explained

Jul 7, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
Deterministic processes carry one guarantee: the same input will produce the same output. That guarantee built the entire observability stack. AI broke that contract by reasoning in terms of probability. The same input can now produce different outputs, whether from AI-generated code that carries assumptions invisible in staging, or from distributed systems where timing creates failures that no pre-captured telemetry can anticipate.
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Called it (mostly): Checking in on 2026 predictions so far

Jul 7, 2026 By Sumo Logic, Inc. In Sumo Logic
On this episode of Masters of Data, we revisit the predictions Adam White, Zoe Hawkins, and David Girvin made at the end of last year, checking our own scorecard halfway through 2026. The hits: agents running amok and deleting databases, MCP becoming the backbone for tracking what agents actually do, growing security gaps around personal data, and a collective rejection of low-quality AI content. The misses: we underestimated how fast companies would cut staff for AI, then quietly start rehiring once the agents couldn't cover the work, and we're still arguing about whether token burn is a cost problem or a coming attack vector.
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Sentry 201: Build agentic workflows with the Sentry MCP, CLI and Seer

Jul 7, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry
Agents are pretty good at fixing your apps. We can make them even better. ​In this workshop we’re going to show you how to give your agents superpowers using Seer, the Sentry MCP server, and CLI tool. Join to learn how to: ​- Teach agents how to best implement and work with Sentry through agent skills and the CLI tool. ​- Set up Seer’s agent handoff feature for Claude, Cursor, or GitHub Copilot and have agents start automatically generating pull requests for fixes.
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Amit explains AO

Jul 7, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
Most enterprises have observability tools. What they often lack is a shared view between application and infrastructure teams. When application performance degrades, finding the root cause can be slow because the data lives in separate silos. Virtana brings application observability and infrastructure intelligence together in a single platform, helping teams identify issues faster, collaborate more effectively, and shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations.
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raygun

Proactive error management: Collaborate effectively and work smarter with tags

Jul 6, 2026 By Zheng Li In Raygun
Talking to many of our customers with different needs and use cases, one particular issue comes up all the time. When I'm seeing so many error groups in my app and so many error notifications in my inbox every day, it's easy to end up feeling overwhelmed. I want a more proactive system to alert me to which errors need attention and when, so that I can stop getting buried. Does this hit home? Then this article is written for you, the tech leads and the product managers who are on the front-line of issue prioritization.
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meshiq

ActiveMQ Backup and Disaster Recovery: Complete DR Guide

Jul 6, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
A message broker's backup and disaster recovery plan is the last line of defense against scenarios that HA cannot address: a full datacenter outage, catastrophic hardware failure that destroys both primary and secondary nodes, accidental message deletion, or KahaDB corruption that prevents the broker from starting.
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meshiq

ActiveMQ JVM Memory & GC Tuning: Heap Sizing, G1GC, ZGC Guide

Jul 6, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
The JVM is the runtime foundation of every ActiveMQ deployment. Message throughput, delivery latency, producer flow control triggers, OOM crashes, and GC-induced delivery pauses all trace back to JVM memory configuration. Yet ActiveMQ ships with a 512MB heap and no GC logging, appropriate for a developer laptop, not for an enterprise message broker handling millions of messages a day.
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honeycomb

From Prototype to Production With AWS AgentCore

Jul 6, 2026 By Moses Mendoza In Honeycomb
"Hello world, this is your agent speaking!" The agent loop! The LLM is calling tools, the answers are sensible, and the sky's the limit. Now, as you look forward to production, you look for a composable toolset, something that can grow with your use case and system needs. That's what we created with Honeycomb Canvas: a collaborative investigation space where AI agents help you understand, fix, and learn about your system.
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Tech Talk: Observability Simplified, APM and Network Behavior

Jul 6, 2026 By Splunk In Splunk
Participants are welcomed to a session titled "Observability Simplified," focusing on user experience, application performance, and network behavior. This second part of a three-part series highlights how the Splunk Observability Cloud and Cisco ThousandEyes can create a unified view of applications, infrastructure, and network performance. Key discussions include addressing siloed troubleshooting, enhancing visibility, and a live demo showcasing how to identify network issues affecting application performance. Attendees are encouraged to participate in the Q&A and are reminded that the session will be recorded for future reference.
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SLA vs SLO vs SLI Explained: What Should You Track?

