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Set up the NVIDIA DCGM Exporter with Docker or Helm, pick the right DCGM metrics, enable profiling counters, map GPUs to Kubernetes pods, and add alerts. Sejal Pandey works on content and growth at Last9, writing about observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

⁠Operating across 110 countries, Agilent Technologies supports scientists working in life science research, patient diagnostics and testing that helps ensure the safety of water, food and pharmaceuticals. Keeping the technology behind that work running effectively helps employees stay focused on the science and services that contribute to Agilent’s mission to advance quality of life.

Your Internet circuit is up. The firewall shows the WAN link as connected, your ISP's status page is green, and a speed test comes back at full provisioned bandwidth. Meanwhile, Teams calls at one branch break up for ten minutes every afternoon, and every user at that site sees Salesforce slow to a crawl at the same moment. Then everything recovers before anyone can capture it.

What does your organization owe a customer when a priority ticket misses its resolution target by forty minutes? For most service providers and internal service desks, the answer stays unclear until the customer asks for a credit or a manager asks why the monthly SLA report shows a miss. By then, the facts that decide the outcome, such as when the clock started, whether it paused and who was told, are scattered across tickets, emails and chat threads.

How much of your SOX audit season goes into rebuilding proof of work that was already done? Access was approved, the change went through review, the backup ran, yet the evidence lives in email threads, chat messages and a spreadsheet someone updated last quarter. When an auditor asks for a complete list of production changes, IT staff have to pull records from several places against a deadline.

VirtualMetric DataStream now includes a PowerShell console in the browser, more than a dozen new integrations, and a new way to collect data from servers and virtualization hosts, where teams choose exactly what they collect. This update also brings guided learning for new users, built-in monitoring rules, and new controls for organizations managing branding and sign-in. Here’s what’s new.

You get a Slack message from the VP of Sales: They have asked an AI agent connected to Snowflake for the past quarter’s revenue and the numbers look wrong. First, you verify the agent’s query and, when that looks fine, check the pipelines that populate the underlying table. All jobs completed, the data is recently refreshed. Then it’s time to check the logs for errors. Nothing.

What happens when a software engineer who has put their entire identity into being the resident expert of an obscure technology or language with ten years of experience and who knows the codebase like the back of their hand now has to compete with AI? Psychologically speaking, according to Dr. Cat Hicks, author of The Psychology of Software Teams and founder of Catharsis, that's called identity threat, and it's a surefire way to feel unsafe. We were honored Dr.