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Marketing Connections has published the Next-Gen Government IT: AI and Observability Insights Report in partnership with SolarWinds. The survey targeted 200 public sector IT decision-makers and influencers in the US and 100 of their counterparts in the UK. Here are five things we learned.

Alert fatigue is a pervasive challenge in modern IT environments. When teams are inundated with false positives or low-priority notifications, it’s easy to lose sight of real issues. To kick off our blog series on the 5 most common obstacles to observability in 2025, let’s discuss the headache of alert fatigue and how insights from the natural world can offer answers.

Kubernetes has revolutionized cloud-native applications, but networking remains a crucial aspect of ensuring scalability, security, and performance. Default networking approaches, such as iptables-based packet filtering, often introduce performance bottlenecks due to inefficient packet processing and complex rule evaluations. This is where Calico eBPF comes into play, offering a powerful alternative that enhances networking efficiency and security at scale.

Cost-efficient, agile, and innovative. Cloud migration is often connected to these words. But beyond these familiar terms lies a transformative opportunity for your business. For IT leaders, the promise goes beyond these initial benefits. A well-executed migration can streamline operations, optimize resource allocation, and unlock new avenues for digital transformation.

When people hear the phrase “process automation in IT,” they first think of the purely technological benefits. These include automated incident resolution, meaningfully improved process orchestration, reduced ticket volumes, and more. The factor that should be just as top-of-mind, though, is something that’s vital to both your automation program’s longevity and your organization’s overall success: automation ROI.

Monitoring has been part of our lives for centuries. We watch ourselves, our environment, and our habits to gain insights and make better decisions. Even the much-dreaded annual health check we line up for each year is just another facet of this age-old process. The goal is simple: spot small red flags now, before they balloon into bigger health complications later. It’s the same principle that has guided us for generations—keeping tabs, so we can correct course before trouble takes hold.

For many, Cloudflare provides an essential suite of network security tools that their organization integrates with deeply. One such tool is "Cloudflare Tunnel" - a secure way to connect resources to Cloudflare without a publicly routable IP address. When deploying sensitive applications to Cycle, Cloudflare Tunnel can be leveraged to ensure all traffic is routed through Cloudflare before reaching your environment's load balancer. This extra layer of security provides quite a few benefits.

It’s getting increasingly difficult to both be a conscious human being with an internet connection and to be unaware of AI. From Jamie Dimon’s bullish stance to Elon Musk’s dire predictions to the art world’s raging debate (and uncanny experiments) over whether it can ever be used ethically, AI has an iron grip on our collective imagination, and businesses are scrambling to outspend each other on the way to making it drive sustainable profit.

As modern applications grow more complex, debugging becomes increasingly challenging. Applications consist of multiple parts which can generate enormous amounts of log data, making debugging difficult. SolarWinds Loggly can help store, manage, and sift through this data. To demonstrate, we’ll set up an application built on.NET Core 9.0 and MongoDB; then, we’ll walk through how to export its logs to Loggly.

To unlock the power of observability and advanced analytics of AIOps, teams need to collect exceptional monitoring data, establish connections and correlations between the data, and understand context with the help of robust and current topological maps. Because modern networks often span on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, monitoring their performance and troubleshooting issues can be difficult. These complex infrastructures often lead to observability gaps for network teams.