IT Monitoring News | January '26 Edition
Latest updates, insights, events, and more regarding Microsoft SCOM, and Azure Monitor.
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Reality Bytes: Waymo on the Tracks (2026 Predictions)
The Matrix hits different.. when you're in the Matrix. The team rings in 2026 by reflecting on past predictions—and charting what’s next. From eerily accurate calls on AI consolidation to the unsettling prescience of The Matrix, the conversation looks ahead to a pivotal shift: from conversational AI to operational “do-bots,” the challenge of measuring real enterprise value, and the growing risks of over-automation.
Getting the Right Signals: Mobile Observability with Embrace and SquaredUp
More than half of all connections to web services now originate from mobile devices. Mobile apps are no longer peripheral - they are central to how businesses engage customers, deliver services, and generate revenue. Despite this shift, many organizations still rely on observability tools that are fundamentally server-centric. These platforms are adept at monitoring backend health, but they often fail to capture what’s happening at the edge - on the mobile device itself.
IT Trends and Predictions for 2026 - SolarWinds TechPod 105
SolarWinds TechPod returns with its annual IT trends and predictions episode — and 2026 is all about Agentic AI. In this episode of SolarWinds TechPod, hosts Sean Sebring and Chrystal Taylor are joined by Sascha Giese (SolarWinds) and Lauren Okruch (SolarWinds Product Marketing) to break down how AI, ITSM, automation, governance, and resilience will shape IT operations in 2026.
How to debug a Next.js production bug with Logs and Sentry
Stack traces tell you what broke. They rarely tell you why. In this video, Serge walks through a real Next.js production bug that only affected Firefox and Safari. The error showed up clearly in Sentry, but the stack trace alone wasn’t enough to explain what was going wrong. The missing piece turned out to be logs. You’ll see how adding logs to a Next.js API route exposed unexpected request data, how those logs connected back to traces, and how that context made the root cause obvious and easy to fix.
Reduce Wasted Spend with Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling
Balancing performance and cost in Kubernetes doesn’t have to be a tradeoff. In this short demo, you’ll see how Datadog helps teams rightsize workloads, reduce over-provisioning, and measure real cost savings using Kubernetes autoscaling.
OpenTelemetry Overview: Unifying Traces, Metrics, and Logs
The IT landscape has evolved rapidly, transitioning from monolithic applications to complex, distributed system architectures comprising microservices that run on platforms like Kubernetes. With this added complexity, simply checking if a server is running is no longer sufficient. As IT professionals, we need insight into what’s really happening inside these systems. That’s where observability comes in.
EventSentry Training [08-12]: Digitally Signing Event Logs
How to digitally sign event logs and Syslog data with EventSentry.
EventSentry Training [05-05]: HTTP Receiver (HEC) / Network Services
How to setup EventSentry to collect (receive) logs in JSON format from remove devices via the HTTPS protocol (aka HEC).
EventSentry v6.0: New Features Overview
Introduction video showcasing the main new features in EventSentry v6.0, including native Azure log support, HEC, digital log signing, oauth support, location filtering, sigma and more.