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chaossearch

What is a Real-Time Data Lake?

Feb 28, 2026 By David Bunting In ChaosSearch
A data lake is a centralized data repository where structured, semi-structured, and unstructured data from a variety of sources can be stored in their raw format. Data lakes help eliminate data silos by acting as a single landing zone for data from multiple sources. But what's the difference between a traditional data lake and a real-time data lake? Some traditional data lakes use batch processing, which involves processing and analyzing a collection of data that has been stored over a specific timeframe. For example, payroll and billing systems that are handled on a weekly or monthly basis might use batch processing.
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Behind the magic of auto-instrumentation (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)

Feb 28, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
You add the OpenTelemetry Java agent, restart your app - and like magic, observability appears. But is it really magic? What’s actually enabled by default? What telemetry should you expect to see? What’s missing? And what might you want to tweak, tune, or even turn off?
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Galileo

IT Cost Optimization Strategy: Eliminating Guesswork with Observability

Feb 27, 2026 By Andy Wojnarek In Galileo
IT organizations are being asked to reduce costs, manage risk, and maintain performance at the same time. Meanwhile, infrastructure complexity continues to grow, and vendor pricing changes are reshaping budget assumptions. Too often, an IT cost optimization strategy is shaped by incomplete data around sizing, licensing, refresh timing, and platform decisions. That uncertainty leads to overprovisioning, budget surprises, and reactive operations. Observability changes that equation.
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fabrix

How Fabrix.ai Agents Ensure Data Privacy & Security

Feb 27, 2026 By Shailesh Manjrekar In Fabrix
As Agentic AI moves into enterprise environments, IT and security leaders face a critical challenge on how to leverage advanced LLMs without exposing sensitive data, intellectual property, or proprietary configurations to the cloud. You cannot build a self-driving, autonomous IT infrastructure if your security team blocks the deployment, and that’s exactly why the Fabrix.ai platform features an Enterprise-Grade LLM Integration architecture anchored by our built-in Data Security layer.
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statusgator

Shopify outage on February 15, 2026

Feb 27, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
On February 15, 2026, Shopify experienced a widespread service disruption that impacted merchants and shoppers around the world. While the provider did not acknowledge the issue until 15:36 UTC, StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals detected unusual activity and alerted customers at 15:00 UTC, just minutes after the first outage reports began coming in. This incident highlights the importance of independent, real time monitoring.
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isdown

SendGrid Status Monitoring: How to Track Email Delivery Outages

Feb 27, 2026 By Nuno Tomas In isDown
When SendGrid goes down, your transactional emails stop reaching customers. Password resets fail. Order confirmations vanish. Support tickets never arrive. By the time you notice, customers are already complaining. For DevOps and SRE teams, checking SendGrid status shouldn't be a manual process. It shouldn't wait until customers report it either. For a team sending 10,000 transactional emails per day, a 15-minute outage means roughly 100 emails that never arrived.
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splunk

Talk to Your Logs: LLM-Powered Chat UI in DSDL 5.2.3

Feb 27, 2026 By Huaibo Zhao In Splunk
We are excited to announce the release of the Splunk App for Data Science and Deep Learning (DSDL) version 5.2.3. Since 2018, DSDL has served as an innovation hub for custom AI integrations within Splunk. In 2025, the release of DSDL 5.2.0 introduced customizable Large Language Model (LLM) integrations, bringing Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) and Agentic AI workflows to Splunk users.
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selector

AI Agents in IT Operations: From Concept to Practical Value

Feb 27, 2026 By Dallon Robinette In Selector
Artificial intelligence has been a defining theme in IT operations for nearly a decade. Early AIOps initiatives focused on predictive analytics and anomaly detection, promising to reduce operational overhead and improve system reliability. While these capabilities delivered incremental value, they often fell short of transforming how operations actually functioned.
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incidenthub

The Definitive AWS Outage Report 2025: Reliability Analytics and Cascade Impact

Feb 27, 2026 By Hrishikesh Barua In IncidentHub
Amazon Web Services remains one of the most popular cloud providers, with 200+ services in 39 regions across the world. Like all providers, they have their share of outages. In 2025, IncidentHub detected 38 AWS outages, of which the one on October 20th had the most widespread impact affecting hundreds of SaaS providers simultaneously. Payments were disrupted, students lost access to classrooms, developer tooling degraded, and some IT teams experienced alerting gaps.
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