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A queue quietly fills up overnight. Memory hits the configured watermark and RabbitMQ blocks all publishers. Your entire message pipeline freezes, and you discover the problem when users start complaining. This scenario repeats across thousands of production systems because teams don't monitor RabbitMQ properly. The broker exposes comprehensive metrics, but most engineers don't know which ones predict failures or how to track them.

In today’s digital landscape, application performance isn’t just about monitoring several key apps and “keeping the lights on,” it’s about understanding the full breadth of your interconnected business services and ensuring you’re delivering seamless, reliable experiences to customers and teams alike. But as applications grow increasingly distributed across cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, monitoring them holistically can become a serious challenge.

For platform engineers managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, maintaining policy consistency is a constant struggle. Manually applying security rules across a growing fleet of clusters is inefficient and error-prone. This approach creates significant risks: As your environment scales, this operational burden becomes unsustainable. Each out-of-sync policy represents a potential security gap, increasing the cluster’s attack surface.

As announced in our latest VictoriaMetrics Cloud Product updates in Q3 2025, we have been working to substantially improve our public tiers, and we wanted to dedicate some time to explain these changes and showcase what users can expect moving forward.

IDC predicts agentic AI will command over 26% of global IT spend, hitting $1.3 trillion in 2029. How do IT Ops teams prepare for the reality of agentic systems being embedded across workflows, interfaces, and enterprise platforms? We went straight to the source—IT Ops leaders—to learn how they’re tackling agentic AI.

A practical guide to streamlining service delivery through workflow automation.

Microsoft is retiring Office 365 connectors, but there is now a new and easier way to send Redgate Monitor alert notifications to Teams, ready-formatted. Microsoft is retiring Microsoft 365 (Office 365) connectors on 31 March 2026. After that date, any Redgate Monitor alert notifications configured through the old connector method will stop appearing in Teams. From Redgate Monitor 14.1.0, there’s now a new and much simpler way to do it.

Editor’s note: This blog originally published in May 2025 when Azure Monitor dashboards with Grafana became available in public preview. It was updated in November 2025 to reflect general availability. The Grafanaverse just got a little bit bigger.

Our logs can tell us so much about the state of our systems, but they can also be a bit overwhelming. Yes, Grafana Loki—and, by extension, Grafana Cloud Logs, which is powered by Loki—reimagined the way log aggregation systems could meet modern engineering demands, but logs, by their very nature, are still voluminous.

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.