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RISE with SAP Monitoring: Overcoming the 'Black Box' Challenge of monitoring Cloud ERP

Organizations transitioning from traditional on-premises SAP systems to Cloud ERP (formerly known as "RISE" and "GROW") have a new set of monitoring challenges. Unlike the familiar on-prem landscape, where IT teams enjoyed full visibility and control, cloud environments can feel like a "black box," with limited direct access to the underlying infrastructure and reliance on service tickets to understand system status.

Web Performance Metrics: Why INP Is Your Most Practical UX Performance KPI

Every developer has seen this scene: a user clicks a button, nothing happens, they click again—still nothing—and by the third frustrated tap, three overlapping modals explode onto the screen. The page wasn’t slow to load. It was slow to respond. This highlights the importance of perceived performance—how fast and responsive a website feels to users—which can shape user satisfaction regardless of actual load times.

Auvik's 2026 IT & Network Management Predictions

As IT environments become more distributed, automated, and AI-driven, 2026 will represent a major inflection point for how organizations manage networks, security, and operational resilience. From shadow AI and governance to AI-driven automation and economic uncertainty, Auvik’s executive leadership team shares their predictions on what’s coming, and what IT leaders and MSPs should be preparing for now.

The Future of Dashboards: Git Sync, SQL Expressions, and Dynamic Layouts | Big Tent S3E5

In this episode of Grafana’s Big Tent, Grafana founder Torkel Ödegaard joins Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie for a wide-ranging conversation about how Grafana began, why design and usability mattered from day one, and how the project evolved into a platform used by tens of millions — from developers to power stations and even space missions.

Grafana 12, from the founder's perspective: design, scale, and the next chapter

Sometimes the most interesting engineering stories don’t start with a roadmap or a release plan—they start with personal taste. A preference for good design. A frustration with clunky tools. A desire to see everything in one place.

Building with the InfluxDB 3 MCP Server & Claude

InfluxDB 3 Model Context Protocol (MCP) server lets you manage and query InfluxDB 3 (Core, Enterprise, Dedicated, Serverless, Clustered) using natural language through popular LLM tools like Claude Desktop, ChatGPT Desktop, and other MCP-compatible agents. The setup is straightforward. In this article, we will focus on setting up InfluxDB 3 Enterprise using Docker with Claude Desktop.

Context engineering: The missing layer for trusted AI in financial services

Financial services AI demands more than models and prompts. Context engineering provides real-time, governed, and explainable intelligence with Elastic serving as the foundational context layer. Artificial intelligence in financial services is no longer constrained by model capability. The real bottleneck is context.