Jul 6, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this video, learn the difference between SLA, SLO, and SLI and why understanding each one is essential for delivering reliable IT services. Discover how these three service level metrics work together and why tracking the right one helps improve service reliability, customer satisfaction, and operational performance. Whether you're an IT operations professional, SRE, DevOps engineer, or service manager, this video explains SLA, SLO, and SLI in simple terms so you can build measurable goals and realistic service commitments.
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motadata

8 Best Patch Management Software for 2026

Jul 6, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Somewhere in your environment, a patch is sitting in a queue because the last rollout broke something, and nobody wants to run it again. That is the exact failure mode good patch management software is supposed to prevent, and multiplied across a few hundred endpoints, it is exactly the kind of gap attackers look for.
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elastic

Q&A: How Elastic and Anyshift are bringing AI-powered context to incident response

Jul 6, 2026 By Sunnie Weber In Elastic
Incident response often depends on connecting two kinds of context: what changed in the environment and what the logs say happened next. Through a new integration with Elastic, Anyshift’s AI agent, Annie, can read from a customer’s Elasticsearch deployment to search logs, surface error and warning spikes, and correlate log evidence with infrastructure change history.
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MCP vs CLI: Does it even make a difference? | Live Laugh Logs ep. 3

Jul 6, 2026 By Coralogix In Coralogix
MCP vs CLI: does it even make a difference? Here’s everything you need to know. Welcome to Episode 3 of Live Laugh Logs, the podcast from the Coralogix Developer Relations team. This week Andre has made the move to the US, so Annie and Lewis are joined by George Pickers, Head of Solution Engineering for EMEA & APAC at Coralogix.
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datadog

Monitor watchOS and visionOS apps with Datadog RUM

Jul 6, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
Apple’s platform ecosystem is evolving as developers build production applications for watchOS and visionOS. Whether it’s a fitness app on Apple Watch or an immersive spatial computing experience on Apple Vision Pro, these platforms have moved beyond the experimental phase to support real users. Despite this growth in adoption, teams lack visibility into how their apps behave on these devices.
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appsignal

Introducing AppSignal for Startups

Jul 6, 2026 By Serena Chou In AppSignal
Good monitoring shouldn't be a luxury for well-funded teams. Early-stage startups run the same production systems as everyone else, on a tighter budget. That's when clear observability earns its keep. Today we're launching AppSignal for Startups: an ongoing discount on the full AppSignal platform for early-stage teams, with a better deal for Y Combinator companies.
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logicmonitor

What Is VMware vSphere? vSphere vs. ESXi vs. vCenter

Jul 6, 2026 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
VMware vSphere is the platform that unifies ESXi and vCenter into a complete solution for running and managing virtual machines. VMware vSphere is not a single product, but a full virtualization platform and product suite that includes ESXi, vCenter, and other tools for managing workloads. It provides the foundation for running virtual machines (VMs) on a hypervisor and gives IT teams the ability to centralize management across multiple servers, clusters, and applications.
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Stop Guessing Why Latency Spiked | Lightrun

Jul 6, 2026 By Lightrun In Lightrun
Latency spikes are easy to detect. Understanding why they happened is the hard part. Gidi Freud explains how Lightrun helps engineers debug latency spikes by automatically capturing runtime context when a execution of code exceeds a defined threshold. Instead of only seeing that a method or code block was slow, you can capture local variables and source location from the exact execution that crossed the threshold.
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Overview of Alerts, Real-Time Analysis, & Traceroute

Jul 6, 2026 By Uptime Website Monitoring In uptime
Learn how Uptime.com alerts you the moment a check goes Up or Down, complete with technical details and root cause analysis for API and Transaction checks. Dive into Real-Time Analysis to track outage timelines and get detailed insight into every alert. Plus, see how Traceroute from global or private probe servers helps identify connection issues quickly and accurately. Stay informed. Respond faster. Resolve smarter.
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Intelligent Packaging Operations: Quality Control and Production Line Monitoring

