Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Welcome to Almaden Collective IQ

Collective IQ DEX gives you visibility into the digital employee experience, helping IT become more proactive to reduce friction, resolve issues faster, and keep employees productive and engaged. Collective IQ DEX (CIQ DEX) gives you a unified view of employee experience across devices, locations, applications, collaboration tools, and sentiment, combining performance monitoring, intelligent IT asset analysis, and employee perception with drill‑down to each user and endpoint.

Certificate Discovery, Monitoring and Reporting | WhatsUp Gold 2026.0

Discover how WhatsUp Gold helps you identify and monitor certificates to reduce security risks, stay compliant, and avoid outages caused by expired or improperly configured certificates, featuring the latest reporting enhancements available in WhatsUp Gold version 2026.0.

Disaster Recovery Testing in Harness | Resilience Testing

In this video, we introduce Harness Resilience Testing and show you how to move beyond once-a-year DR drills to a continuously validated, pipeline-driven process. You'll see how Harness lets you validate regional failovers, check database replication lag under pressure, and confirm your hot standbys genuinely take over live traffic, all in one place. We also walk through a live DR test execution, showing exactly how Harness triggers the full failover sequence, runs every validation step automatically, and gives you a clear pass or fail result in real time.

The New Kubernetes Monitoring Experience in Splunk Observability Cloud

In this video, I walk through the three main pieces of the new Kubernetes monitoring experience in Splunk Observability Cloud: the Kubernetes overview page for monitoring the status and top issues across your environment, the Kubernetes Entities page for troubleshooting individual instances with correlated metrics, logs, events, and configuration, and the Workload Optimization view for getting actionable recommendations on your CPU and memory resource allocation.

The 2026 software supply chain security gap

AI-generated code is now nearly universal. Enforcement is not. That gap is where your software supply chain is most exposed. Cloudsmith's CEO Glenn Weinstein, Co-Founder & CTO Lee Skillen, and VP of Product Alison Sickelka join Product Marketing Manager Meghan McGowan to unpack the 2026 State of Artifact Management report – a survey-based look at how AI development is reshaping the threat landscape, what organizations are getting wrong, and what the highest-leverage fix actually looks like.

Introducing the Cortex AI Assistant (now in Slack)!

Mention @Cortex in any Slack channel the Assistant has been invited to, public or private, and get grounded answers pulled from your Cortex data. Questions can be as simple as "who owns payments-api?" or as analytical as "what's driving our incident trends this quarter?" The Assistant pulls context from all across Cortex, including ownership, Scorecards, Initiatives, on-call, dependencies, and Eng Intelligence metrics, and holds context across a threaded conversation.

Demo - Selector Platform NOC Operator Workflow

See how Selector transforms NOC operations in real time. This demo walks through a typical workflow - from ingesting massive volumes of network and system data to automatically detecting anomalies, correlating events, and pinpointing true root cause. Instead of chasing alerts across siloed tools, Selector delivers a single, intelligent view - reducing noise, highlighting impact, and accelerating resolution.