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Slow Zoom calls, dropped VPN connections, and lagging applications sound familiar? These common network frustrations often stem from underlying performance issues that could be diagnosed and resolved with the right data. For IT professionals, raw network metrics alone aren’t enough. To truly optimize performance, you need network statistics: aggregated, analyzed, and interpreted insights that turn numbers into actionable decisions.

In today’s cloud-native world, third-party APIs are everywhere. Payments, notifications, search, AI, analytics as modern applications are built on a web of external services. But what happens when one of those APIs slows down, starts throwing errors, or gets rate-limited? Suddenly, your users are facing issues, and you’re stuck asking.

We just released a fresh new view of the sidebar in the Checkly app. This decision was made after some extensive user research—and this is the story of how we got to the final solution.

As organizations increasingly deploy AI solutions, I am seeing more and more that the strategic placement of data—particularly at the edge—is becoming paramount to unlocking AI’s full potential. This is a viewed shared by our partners at Riverbed, as highlighted in a recent white paper, Accelerating AI and Data Movement at the Edge. Edge computing enables businesses to perform complex operations at production sites by positioning compute resources nearer to users and operations.

With more enterprises adopting SD-WAN technology, SD-WAN vendor support can be a key to success. We break down the licensing of eight major SD-WAN vendors. Whichever SD-WAN vendor you use, the way you deploy is essential to success.

We’re excited to share that SCIM provisioning is available in public preview for Grafana Enterprise and Grafana Cloud Advanced! This powerful feature, introduced last week at GrafanaCON 2025 as part of the Grafana 12 release, transforms how organizations manage users and teams in Grafana, bringing automated user lifecycle management and enhanced security to your observability platform.

One of our biggest goals at Grafana Labs is to help you unify and derive value from your data, regardless of where that data lives. As a result, we’re fully committed to making Grafana an open, composable, and extensible observability platform. Last week at GrafanaCON 2025, where we celebrated the launch of Grafana 12, we highlighted one of the key ways we deliver on this promise of openness and extensibility: our broad ecosystem of Grafana data sources.

Internet Information Services, commonly referred to as IIS, is Microsoft's web server software. It is built to host websites, applications, and services for Windows systems. If you are considering IIS for hosting your website or applications, let us take you through the basics of IIS, its benefits over the other options available, and the common pitfalls organizations face when they opt for IIS. IIS has evolved a lot since its GA release in 1995.

Observability isn’t about collecting more telemetry — it’s about making that telemetry data meaningful. Contextual observability transforms raw telemetry into actionable insights by enriching it with consistent tagging and metadata. Without context, telemetry data remains fragmented, troubleshooting slows, and aligning with business priorities is nearly impossible.

‘Without the internet, Digital Experiences do not exist,’ begins Increase Revenue and Improve Customer Experience with Internet Performance Monitoring, a study commissioned by Catchpoint to quantify the financial damage from internet outages. At first glance, that might seem painfully obvious—like pointing out that water is wet. But pause for a moment and consider: the digital experience today isn't just an aspect of business; it is the business. Suddenly, the stakes feel very different.