Intelligent Packaging Operations: Quality Control and Production Line Monitoring

Jul 5, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A lipstick tube looks simple. But making millions of them with consistent color, fit, and feel is hard. The packaging industry runs on tight tolerances. A cap that is 0.1mm too loose will fail a brand's quality check. A bottle with a scratch gets thrown out. Packaging for cosmetics, personal care, and household products faces the same operational challenges. High volume. Strict quality. Short lead times. Here is how modern technology helps solve these problems.
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Lifting Equipment Operations: Safety Monitoring and IoT-Enabled Maintenance

Lifting Equipment Operations: Safety Monitoring and IoT-Enabled Maintenance

Jul 5, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A tower crane lifts ten tons of steel 50 meters up. A gantry crane in a shipyard moves containers weighing 40 tons. A winch pulls a vehicle onto a flatbed. These operations have one thing in common: failure is not an option. Lifting equipment operates in some of the most demanding environments on earth. Construction sites, shipyards, mines, and warehouses all depend on it. When a crane fails or a sling breaks, the results can be catastrophic. Here is how technology improves safety and uptime.
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logicmonitor

How to Consolidate Your Azure & Multi-Cloud Monitoring and Avoid Tool Sprawl

Jul 4, 2026 By Nishant Kabra In LogicMonitor
This is the eighth blog in our Azure Monitoring series, where we look at a challenge many organizations face as Azure and multi-cloud environments expand: monitoring tool sprawl. What starts as a few monitoring solutions for different needs can turn into disconnected dashboards, duplicate alerts, and fragmented visibility.
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icinga

Icinga Web 2.14, Security Releases, and Module Updates

Jul 3, 2026 By Ravi Srinivasa In Icinga
We are shipping a new batch of Icinga Web ecosystem releases today. Icinga Web 2.14 is the headline, bringing the baseline for two-factor authentication support, configurable password policies, a configurable Content Security Policy, and a round of developer tooling improvements that have been in the works for a while. Icinga Certificate Monitoring 1.4, Icinga Reporting 1.1, and Icinga PDF Export 0.13 join it with PHP 8.5 support across the board and a set of focused improvements for each module.
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VictoriaMetrics

Observability for LLM Apps and Agents: OpenLIT SDK + VictoriaMetrics observability stack

Jul 3, 2026 By Aman Agarwal / Roman Khavronenko In VictoriaMetrics
Many “LLM observability with OpenTelemetry” tutorials stop at a single chat.completions span. That works for a demo, but it leaves gaps once an agent fans out into 30 tool calls, two vector-DB queries, three handoffs, and a 90-second tail latency you need to attribute. This post wires the OpenLIT SDK (50+ instrumentations, OTel GenAI semantic conventions, one line of code) into the full VictoriaMetrics observability stack and shows query examples that turn agent telemetry into decisions.
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atatus

Choosing the Right APM Software: 5 Key Factors to Consider in 2026

Jul 3, 2026 By Mohana Ayeswariya J In Atatus
When applications slow down, users leave, and engineering teams scramble. Whether you're troubleshooting a spike in response times or chasing down intermittent backend failures, Application Performance Monitoring (APM) provides the visibility you need to detect, diagnose, and resolve performance issues before they impact your users or business goals. For engineers, APM isn’t just a convenience - it’s essential. But not all APM tools are created equal.
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motadata

What is Network Configuration Management

Jul 3, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Many network outages usually start with something as small as a configuration change that nobody logged. One undocumented edit to a firewall or a core switch can lead to the team losing hours working out what changed, on which device, and how to undo it. Across cloud, SD-WAN, and multi-vendor stacks, that guesswork only gets more expensive. Network configuration management takes the guesswork off the table.
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motadata

