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logicmonitor

Why Observability Budgets Keep Growing Even When IT Is Asked to Cut Costs

Jan 13, 2026 By Sofia Burton In LogicMonitor
Observability is the surprising budget line that isn’t shrinking. 96% of IT leaders expect observability budgets to hold steady or grow over the next 12 months. And 62% expect those budgets to increase regardless of broader IT budget cuts. Why? Because as infrastructure becomes more distributed and harder to manage, observability has shifted from a “nice to have” to a control point for cost, performance, and risk.
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honeycomb

OpAMP Explained: Why OpenTelemetry Needed an Agent Management Protocol (and How We Use It)

Jan 13, 2026 By Tyler Helmuth In Honeycomb
OpenTelemetry makes it easy to produce and transmit any type of telemetry. In production environments, this often means deploying the OpenTelemetry Collector as an intermediary to process, enrich, and route telemetry data. As systems scale, so does this infrastructure—sometimes to hundreds or thousands of Collectors spread across environments.
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influxdata

Optimizing BESS Operations: Real-Time Monitoring & Predictive Maintenance with InfluxDB 3

Jan 13, 2026 By Suyash Joshi In InfluxData
For IT and OT engineers managing Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) and other distributed energy resources (DER), the challenge isn’t just dealing with energy. It’s a data problem, or managing the massive stream of real-time telemetry these systems generate. For example, a BESS site produces a constant stream of time-series data from BMS, PCS, SCADA, EMS, and more, and operating it means ingesting, correlating, and acting on that data in real time. And this challenge changes with scope.
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observiq

Bindplane + Oodle.ai: AI-Native Observability Meets AI-Driven Telemetry Pipelines

Jan 13, 2026 By Adnan Rahic &Sai Prameela Konduru In ObservIQ
Today, we’re excited to announce a new integration between Bindplane and Oodle.ai — combining an AI-driven, OpenTelemetry-native telemetry pipeline with an AI-native observability platform built for extreme scale. With Bindplane acting as the control plane for telemetry and Oodle.ai providing AI-powered analysis across logs, metrics, and traces, you get a single, intelligent, vendor-neutral pipeline from raw telemetry to actionable insight.
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atatus

Continuous Profiling Explained: Master Performance in Production

Jan 13, 2026 By Mohana Ayeswariya J In Atatus
Backend systems rarely fail in obvious ways. More often, they degrade over time. CPU usage slowly increases, request latency creeps up, and costs rise without a clear explanation. Metrics tell you something is wrong, traces show where requests go, but neither explains why your code behaves the way it does under real load. Continuous profiling fills that gap. Atatus continuous profiling runs automatically in production with minimal overhead.
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sentry

Not everything that breaks is an error: a Logs and Next.js story

Jan 13, 2026 By Sergiy Dybskiy In Sentry
Stack traces are great, but they only tell you what broke. They rarely tell you why. When an exception fires, you get a snapshot of the moment things went sideways, but the context leading up to that moment? Gone. That's where logs come in. A well-placed log can be the difference between hours of head-scratching and a five-minute fix. Let me show you what I mean with a real bug I encountered recently.
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atatus

Top 15 Lumigo Competitors & Alternatives 2026

Jan 13, 2026 By Pavithra Parthiban In Atatus
Lumigo is a cloud-native observability platform designed primarily for serverless applications and microservices, providing distributed tracing, error detection, and performance monitoring. However, Lumigo may not meet every team's needs due to limitations in features, pricing, scalability, or support for other environments. Many organizations require Lumigo alternatives that provide broader infrastructure monitoring, more advanced analytics, or support for multi-cloud setups.
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manageengine

Top cloud cost management trends in 2026

Jan 12, 2026 By Sinjan Ballav In ManageEngine
Cloud spending has shifted from an IT afterthought to a strategic performance lever. As organizations head into 2026, many IT teams are rethinking how they use, govern, and optimize cloud resources, not just how much they consume. Enterprises, startups, and MSPs are entering an efficiency-first era, fueled by multi-cloud adoption, distributed architectures, and a growing need to balance performance with predictable budgets. The question is no longer: How much are we spending?
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The 54% Improvement Playbook: How Top Performers Integrate GenAI into ITSM

Jan 12, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Don't just read the report—learn how to replicate its most impressive results. In our 2025 State of ITSM Report, a select group of top-performing organizations achieved a staggering 54.3% reduction in resolution time by strategically integrating GenAI. This live session moves beyond the data to share their playbook. We'll provide a step-by-step guide on how to pair GenAI with foundational ITSM practices and demonstrate how to weave these tools into your team's daily workflows to achieve maximum efficiency.
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