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Best practices for end-to-end custom metrics governance

Custom metrics enable you to track what matters to your distinct business and services and correlate it with the rest of your telemetry data. As your organization grows by adding more teams, services, and environments, your volume of custom metrics can grow with it. To ensure critical visibility while maintaining cost efficiency, organizations need an end-to-end approach to custom metrics governance.

Monitor OpenTelemetry-native metrics with Datadog

OpenTelemetry (OTel) is emerging as the industry standard for collecting and transmitting observability data. Datadog supports several ways to send and accept OTel-native data, while also continuing to support its own native telemetry format. To provide a consistent monitoring experience, Datadog now supports using OTel-native metrics alongside Datadog-native metrics across dashboards, queries, and core visualizations in the Datadog platform.

How CloudZero's OpenAI Integration Provides Unprecedented AI Unit Economic Insights

AI spending continues to accelerate. In 2025, experts project that companies will collectively spend about $644 billion on generative AI alone — a whopping 76.4% increase from 2024. This puts it a mere $79 billion behind the public cloud as a whole, signaling the most seismic interval of new infrastructure investment since the dawn of the public cloud.

What Makes a Corporate Headshot Look Professional?

A professional corporate headshot is more than just a nice picture - it's a visual introduction. What sets it apart is attention to detail in lighting, background, posture, and expression. Good lighting flatters the face without harsh shadows. A clean, uncluttered background keeps the focus on you. Posture should be confident but relaxed, while the expression should strike a balance between friendly and professional.

Proven Tactics to Strengthen Business Performance

Running a business involves making constant decisions that affect growth, customer satisfaction, and financial results. In a competitive environment where customers are more informed and selective, improving performance is a moving target. Owners and leaders often face difficult trade-offs, balancing marketing with operations, and innovation with consistency. The challenge lies not just in keeping up with others, but in setting new standards within your market. The following methods are grounded in practice and deliver meaningful gains when implemented with clarity and consistency.

Practical Tips on Locating the Perfect Storage Space for Your Needs

Finding the right storage space can save you time, reduce stress, and help protect your belongings from damage or loss. Whether you're moving, downsizing, or just looking to clear out some space at home, choosing a storage facility should involve more than a quick online search and a hasty booking. Factors such as security, accessibility, size, cost, and climate control all play a part in ensuring your items remain in good condition until you need them again. Exploring these details carefully can prevent future regret and give you peace of mind.

New Features in SQL Server 2025: AI, Performance, and Cloud Integration

Most databases were built for a slower world, one where data waited, systems pulled, and answers came later. But today, data flows. It triggers real-time decisions, powers models in motion, and spans every cloud layer. This shift demands a different kind of database—one built to execute, not just store. Microsoft has answered that call with SQL Server 2025.

NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.40

NiCE is proud to announce the availability of the NiCE DB2 Management Pack 5.40, a new milestone in advanced monitoring and management for IBM DB2 environments. Version 5.40 introduces powerful enhancements that improve efficiency, compatibility, and ease of use: Cluster Synchronization Improvements Ensures more accurate and efficient configuration sync across clustered deployments.

Monitoring Backstage with OpenTelemetry:Closing the observability blind spot

‘One small step for a man, but a huge leap for developers’ — me, when I realised how to observe my Backstage with OpenTelemetry. Backstage is often the “portal” through which we manage all our other systems, but who watches the watcher? Recently, we gave a KubeCon Talk, highlighting that monitoring Backstage itself is critical. When Backstage isn’t observable, it becomes a blind spot in your infrastructure.