DevOps with Kubernetes: How to Reduce Cluster Toil and Complexity

Jul 3, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Has Kubernetes made your DevOps team faster, or just busier? Most teams adopt it for speed and portability, and they get both. What arrives with it is a quieter cost: the operational weight of running the cluster day to day. That weight shows up in the manual work the platform was supposed to eliminate. A resource limit set incorrectly can waste infrastructure for months.
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motadata

Unified Observability: Moving IT Teams from Reactive to Predictive

Jul 3, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
What does it take to stop an outage before it starts? In many cases, the warning signs are already there, scattered across different monitoring tools, which makes it difficult to see the full picture before issues escalate. When an incident occurs, engineers often spend valuable time piecing together metrics, logs, traces, and alerts to determine the root cause. Every minute spent investigating extends the outage and increases its business impact.
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statusgator

Introducing relationships for Service Monitors

Jul 2, 2026 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator
Understanding a service outage is easier when you can see what it’s connected to. That’s why we’re introducing Relationships for Service Monitors, one of the most requested features from StatusGator’s hundreds of enterprise IT teams. You can now explore related services directly from the Service Details page by opening the Relationships dropdown.
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statusgator

June 2026 Early Warning Signals

Jul 2, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
June 2026 saw major outages across ecommerce, AI, developer tools, and business applications. StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals surfaced many of these incidents before providers updated their official status pages. Of the 1,067 incidents detected by StatusGator in June, only 191 (17.9%) were eventually acknowledged by providers.
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Avantra

From Zero to Managed in Record Time

Jul 2, 2026 By Avantra Team In Avantra
If you’ve spent any time in the SAP ecosystem, you know the “Configuration Tax.” It’s that invisible, compounding fee paid in hours, manual effort, and caffeine. SAP teams pay tax every time new systems or integrations are brought under observability and management. For years, the industry accepted that observability required a heavy initial lift.
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eg innovations

VDI Monitoring: How to Ensure High-Performance Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Jul 2, 2026 By Venkat Narayanan In eG Innovations
Remote and hybrid work turned virtual desktops from a niche IT choice into a core way employees get their jobs done. When a desktop lives in the data center or the cloud, every logon, click, and screen refresh depends on infrastructure the user never sees. That shift is why VDI monitoring matters: it protects the end-user experience when the desktop is no longer local. The challenge is that a single slow session can have dozens of causes—across compute, storage, network, and the broker layer.
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motadata

What is DPDPA Compliance? A Complete Guide

Jul 2, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
If your organisation handles the personal data of people in India, the DPDPA applies to you and compliance is a legal requirement. The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is now backed by the DPDP Rules 2025, and the Data Protection Board of India can impose fines of up to ₹250 crore for a single contravention. The obligation your IT and security teams own most directly is security safeguards under Section 8, and it is one of the first things a regulator looks at after a breach.
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checkly

Autoscaling Checkly Private Location Agents in Kubernetes with KEDA

Jul 2, 2026 By Edvinas Janusevicius In Checkly
Monitoring load is not always steady. A team might add a new batch of checks or run several ad hoc tests during a rollout. When that happens, your Private Location agents need to pick up more work at once. If there aren’t enough agents available during a burst, checks start piling up in the queue, which can delay or disrupt check execution. But solving this by running a high number of agents around the clock has the opposite problem: most of that capacity sits idle until the next busy period.
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ITSM Maturity Playbook Live, Episode 2 | The CMDB is Your Map

Jul 2, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Join this 5-part series designed to help IT teams move from reactive, fragmented processes to a more structured, connected way of working. Each session focuses on a core area, from incident resolution and CMDB visibility to employee experience, service catalog design, and change governance, giving you practical frameworks you can apply right away. You’ll walk away with: Faster, more consistent incident resolution.
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logicmonitor

What Are Network Performance Metrics? How to Track and Fix Issues (2026)

Jul 2, 2026 By Dennis Milholm In LogicMonitor
Network performance metrics are real-time measurements of how data moves across your network, from speed and capacity to delay, loss, and reliability. Network performance metrics are the diagnostic layer between your infrastructure and your users. They explain why things are slow, dropped, or unreachable by capturing everything from how fast packets travel and how much bandwidth is in use to how often data gets dropped or delayed.
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motadata

