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Loki Community Call LIVE from GrafanaCON 2026

Apr 22, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Loki Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening in the Loki ecosystem, alongside special guests Poyzan Taneli, Ben Clive, and Trevor Whitney. In this session: We take a look back over the last year in Loki Explore the brand new “Thor” architecture Dive into what’s coming next for logging at scale From a completely new columnar storage format and Kafka-based ingestion, to a redesigned query engine and improved support for high-cardinality data—Loki is evolving to meet the demands of modern logging.
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Alloy, OpenTelemetry & Instrumentation Community Call LIVE from GrafanaCON 2026

Apr 22, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Join us live from GrafanaCON 2026 for the Alloy, OpenTelemetry & Instrumentation Community Call! We’re kicking things off with a look at everything happening across Alloy and the OpenTelemetry ecosystem, alongside special guests Ted Young, Mischa Thompson, and Liudmila Molkova. In this session: We take a look back at Alloy’s rapid growth and adoption Explore the introduction of the new OpenTelemetry Engine Dive into fleet management, instrumentation, and onboarding at scale.
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Top 13 Prometheus Alternatives in 2026

Apr 22, 2026 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus
Prometheus is a widely adopted open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, popular among DevOps and SRE teams for its robust metrics collection and powerful query language (PromQL). It is fast, reliable, and purpose-built for modern, cloud-native environments. However, Prometheus may not suit all teams or projects. In 2025, several alternatives offer different strengths that might better match your specific monitoring needs.
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manageengine

Forget user experience, the age of user extraction is here

Apr 21, 2026 By Eric Roshaan In ManageEngine
Does it ever feel like the days of simple, user- and pocket-friendly digital services are now a bygone era? Is everything just a reminder of how things used to be better? Dramatic language and rose-tinted glasses aside, you would be naive not to notice that service providers are becoming increasingly predatory, especially when it comes to monetization. Ads are everywhere, privacy policies are questionable at best, and costs keep rising.
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statusgator

New: More control with Recovery Notices

Apr 21, 2026 By Valeria Kurolapova In StatusGator
We’ve added a new notification option to give you more control over how and when you get alerted: Recovery Notices. Until now, notifications were primarily focused on incidents – letting you know when something goes wrong. But we heard from many of you that not all alerts are equally useful. While some teams want full visibility across the entire lifecycle of an incident, others are mainly concerned with when a service goes down, not when it comes back up.
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Galileo

Moving Beyond SolarWinds: Building a Modern Observability Strategy

Apr 21, 2026 By Andy Wojnarek In Galileo
For years, platforms like SolarWinds have been a standard in IT environments. They helped teams answer a fundamental question: are systems up or down? That approach worked well when environments were more contained and predictable. The challenge is that most environments no longer operate that way. Hybrid infrastructure, cloud services, and tightly interconnected applications have changed what “visibility” needs to mean.
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From Microsoft SCOM to Dashboards

Apr 21, 2026 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) remains one of the most capable on-premises monitoring platforms for Microsoft environments. However, as IT operations evolve toward real-time observability and self-service insights, traditional SCOM reporting and consoles can feel restrictive. This whitepaper explores practical ways to extend and modernize your SCOM visualizations using today's leading dashboarding technologies - including SquaredUp, Grafana, Power BI, and Azure Workbooks.
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Introducing Pyroscope 2.0: faster, more cost-effective continuous profiling at scale

Apr 21, 2026 By Christian Simon In Grafana
Continuous profiling is becoming a standard part of the observability stack, and for good reason. It's the only signal that tells you why your code is slow or expensive, not just that it is. Metrics tell you CPU usage is high. Logs tell you a request was slow. Traces tell you which service is the bottleneck. But only a profile tells you which function, on which line, is burning the cycles. As systems grow more complex, that level of visibility becomes essential.
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Grafana Assistant everywhere: Customize and connect to the AI agent to fit your specific needs

Apr 21, 2026 By Maurice Rochau In Grafana
The ways you and your teams build and observe your systems are changing. It’s no longer just engineers looking at dashboards, or writing queries or config files. More often, it’s an agent interacting with the data, too, helping write code, run applications, investigate incidents, rightsize deployments, and more.
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