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obkio

How to Perform Ping Tests: Different Tools and Techniques

Oct 6, 2025 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
If you’re a remote worker struggling with video calls, or a gamer noticing lag, a quick Internet ping test using an online ping tester can give you a simple yes/no answer: Is my connection alive, and how fast does it respond?. But if you’re a network admin or IT professional, that’s just scratching the surface. Business networks are more complex beasts.
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splunk

LLM Observability Explained: Prevent Hallucinations, Manage Drift, Control Costs

Oct 6, 2025 By Chrissy Kidd In Splunk
Large Language Models (LLMs) are transforming how businesses interact with users, automate workflows, and deliver insights in real time. But as powerful as these models are, running them at scale comes with unique challenges, from hallucinations and latency spikes to cost overruns and user trust issues.
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squared up

How to automate sending SquaredUp dashboards to Slack with the Notification API

Oct 6, 2025 By Squared Up In Squared Up
SquaredUp's existing notifications fire when monitors change state. With Notification API, you control the trigger. Send dashboards on a schedule, before meetings, or on-demand through chat commands. In this step-by-step guide, you’ll learn how to automate sending SquaredUp dashboards to Slack. I’ll use Power Automate as the example, but the same approach works with other automation tools such as Zapier, Make, n8n, or even a custom script, as long as it can send an HTTP request.
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grafana

The observability maturity curve: How IT leaders are shifting from tools to outcomes

Oct 6, 2025 By Dave Russell In Grafana
Observability has come a long way from its origins in monitoring logs and metrics. Today, it sits on a maturity curve: Organizations move from fragmented tool stacks to unified platforms to proactive engineering practices that tie reliability to business outcomes. To better understand where IT leaders are on this curve, Grafana Labs surveyed 150 decision-makers across industries in advance of ObservabilityCON 2025.
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circleci

Automated RAG pipeline evaluation and benchmarking with RAGAS

Oct 6, 2025 By Muhammad Arham In CircleCI
Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines have become an integral part of how Large Language Models (LLMs) access information beyond their training cutoff. These pipelines enable LLMs to deliver current, accurate, and grounded responses. By fetching relevant external documents, RAG mitigates common LLM challenges like factual inaccuracies and hallucinations. However, this methodology introduces a new complexity: evaluating RAG pipeline performance is particularly challenging.
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xMatters

Signal Enrichment: Turning Noisy Alerts into Actionable Intelligence

Oct 6, 2025 By Jon Skog In xMatters
This is the fourth post in our series on the future of incident management, which builds upon The Future of Incident Management: Your Blueprint for Operational Excellence, How Native Process Automation and Auto-Remediation Drive Operational Excellence, and Service Intelligence is the Future of Proactive Incident Management.
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uptrends

Observability-as-Code: Bring synthetic monitoring into your pipeline

Oct 6, 2025 By Uptrends In Uptrends
Your team just deployed to production. The infrastructure spun up in 90 seconds, but recreating your monitoring? That’ll take hours. It’s added late in the process, managed through dashboards, and prone to inconsistency. Short-term, this slows delivery and creates visibility gaps that surface only during incidents. Long-term, it leaves a business-critical capability out of your observability pipeline.
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Bridging the Language Gap: AI Tools That Humanize Technical Content for Global Teams

Bridging the Language Gap: AI Tools That Humanize Technical Content for Global Teams

Oct 6, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Working on a global team can be exciting. You get to collaborate with people from different cultures, time zones, and perspectives. But it also comes with challenges-especially when technical content doesn't translate well across languages. A single unclear instruction in a manual or a misinterpreted email can lead to delays, extra meetings, or even costly mistakes.
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How I Made N8N Reliable With VPS Hosting in Europe

How I Made N8N Reliable With VPS Hosting in Europe

Oct 6, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
I've hosted n8n pretty much everywhere. Render, Railway, DigitalOcean droplets, even a self-inflicted Docker swarm that still haunts my sleep. Every time, something broke in a way that made me question my career choices. Cron jobs stopped firing, memory usage climbed like a fever, and webhooks randomly died at 3 a.m. Eventually I gave up and moved everything to a plain VPS. That's when things stopped being... stupid. If you're thinking about doing the same, get an n8n VPS hosting plan and save yourself the pain.
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