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Modern operations happen in Slack, where teams spend their days collaborating, troubleshooting, and resolving incidents. And while many incident management tools offer Slack-friendly experiences, they lack end-to-end capabilities that teams need. During critical moments, other tools may require users to switch between Slack and their own interfaces, creating friction.

This blog is based on our research done as part of our white paper, The Cost of Cloud 2025 - India Edition. Research was conducted with over 600 Indian tech professionals to create a comprehensive analysis of the Indian cloud market.

The age of dashboards is ending, as observability has only created more noise for network teams to sift through. Kentik SVP of Product, Mav Turner, lays out why true network intelligence requires a clean, contextual data foundation to finally create a network that thinks.

Security teams face a constant trade-off between detection coverage and alert fatigue. Broad, rule-based detection approaches surface every possible indicator of compromise (IoC) but generate unmanageable alert volumes. Narrow, tightly scoped rules reduce noise but risk missing critical signals. And while individual indicators of compromise can highlight suspicious behavior, they often lack the surrounding context needed to tell a complete story of how an attack unfolded.

In October’s episode of This Month in Datadog, Jeremy shows how you can use AI to query with natural language in DDSQL Editor, ensure teams stay continually updated during outages, mitigate the impact of flaky tests, and ingest OpenTelemetry Protocol (OTLP) metrics from serverless and third-party SaaS environments.

A Building Management System (BMS) is commonly used in data centers to monitor and control the facility’s mechanical, electrical, and environmental systems. With a BMS in place, it’s reasonable to ask: do you still need Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) software? The short answer is yes—DCIM and BMS serve occasionally overlapping but fundamentally different purposes.

We’re expanding the Open 360 AI experience to more users with a modernized navigation and full access to Grafana and OSD dashboards. Your existing dashboards, alerts, bookmarks, and integrations remain unchanged, while new AI-powered capabilities provide deeper explanations and actionable insights. Existing customers can request early access through their account team.

Recommendation: Focus your next AI initiative on one high-impact workflow. Measure, iterate, and scale. Agentic AI has quickly become the next frontier of enterprise automation. Instead of static AI tools that wait for human prompts, agents act on behalf of users by autonomously reasoning, sequencing steps, and taking action within defined guardrails.

As Chief Legal Officer, I’ve personally navigated the complex, ever-shifting landscape where privacy compliance meets rapidly evolving technologies. Whether it’s the sweeping reach of a law protecting personal data in the EU, the specific demands of a law giving California residents more control over their personal information, or the critical protections of a law safeguarding sensitive patient health information in the U.S., one challenge remains.

Ubuntu images on Microsoft Azure have recently started shipping with the open source package azure-vm-utils included by default. Azure VM utils is a package that provides essential utilities and udev rules to optimize the Linux experience on Azure. This change results in more reliable disks, smoother networking on accelerated setups, and fewer tweaks to get things running. Here’s what you need to know.