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Introducing Skylar Advisor: You Need an Advisor, Not an AI Assistant

Skylar Advisor is a next-generation experience powered by Skylar AI, built to help IT teams focus on what matters right now. In this video, ScienceLogic Chief Product Officer Michael Nappi shares how Skylar Advisor proactively curates and summarizes key signals across monitoring tools, logs, and streaming telemetry into clear advisories your team can act on in seconds.

What Companies Get Wrong About Autonomous IT, And What Actually Moves Them Forward

Many organizations approach Autonomous IT with the assumption that adding more tools, more data, or more automation will eventually produce self-governing operations. This assumption creates the illusion of progress. Complexity does not resolve itself when new systems are layered on top of existing ones. In most environments, each new tool adds another interpretation of the truth, which compounds the cognitive load on teams and forces more reconciliation, not less.

Exploring Splunk Alternatives [2026]: Deep Dive into Log Analysis

Splunk isn't bad software. It's genuinely powerful. But in 2026, a lot of engineering teams are asking a fair question: are we getting $300K worth of value out of this? More often than not, the answer is no. We went through 15 alternatives - read the docs, tested where we could, and talked to engineers who made the switch. This is what we found.
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How to improve your Crash Free Users score in minutes

If you're reading this blog, you likely already know the importance of quality software. But with the overwhelming number of metrics that can be monitored and improved, development teams are struggling with what metrics they should prioritize to have the most significant impact. The Crash Free Users score in Raygun is a perfect place for development teams who care about software quality to focus their efforts. It tells you what percentage of users didn't encounter a crash or error while using your software and is an ideal north star to gauge the overall quality of your software.

Detecting incidents without components

StatusGator monitors services and their individual components, so you can stay informed about the systems you rely on – and filter down to only the components you care about. Most status pages do a good job of tagging incidents to the affected components. But sometimes providers publish incident updates without marking any components as impacted, even when the incident clearly affects something real.

January 2026: IsDown Users Saved 9.2 Hours with Early Outage Detection

In January 2026, IsDown's early detection system gave users a cumulative advantage of 9.2 hours across 34 incidents — that's over half a business day of advance warning before vendors officially acknowledged their outages. The largest single detection advantage? A massive 2.2 hours for a SendGrid email delivery issue that left customers in the dark while their emails failed to reach Microsoft inboxes.

How an AI assistant and MCP server deliver real-time cloud cost insights

Cloud costs don’t grow quietly. They spike, drift, and surprise teams at the worst possible moments, usually when someone finally opens a dashboard. While cloud cost management tools are powerful, getting quick answers often still means navigating multiple views, applying filters, exporting reports, and looping in the right people. But what if cloud cost analysis worked more like a conversation?

What is agentic AI? (explained in 60 seconds)

Agentic AI is the next evolution of artificial intelligence. Unlike traditional AI, it can act autonomously and make decisions on its own. Here’s what that actually means, without the hype. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.