9 Best Azure Monitoring Tools Compared for 2026

Jul 2, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
When an Azure service slows down or stops responding, you often hear about it from a user before your monitoring says a word. It only gets harder as you scale: Azure now runs about a fifth of the world's cloud workloads (Statista, 2026), and every new service is one more place a failure can hide. By the end, you will have a shortlist for your stack. You will also know which tools to skip, without sitting through nine sales demos to find out.
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appsignal

Monitor Your PHP Applications with AppSignal

Jul 2, 2026 By Karen Patteri de Souza In AppSignal
Good news for PHP developers: AppSignal monitoring is now available for PHP applications. Our new package brings traces, metrics, and logs from your PHP app into AppSignal, with auto-instrumentation for frameworks like Laravel and Symfony and a foundation built on OpenTelemetry. Already using AppSignal's PHP package and want the latest updates? Migrating is straightforward: remove your current OpenTelemetry setup and follow our new install guide.
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honeycomb

Could vs. Should: The First Year Managing an SRE Team

Jul 2, 2026 By Reid Savage In Honeycomb
As of today, I’ve drafted this post upwards of 10 times – it’s old enough that the version I first started working on was called “Reflections on 1 Year of SRE Management” (I’m currently at 2.5 years). But everything I learned during that first year became critical for the next.
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selector

When One Agent Plans and Another Executes, the Planner's View Decides Everything

Jul 2, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Split network operations into a planning agent and an executing agent and you have an elegant design on paper. One agent reasons about what should change and validates it. The other carries it out. The elegance is real, and so is the structural consequence: the split puts the entire weight of judgment on the planner. A plan built on a partial view, then executed precisely and at machine speed, is more dangerous than a cautious human who would have hesitated at the part that did not add up.
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Overview of Alerts, Real-Time Analysis, & Traceroute

Jul 2, 2026 By Uptime Website Monitoring In uptime
Learn how Uptime.com alerts you the moment a check goes Up or Down, complete with technical details and root cause analysis for API and Transaction checks. Dive into Real-Time Analysis to track outage timelines and get detailed insight into every alert. Plus, see how Traceroute from global or private probe servers helps identify connection issues quickly and accurately. Stay informed. Respond faster. Resolve smarter.
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logicmonitor

Self-Healing ITOps: Close the Loop From Detection to Resolution

Jul 2, 2026 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Self-healing ITOps helps restore services faster by combining AI-driven analysis, automation, and recovery validation. Organizations have invested heavily in monitoring, observability, and AIOps. These platforms are effective at identifying issues, but incident resolution is often still a manual process. Engineers still need to investigate alerts, determine the appropriate remediation, and verify that services have recovered.
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sentry

Any Apple update can break our app. Here's how we find out first.

Jul 2, 2026 By Dan Mindru In Sentry
This is a guest post by Dan Mindru, a Frontend Developer and Designer who is also the co-host of the Morning Maker Show. Dan is currently developing a number of applications including PageUI, Clobbr, and CronTool. It feels like with every release, we are walking a tightrope. We need to keep our app lightweight, stable, and performant, all the while depending on APIs that can shift at any moment (without warning, too!).
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virtualmetric

You Can't Detect What You Never Collect: Telemetry Coverage in the Agentic SOC

Jul 2, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Every detection rule, every threat hunt, every AI agent you deploy rests on one silent assumption: that the data describing an attack actually reached your tools. When it doesn’t, nothing above it can save you, and no one gets an alert that the data was missing. Security teams invest heavily in the sharp end of the stack: detection content, threat intelligence, response playbooks, and increasingly, AI agents to triage and investigate at machine speed.
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What Is NetFlow, and How Does It Reveal Where Traffic Goes?

