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Elastic's new metrics capabilities will dramatically improve uptime for public sector IT

The new columnar metrics engine in Elastic Observability enables public sector IT teams to combine logging, metrics, and traces in one platform. As a result, SREs can improve uptime while protecting taxpayer dollars in the process. Public sector site reliability engineers (SREs) operate under a distinct set of pressures, whether that’s supporting a federal agency, a health department, a public university, or a transit authority.

On Release Days We Wear Teal Episode for release 4.19

In this episode, Leon explores some of the new features, functions, updates, and improvements in release 4.19, which includes a raft of AI-enabled features including the Cribl Apps, integrated MCP server, and the fact that AI features are now turned on by default. For more information, check out these links.

How to structure a log

You’ve decided to step up your logging game and start sending more valuable, structured logs that you can query, aggregate, and use for debugging in production. Go, you! Now, uh, how do you actually write them? We’re not going to spend much time on what you should log. We’ve covered that already, a few times before. What we will be covering is how to actually write those logs, answering questions like: What makes a log structured is not just pairing messages with arbitrary JSON objects.

I'll have my AI agent call your AI agent: Battle for your digital hub

On this episode of Masters of Data, we unpack what it actually means to expect AI to be the primary interface for everything we do. We dig into the pull toward centralizing work in a single hub like Claude versus staying spread across specialized tools like Slack, Asana and Zoom, and where the line sits between helpful automation and letting an agent speak on your behalf. We also get into the "chief of staff" agent workflow for daily roundups and why specialized, best-of-breed tools aren't going anywhere, even as hubs get smarter.

Why partners love working with Cribl

Hear directly from Cribl partners—including AWS—about what it’s really like to work together. This short is for technology and cloud partners, consulting firms, and customers who want a quick, human view of Cribl’s partner ecosystem and the value it delivers. In under two minutes, partners highlight Cribl’s partner program, the people they work with, and the outcomes they’re delivering for joint customers. You’ll hear about the FedRAMP opportunity, why “it’s all about the data” for AWS, and how Cribl helps get data where it needs to be for shared customers.

Prometheus Metrics Just Got a Cardinality Fix: What Native Histograms Change, and Why the Ecosystem Is Reacting

TL;DR: Prometheus’s biggest structural weakness has always been cardinality. A stable feature years in the making is finally addressing it, and the rest of the observability market is already responding. Native histograms allow for more efficient metrics storage, reducing cardinality strain and enabling faster, more cost-effective AI-powered observability. Ready to see how AI-powered observability can simplify your monitoring? Book a demo of the Open 360 platform.

What Is Alert Fatigue, and Why Do IT Teams Miss Critical Alerts?

Alert fatigue is one of the biggest reasons critical incidents get missed. In this video, learn what alert fatigue is, why it happens, and how reducing noisy, repetitive notifications helps IT teams respond faster to the alerts that actually matter. Whether you're an IT operations professional, SRE, DevOps engineer, NOC analyst, or IT manager, this video explains alert fatigue in simple terms and shares practical ways to reduce alert noise, prioritize critical issues, and improve incident response.

Top 12 Network Monitoring Tools in 2026: Complete Comparison & Reviews

Modern infrastructure is no longer a stack of routers, switches, and racks sitting in a single data center. Most teams now run a mix of Kubernetes clusters, virtual machines, managed cloud services, and SaaS dependencies spread across regions and providers. Knowing which device is up is not the same as knowing whether your application is healthy.