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The Benefits of Distributed Network Monitoring for Multi-Site Businesses: Why Hybrid Work Changed Everything

Most companies rewired how their people work, not once but twice. First for remote, then for RTO (Return to Office). Their network monitoring never caught up. So, what happened? IT teams are managing a network that spans headquarters, branch offices, home setups, and cloud apps with tools that still assume everyone's connecting back to one place. When something breaks (and it will), nobody can pinpoint where. IT takes the blame. Users lose productivity. Leadership loses patience.

AI Assistant vs Skylar Advisor

What happens when AI understands your entire environment? With Skylar Advisor, you move beyond prompts and responses and get prioritized guidance based on real operational impact. Skylar Advisor identifies what matters most, explains why it matters, and provides clear next steps so even junior IT professionals can operate with confidence.

Evaluating our AI Guard application to improve quality and control cost

This article is part of our series on how Datadog’s engineering teams use LLM Observability to build, monitor, and improve AI-powered systems. Organizations are building AI agents that help users automate work, analyze data, and interact with complex systems through natural language. As these agents become more capable, they also become more complex and exposed to risks such as prompt injection, data leaks, and unsafe code execution.

Using Core Web Vitals in Honeycomb Frontend Telemetry

Google's Core Web Vitals (CWVs) measurements have been used by web administrators and SREs to review frontend application performance metrics, and have been factored into Google's page rankings since 2021. They are also used in Google Analytics, which crawls websites and evaluates performance metrics over a period of multiple days, and with various frontends (desktop web, mobile web, etc.) to establish how well a website performs in production.

The limits of MCP and how Olly surpasses them

Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers act as adapter layers between clients and AI based workloads. MCP installation into an IDE, such as Cursor, brings a wealth of information directly into the developers primary tool, minimizing context switching and, especially in the world of observability, bringing telemetry closer to the code. MCP is not without its limits. These limits initially seem trivial, but in time, some of the inherent limitations to a basic MCP implementation become apparent.

A 4-Month Bug Fixed in <10 Minutes with Olly

In today’s highly interconnected systems, the subtle relationships between services are rarely obvious. Modern, complex architectures generate telemetry that functions less as “flashing signs” and more as faint “breadcrumbs” to be followed across a vast network of signals. In 2025, about two-thirds of outages involved third-party systems like cloud platforms and APIs.

Icinga Notifications: Improving Alerting and Incident Workflows Webinar

Modern monitoring is not just about alerting, it’s about reducing noise, protecting on-call engineers from burnout, and improving incident MTTR through context-aware workflows. Icinga Notifications helps teams achieve just that with configurable, extensible alert processing built for scale. This webinar was held on February 17, 2026. We dive into the brand-new Icinga Notifications capabilities, a modern approach to alerting and incident workflows tailored for complex, dynamic infrastructures.