Jul 2, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this video, learn what NetFlow is and why it's one of the most effective technologies for understanding network traffic. Discover how NetFlow goes beyond basic bandwidth monitoring by showing who is using your network, what applications are consuming bandwidth, and how traffic patterns change over time. Whether you're a network administrator, IT operations engineer, or infrastructure manager, this video explains NetFlow in simple terms and shows how it helps identify bandwidth hogs, troubleshoot slow networks, and make smarter capacity planning decisions.
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ScienceLogic

New in Skylar One - Kyoto: Better Context for Faster, More Confident IT Operations

Jul 2, 2026 By ScienceLogic In ScienceLogic
Modern IT environments do not fail in neat, isolated ways. A network issue in one location can affect a business service somewhere else. A device alert may be the first sign of a larger dependency problem. And when teams are managing infrastructure across data centers, cloud, branches, campuses, and edge environments, the first challenge is often knowing where to look first. The issue is not alert volume alone. It is the missing context between telemetry, service impact, probable cause, and action.
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site24x7

Improving MTTR with AIOps: Myth or Fact?

Jul 1, 2026 By Sangavi Dass In Site24x7
There was a version of daily life, not long ago, that ran entirely on physical effort. Booking a trip meant a visit to a travel agent. Ordering lunch meant walking to a restaurant or calling and hoping someone picked up. Buying something for the home meant a trip to the store and a checkout queue. Paying a bill meant visiting a bank branch and engaging with a teller. None of it was instant, and nobody expected it to be.
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site24x7

How Agentic AI speeds up troubleshooting application issues

Jul 1, 2026 By Sangavi Dass In Site24x7
One night, Daniel Rizzy was the only person awake on Zylker’s IT team, and the clock was already running. He was also the only thing standing between a P1 outage and 10,000 customers. Rizzy works nights for ZylkerXchange, Zylker’s foreign currency exchange app. He lives on the city’s outskirts, where the air is clean and quiet, and the night shift suited that life. Most nights, nothing happened. Some nights, everything did.
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nexthink

The Next Enterprise AI Challenge: The Multi-Model Workplace

Jul 1, 2026 By Shawn Lazarus In Nexthink
For the last two years, enterprise AI strategy has largely focused on one thing: adoption. Organizations encouraged employees to experiment with ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, Gemini, and dozens of emerging AI tools in the hope that productivity gains would naturally follow. CIOs approved pilots, departments launched AI task forces, and leaders pushed teams to integrate AI into everyday work as quickly as possible. But the enterprise AI conversation is beginning to change.
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motadata

ServiceNow Pricing Explained for 2026: Plans, Tiers, and Hidden Costs

Jul 1, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
ServiceNow is a powerful, highly customizable platform built for the complex operations of mid-sized and large enterprises. Its strength is flexibility, with modules spanning IT service management (ITSM), IT operations management (ITOM), HR service delivery, customer service management, and security operations. That modular structure is also why ServiceNow pricing is not sold as a standard price list.
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LogicMonitor and Edwin AI: Autonomous IT for Hybrid IT Environments

Jul 1, 2026 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
Autonomous IT starts now with LogicMonitor and Edwin AI, built to help IT teams monitor complex hybrid IT environments, discover root cause faster, reduce downtime, and prevent incidents before they impact revenue or brand reputation. See how LogicMonitor brings AI-powered IT operations, observability, and incident prevention together for modern infrastructure teams.
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logicmonitor

Best Network Monitoring Tools in 2026: Compare Top Platforms

Jul 1, 2026 By LogicMonitor In LogicMonitor
Most network monitoring tools alert you that a device is down. The best ones help you determine whether the problem is your WAN circuit, your ISP, or your SaaS provider before your users file a ticket. Traditional network monitoring tools were built for static networks. You poll devices, check interface counters, and still can’t explain why users are complaining about latency.
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Monitor DigitalOcean in Grafana with MetricFire

Jul 1, 2026 By MetricFire In MetricFire
Monitoring your DigitalOcean infrastructure just got easier. MetricFire now integrates natively with DigitalOcean, so you can connect your account and start streaming metrics from Droplets, Load Balancers, Managed Databases, and more directly into Grafana. No agents. No setup overhead. No dashboard stitching. Get full visibility into your DigitalOcean infrastructure from one dashboard, live in minutes.
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lightrun

