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Top Tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at why interpretation matters when messages, meetings, and notifications never seem to stop. We live in a world where messages travel faster than meaning. Emails are sent in seconds, chats stack up by the hour, and meetings are recorded, transcribed, and summarized before we’ve had time to process what was actually said.

IT Operations Leaders, Platform Engineering Managers, SRE Team Leads, and DevOps Directors managing complex, multi-tool observability environments who are struggling with alert overload and extended incident resolution times.

Digital businesses today generate a flood of telemetry—metrics, logs, traces, and events—at a scale that grows exponentially with every new application, cloud service, and user interaction. In one recent IDC survey, every organization reported sharing observability data across teams, yet nearly half said poor collaboration still prevents them from identifying performance problems.

The Software Compliance module in InvGate Asset Management gives you a clear view of your software compliance status against your organization’s contracts. From a single place, you can quickly see whether you’re using more licenses than you purchased, which software is underutilized, and when contracts are expiring, helping you stay ahead of audit risks and make decisions based on accurate data. Beyond compliance, the module also focuses on financial impact.

The Software Metering feature in InvGate Asset Management lets you monitor how applications are actually used across the different devices in your IT ecosystem. The benefits are clear. At an organizational level, Software Metering helps reduce costs, strengthen compliance, and optimize software investments across the entire company. At an operational level, it gives IT teams the clarity they need to manage applications more efficiently and plan future purchases with confidence.

Harness AI is starting 2026 by doubling down on what it does best: applying intelligent automation to the hardest “after code” problems, incidents, security, and test setup, with three new AI-powered capabilities. These updates continue the same theme as December: move faster, keep control, and let AI handle more of the tedious, error-prone work in your delivery and security pipelines. ‍

For years, Application Management/Maintenance Services (AMS) have been the go-to solution for IT leaders trying to keep their business applications stable and running. The AMS pitch was simple: Hand over your apps to us, and we’ll manage and maintain them for you! And for a long time, that model has delivered promising results. It allows internal teams to focus on innovation while service providers handle the operational heavy lifting.

Tempo 2.10 has arrived, delivering TraceQL enhancements, improved cardinality management for the metrics-generator, vParquet5, and more. You can continue reading and check out the video below to learn more about these and other new features. The Tempo 2.10 release notes and changelog provide more in-depth details and include all of the changes that came with this release.

In PostgreSQL, the EXPLAIN ANALYZE statement gives you a detailed report of what actually happens when you execute a query. This kind of information is important for troubleshooting slow queries, but using EXPLAIN ANALYZE to collect this data is often challenging in a production environment. Datadog Database Monitoring now supports automatic collection of EXPLAIN ANALYZE plans for PostgreSQL, enabling you to easily capture execution details that help you troubleshoot slow queries.