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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.