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ilert

On-call compensation for IT engineers in 2025

Jun 30, 2025 By Daniel Weiß In iLert
Imagine it’s 2 AM and a critical system flatlines without warning. A bleary-eyed on-call engineer scrambles to restore service, shielding customers from a major outage that could torpedo your next Service Level Objective (SLO) review. Yet when daylight returns, debates over fair on-call compensation start all over again: What’s “just” pay for sleepless nights, unpredictable pings, and rapid-fire incident responses?
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grafana

Going beyond AI chat response: How we're building an agentic system to drive Grafana

Jun 30, 2025 By Yasir Ekinci In Grafana
As we look at the role AI can play in Grafana going forward, we want to move beyond the simple chat responses that dominate the world of LLMs today and into agentic systems—AI that can understand, reason, and act on your behalf. The ultimate goal is to make it easy to get things done in Grafana using natural language—whether you’re a seasoned SRE or a new developer. And in the AI world, we call this moving from chat completion to task completion.
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upsun

Enterprise Drupal: why hosting choice impacts your success

Jun 30, 2025 By Shawna Spoor In Upsun
Deploying a large-scale Drupal application involves numerous decisions, and one of the most significant is where to host it. Should you keep everything on-premises, use a managed hosting provider, or opt for a modern PaaS like Upsun? Each approach has trade-offs. In this article, we’ll dive into the real-world technical pitfalls of on-premises and managed hosting, and then explore how Upsun addresses those challenges in an enterprise Drupal context.
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whatsup gold

Proactive Network Protection with Progress WhatsUp Gold 2025: SSL Certificate Monitoring That Helps Prevent Outages

Jun 30, 2025 By Greg Collins In WhatsUp Gold
A single expired SSL certificate can disrupt critical services, erode customer trust, and trigger a series of avoidable issues. That’s why we’re excited to introduce a powerful new feature in Progress WhatsUp Gold 2025.0: Certificate Discovery and Monitoring. This enhancement is more than just a checkbox on a release note; it’s a proactive safeguard designed to help you spot certificate issues before they escalate into business problems.
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squared up

Operational Intelligence - the new horizon of observability

Jun 30, 2025 By John Hayes In Squared Up
Monitoring your systems isn't enough anymore. Neither is “asking questions about your system”. Operational Intelligence embraces observability to proactively deliver business insights, support decision-making, and accelerate innovation. It seems that as the observability market grows and more and more products come into the space, the meaning of the term observability itself becomes more and more nebulous.
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mezmo

Do you Grok It?

Jun 30, 2025 By Mezmo In Mezmo
Most people are probably familiar with the word “grok” from Robert A. Heinlein’s novel A Stranger in a Strange Land, in which it is used to describe a deep, almost mystical understanding of something. ‍ Grok is also the name of a plugin for LogStash that enables you to parse and analyze log data using a syntax similar to regular expressions, but specialized for various log formats and fields.
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Komodor

Kubernetes Cost Optimization Done Right

Jun 30, 2025 By Ilan Adler In Komodor
Kubernetes was never just about cost savings. It was built to be a robust, scalable, and efficient platform for orchestrating containerized applications. And it was meant to abstract infrastructure away so developers could move quickly and go about their business of developing. But as Kubernetes adoption scaled, so did cloud bills. FinOps tools emerged to rein in spending, but most only scratch the surface.
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tidal

NAT Management Made Easy: See Every Translation

Jun 30, 2025 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
Network Address Translation (NAT) is foundational in today’s enterprise and cloud networks, yet NAT documentation often remains an afterthought, managed in spreadsheets or skipped entirely. This creates unnecessary complexity, security blind spots, and wasted IP resources. At LightMesh, we believe IP address management (IPAM) should include intuitive tools to track NAT configurations just as easily as subnets and IP assignments.
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Where to Purchase the Best Vending Machine?

Where to Purchase the Best Vending Machine?

Jun 30, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Vending machines have grown from basic snack dispensers to advanced business tools that provide food, drinks, hygiene items, and even fresh meals. As self-service becomes more popular, entrepreneurs and business owners are looking for machines that are efficient, effective, and profitable. Yet with so many brands available, where do you purchase the best vending machine? The answer becomes obvious when thinking about performance, innovation, and long-term value-and that answer is SweetRobo.
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