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IT Observability in 2026: Lessons From the Past Year

As IT organizations enter 2026, many of the assumptions around monitoring and observability have already been tested. Throughout 2025, infrastructure teams made it clear that visibility alone is not enough. Alerts without context, short data retention, and fragmented tools limited teams’ ability to explain behavior, validate changes, and plan with confidence. This article looks at what emerged from those experiences and how observability expectations continue to shift.

Top tips: RAG isn't the problem, context is. Here are 3 fixes.

Top Tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll be talking about how we can improve our retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) systems using contextual engineering. Prompt engineering has gained a lot of attention in the past year, and it’s finally time to move on to a better experience that transforms the way AI results are provided to us.

Sending Custom Application Metrics to MetricFire's Hosted Graphite

In this article, we’ll show how easy it is to send custom application metrics directly to MetricFire's public carbon endpoint. We’ll build a small Flask application, emit a handful of practical metrics, and generate local traffic to demonstrate how quickly meaningful data can flow from your code to your dashboards.

SSH Check Overview

In this video, learn how to set up and configure SSH checks using Uptime.com. We discuss the frequency options, the importance of Secure Shell (SSH) for secure data communication, and step-by-step instructions for creating a new SSH check in your account. Discover how to set check intervals, configure alert contacts, specify monitoring locations, and ensure your probe servers are whitelisted. Perfect for ensuring your server's remote login capabilities are continuously monitored and secure.

How to Integrate Grafana with Home Assistant

This post covers how to get started with Home Assistant and Grafana, including setting up InfluxDB and Grafana with Docker, configuring InfluxDB to receive data from Home Assistant, and creating a Grafana dashboard to visualize your data. It provides a comprehensive guide for real-time monitoring and analysis of Home Assistant data. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to integrate Grafana with Home Assistant using InfluxDB.

Context is King: Why Network AI Needs Domain Knowledge to Work

Generic AI fails in network operations because it lacks the “institutional knowledge” of your specific environment and business priorities. Learn how Kentik’s Custom Network Context encodes your unique operational reality into AI Advisor, turning a generic chatbot into a context-aware teammate.