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The launch of Puppet Edge this week could not have been more timely. Within a day of its general availability, Cisco disclosed a vulnerability in its IOS and IOS XE software, followed almost immediately by an Event Response detailing two additional critical-severity CVEs affecting its firewalls.

As organizations navigate increasingly complex tech environments, unified observability practices have become essential. That was one of the main takeaways from Grafana Labs Co-founder Anthony Woods’ recent appearance on “Tech Keys by by Mercari India,” a podcast hosted by Vaibhav Khurana, Head of Platform Engineering at Mercari India.

I recently joined the Developer Advocacy team here at Grafana Labs, and have been exploring ways to accelerate my Grafana learning journey. Like many others in the Grafana community, my introduction to the open source project happened when I needed a way to easily visualize data that resided in external databases, mostly using SQL queries.

To stay ahead in the crypto world, you need latest information about cryptocurrencies. With so many coins out there and prices changing all the time, knowing which ones are doing the best gives you a quick snapshot of what’s hot right now. Whether you’re investing, just curious, or trying to understand the market better, this information makes it easier to spot trends and make smarter decisions.

<span data-mce-type="bookmark" style="display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;" class="mce_SELRES_start"></span> Andrew Hillier sits down with Dan Ciruli, who leads the cloud native product management team at Nutanix.

The role of the healthcare CIO looks nothing like it did a decade ago. Running the EHR, keeping infrastructure online, and managing vendor contracts are still table stakes, but they’re no longer the whole story. Today’s healthcare CIOs are being asked to do something far bigger: lead enterprise-wide transformation.

It’s 3 AM. API latency just spiked from 200ms to 2s. Alerts are firing, and users are frustrated. You SSH into the first server: top, free -h, iostat — nothing unusual. On to the next host. And the next. That’s how most of us learned to debug. The tools worked, and we got good at using them. But as infrastructure became distributed and dynamic, this approach started to break down. Modern monitoring needs more than SSH and top. It needs unified telemetry.

A SaaS team once spotted their first breach not in a SIEM dashboard, but in their AWS bill. Their compute costs spiked by 400% overnight. Turns out, an attacker had spun up dozens of high-powered instances for crypto mining. Logs eventually confirmed the intrusion, but the cost anomaly was the first signal that something was wrong. This incident isn’t unusual. Cloud costs often reflect consumption, but they can also reflect compromise.

Man-in-the-Middle (MITM) attacks remain one of the most dangerous cybersecurity threats. In these attacks, hackers secretly intercept and sometimes alter communication between two parties. Without proper encryption, sensitive data such as passwords, credit card details, and personal information becomes exposed. SSL/TLS certificates encrypt this communication, preventing unauthorized access. However, certificates can expire, become misconfigured, or become compromised, creating security gaps.

When was the last time you really saw what your customers experience on your site? We're excited to introduce Session Replay, a new capability in our Internet Performance Monitoring (IPM) platform that lets you step directly into the user's journey. Session Replay is so much more than a platform upgrade. It’s an opportunity to understand, fix, and even prevent the issues that lead to churn, missed conversions, and frustrated users, all from their point of view.