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Getting started with Cloudflare dashboards

Cloudflare is a widely adopted web performance and security platform, best known for its CDN, DDoS protection, and DNS services. While it provides rich telemetry and real-time analytics, the sheer volume and complexity of the data can make it hard to identify key trends or issues at a glance. This is where a solution like SquaredUp (or another dashboarding tool) comes in.

Harnessing Network Observability to Speed the Telco-to-Techco Transition

For telecommunications firms (telcos), the race is on. If these organizations are to rise to meet their top challenges and growth objectives, transformation is a must. Those who make this move most rapidly will be best positioned for sustained success. Today, telcos face several significant challenges, which are creating fundamental disruption: Telcos need to transform to contend with these shifts.

The Visibility vs Cost Trap: A Dangerous Tradeoff

“You can’t investigate what you don’t have”. Every analyst knows the pain of missing context. You’re in the middle of a high-stakes investigation, but the logs you need are gone, archived weeks ago due to retention limits. Or worse, they were never collected in the first place to keep costs under control. This is the Visibility vs. Cost trap, and it puts analysts at a disadvantage every day.

OpManager earns triple recognition in 2025

We’re pleased to share that ManageEngine OpManager has earned recognition across three critical areas of IT operations, achieving triple crown status in IT infrastructure management. OpManager has been featured in GetApp’s Category Leaders, Software Advice’s Front Runners, and Capterra’s Shortlist, in addition to being named in the Gartner Market Guide for IT Infrastructure Monitoring (ITIM).

Real User Monitoring (RUM) vs. Synthetic Monitoring: Understanding Best Practices

For modern engineering and DevOps teams, user experience isn’t a post-deployment concern, it’s a critical operational metric. Monitoring how real users interact with your application is no longer optional, especially in high-traffic, dynamic, or global environments. This is where real user monitoring (RUM) proves indispensable. But RUM isn’t the only approach.

AI-Augmented Control Plane: Scaling IT Operations with Intelligent Automation

How do you enable a team of 100 engineers to effectively support 300+ critical applications across five hosting platforms? At Thomson Reuters, we turned to AI - not as a buzzword, but as a genuine force multiplier. Experience our journey of transforming traditional IT operations into an AI-augmented powerhouse, where Datadog, ServiceNow, and custom AI solutions work in harmony to create a next-generation control plane. We'll share real victories, honest challenges, and practical insights from our mission to build a more intelligent operational framework.

Generating Playwright Tests With AI: Let's Try the New Playwright MCP Server!

In this video, Stefan (Playwright Ambassador) dives into the integration of AI with the Playwright MCP server to automate end-to-end test generation. Learn about MCP, browser automation and how to combine everything to generate Playwright tests. We'll explore AI capabilities and limits and discuss best practices for generating accurate and reliable Playwright tests. If you're curious about leveraging AI for end-to-end testing with Playwright, this video is for you!

Brand-Driven Observability: Crafting Monitoring That Reflects Your Product Identity

In the fast-paced world of modern IT operations, observability has become a crucial pillar in ensuring the health, reliability, and performance of complex systems. As organizations scale their infrastructures and embrace distributed architectures, monitoring systems have evolved beyond simple uptime checks to holistic observability platforms. However, in this technical landscape, one often overlooked element is the role of branding in observability design.
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