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coralogix

Managing OpenTelemetry at Scale: Why OTel Pipelines Need a Control Plane

May 10, 2026 By Jonny Steiner In Coralogix
OpenTelemetry made telemetry possible everywhere – turning observability pipelines into distributed production infrastructure. Distributed infrastructure requires a control plane for inventory, governance, and safe change. At 500 collectors across hybrid environments, operational overhead becomes a production risk. The moment telemetry pipelines become a distributed infrastructure, they inherit the operational problems of one.
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Internxt

8 Best VPN Services for 2026

May 10, 2026 By Internxt Team In Internxt
It’s 2026 and it’s time to get up to speed. A Virtual Private Network (VPN) is an absolute necessity for anyone working remotely or anyone who travels often. That said, there are plenty of other people who would benefit from a solid VPN. VPNs work by providing an end-to-end encrypted tunnel between your device and the VPN operator’s server. All of your traffic is then encrypted and routed through this tunnel.
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netdata

Geo Maps: See Where Your Infrastructure Lives

May 9, 2026 By Shyam Sreevalsan In netdata
When your infrastructure is spread across regions, data centers, branch offices, or edge locations, knowing where a node is physically located matters more than people usually admit. During an incident, “the node in the Singapore POP” communicates faster than a hostname. When you’re planning capacity, seeing geographic clustering tells you something that a flat list of nodes doesn’t.
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5 Surefire Marketing Methods to Boost Your Business This Year

5 Surefire Marketing Methods to Boost Your Business This Year

May 9, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Every business owner is looking for stronger visibility, better customer engagement, and higher sales, but getting there can feel like an uphill battle when trends change so often. The good news is that successful marketing doesn't always need a massive budget or complicated campaigns. In many cases, the most effective results come from simple ideas that are carried out with consistency and clear direction. Whether you're hoping to get traffic to your website, or you're hoping to climb up the ranks on Google search engines, there are so many reliable methods that can support your long-term growth.
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Avantra

Avantra 26: A Breath of Fresh Multi-Tenant AIR

May 8, 2026 By Brenton O'Callaghan In Avantra
There’s a crackle and spark in the air at Avantra lately, and I’m so pleased to be writing this bit on what we’ve accomplished with the Avantra 26 release. Automated root cause analysis, multi-tenant management support for Cloud ALM, enhanced security operations and financial operations monitoring BTP – it’s all there, and more. It’s an exciting and innovative release for Avantra!
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statusgator

AWS outage takes down more than 150 cloud services

May 8, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
On May 7th and 8th, 2026, Amazon Web Services (AWS) experienced an outage affecting Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) in the dreaded US East 1 region. The original region of AWS located in Northern Virginia, us-east-1 or just “US East” as it is known, has been the subject of some of the internet’s most high profile and destructive outages and remains Amazon’s least reliable region.
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almaden ai

Collective IQ Business: meet the artificial intelligence that transforms IT management

May 8, 2026 By Almaden AI In Almaden AI
The employee digital experience (DEX) is no longer just a concept; it has become a concrete discipline supported by specialized tools. At the center of this transformation is Collective IQ, Almaden’s DEX solution, available in the Essential and Business editions. The Business edition includes AlmaAI a family of generative AI capabilities that take IT management to a new level.
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selector

Operational Intelligence and the Hidden Structure in System Logs

May 8, 2026 By Bob Slevin In Selector
Most IT teams do not suffer from a lack of data. They suffer from the amount of effort required to make sense of it. Every network device, application, cloud service, and infrastructure component generates a constant stream of machine output. Logs capture state changes, failures, retries, warnings, and thousands of other small signals about how systems behave. The problem is that raw logs are hard to use at operational speed.
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VictoriaMetrics

Multi-tiered Observability: A Practical Way to Handle Diverse Workloads

May 8, 2026 By Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
Observability in large companies is rarely one-size-fits-all. The VictoriaMetrics topologies guide shows why different deployment patterns are needed as scale, isolation, and reliability requirements grow. Different workloads require different trade-offs: some need long retention for audits and trend analysis, while others need higher resolution for debugging. Business-critical systems also demand dependable alerting and high availability, often with several 9s of reliability.
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