How AI Agents Are Changing Each Agile SDLC Phase

Jul 1, 2026 By Lightrun Team In Lightrun
The Agile software development lifecycle was designed to surface problems early, with short sprints, iterative testing, and continuous integration built on the premise that faster feedback loops produce better software. AI coding tools have changed the velocity equation across every phase of that loop, but the phases designed to catch failures are struggling to keep up because build speed and validation capacity have not accelerated at the same rate, and the gap between them is widening with every sprint.
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Availability, Performance and Behavior : The Big Picture of Network Intelligence

Jul 1, 2026 By Progress WhatsUp Gold In WhatsUp Gold
In this session, we will introduce the third dimension of network monitoring: behavioral intelligence built into the Progress WhatsUp Gold network monitoring solution. Where other tools, like SolarWinds and PRTG, require multiple modules, complex rule-writing, integrations or additional overhead, the WhatsUp Gold solution uses AI-driven behavioral analysis to automatically baseline what’s normal in your network and unveils deviations early.
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sentry

Reading the agent traces is how you make the call your eval can't

Jul 1, 2026 By Sergiy Dybskiy In Sentry
Remember being excited (or dreading, depending on the stage of your career and the company you worked at) about writing unit tests? Or sweating all the details in your end-to-end and integration tests you were sure covered all the use cases your users would hit? These days a lot of UIs are slowly being replaced by a single input field and an agent that promises to deliver the same value a UI would, but with the elegance and pun-ness of a “Jarvis”.
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DevEx Talks ep 6 - Working Neurodivergent: What Helps, What Doesn't

Jul 1, 2026 By VictoriaMetrics In VictoriaMetrics
In this episode, we explore neurodiversity in tech and beyond with guests Carl Alexander and Zach Stepek. They share firsthand experiences of what has helped them thrive as neurodivergent professionals and what has not. Together, they discuss the importance of community as a key factor in empowerment, growth, and long-term success for neurodivergent individuals in both work and life. PlayList Resources for Further Learning.
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A Four-Step Blueprint for Faster Root Cause Analysis: A Logz.io Webinar

Jul 1, 2026 By Logz.io In logz.io
Incident investigations take so long not because the fix is hard, but because finding the right fix is. Most engineers spend 20 to 60 minutes just understanding what’s wrong before they can act, not fixing anything, just trying to see the full picture. The framework that changes this has four steps: Orient, Isolate, Hypothesize, and Verify, and the order matters more than the tools.
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influxdata

What's New in InfluxDB and Telegraf: Q2 2026 Product Updates

Jul 1, 2026 By Ryan Nelson In InfluxData
Summary: Q2 was about giving teams more leverage with less overhead. Between April and June 2026, releases across Telegraf, InfluxDB 3, and InfluxDB 3 Explorer focused on reducing manual work and putting more control directly in their hands as they scale. Telegraf Enterprise reached general availability, giving teams a centralized way to manage, monitor, and support tens of thousands of Telegraf agents.
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Kentik

What the World Cup Looks Like in Internet Traffic

Jul 1, 2026 By Doug Madory In Kentik
The World Cup may be the most-watched event in media history — so what does it look like from inside the network? We dug into ISP traffic data to reveal how Fox Sports peaks during US games, why second halves usually win, and how traffic flows shift for entire nations like Brazil and Iran when their team takes the field.
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datadog

How Datadog uses AI to build internal software delivery tools and improve system performance

Jul 1, 2026 By Bowen Chen In Datadog
At Datadog, we want our developers to become better at using AI tools with the end goal of building quality software, faster, that generates real value. This includes not only the products and features that our customers use, but also the internal tools that help keep our workflows running smoothly behind the scenes.
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datadog

Accelerate investigations with AI in Datadog Incident Response

Jul 1, 2026 By Curtis Maher In Datadog
Engineering teams spend much of their incident response time investigating the problem and coordinating the response. Both tasks become harder when telemetry data lives in one place, deployment history is stored in another, and conversations unfold across chat channels and incident bridges. Responders often spend the first part of an incident rebuilding context before they can begin testing hypotheses and working toward resolution.
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