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coralogix

Confessions of a software engineer who enjoyed being paged at 5am

Dec 18, 2025 By Annie Freeman In Coralogix
It’s 5:14am, and I wake up to the squawking geese sound of my PagerDuty alert (anyone else have this sound? No?). I’m four months into working for my new team as a junior software engineer, and this is my first time being paged in the middle of the night. Most software engineers probably dread this moment, but I kind of love it. Agile ceremonies and Jira tickets suddenly don’t matter, and you’re fully focussed on stopping a customer-impacting fire.
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datadog

Centrally set up and scale monitoring of your infrastructure and apps with Datadog Fleet Automation

Dec 18, 2025 By Ethan Debnath In Datadog
Setting up and scaling observability across large, distributed environments often requires platform and SRE teams to coordinate access to infrastructure hosts and switch between configuration management tools and product-specific documentation. These tasks increase setup time and create delays in establishing visibility of critical services in Datadog. As teams expand their infrastructure, they need to coordinate Datadog configuration changes in a consistent and auditable way.
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datadog

Python memory profiling: Common pitfalls and how to avoid them

Dec 18, 2025 By Bowen Chen In Datadog
Continuous profiling has established itself as core observability practice, so much so that we’ve referred to it as the fourth pillar of observability. But despite the capabilities and growing adoption of continuous profiling, it can still be confusing to approach profiling as a newcomer and correctly apply it to different troubleshooting scenarios.
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datadog

Day 2 with Cilium: Small configurations that keep large clusters boring

Dec 18, 2025 By Candace Shamieh In Datadog
Operating Cilium at a small scale is straightforward. You install the Helm chart, choose a routing mode, and apply a few network policies. Day 1 is about getting packets to flow. Day 2 is about keeping them boring. At Datadog, we run Cilium across hundreds of Kubernetes clusters, tens of thousands of nodes, and hundreds of thousands of pods in multiple clouds. When operating at this scale, small configuration choices stop being minor details and start becoming risk multipliers.
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netdata

Text-to-Alert: Generating Netdata Alerts from Natural Language

Dec 18, 2025 By Shyam Sreevalsan In netdata
Netdata has an incredibly powerful alerting engine. But this can sometimes be a double-edged sword: the flexibility to build incredibly specific, intelligent alerts is immense, but mastering its syntax can feel like learning a new language. We’ve heard this from so many of you. You tell us that configuring alerts is often the steepest part of the learning curve, a task that falls to the one “Netdata expert” on the team who has spent the time digging through the documentation.
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Kentik

A Year in Internet Analysis: 2025

Dec 18, 2025 By Doug Madory In Kentik
This year-end wrap-up covers topics from BGP security (including ASPA and excessive AS-SETs) and the geopolitical (Ukraine’s IPv4 exodus, the Iran internet shutdown, and Red Sea cable cuts) to the year’s most significant outages (TikTok, the Spain/Portugal blackout, and cloud failures at AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare). Plus, we explore Starlink’s new Community Gateways, and revisit the evolving landscape of AS ranking and OTT service tracking.
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Debug Faster with Chrome + Rollbar Debugging Assistant

Dec 18, 2025 By Rollbar In Rollbar
Context switching is one of the biggest hidden productivity killers in debugging. Jumping between multiple open browser tabs slows momentum and increases cognitive load, especially when you’re trying to diagnose an issue under pressure. Google Chrome's new split screen feature, paired with Rollbar Debugging Assistant, enables a faster, more focused way to troubleshoot errors without constantly losing your place.
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mezmo

The Observability Stack is Collapsing: Why Context-First Data is the Only Path to AI-Powered Root Cause Analysis

Dec 18, 2025 By Mezmo In Mezmo
By Bill Balnave, VP of Customer Success at Mezmo The core promise of modern observability is simple: cut Mean Time To Resolution (MTTR). Yet, despite a boom in tooling and investment over the last four years, the data tells a sobering story: our industry is actually getting worse at finding and resolving issues. Dashboards, once our trusted guide, have become the starting point for a chaotic "dashboard hunt" that rarely leads to the definitive root cause.
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Site24x7's Kubernetes monitoring | Proactive, scalable, AI-powered

Dec 18, 2025 By ManageEngine Site24x7 In Site24x7
Kubernetes drives modern cloud-native applications, but its distributed nature creates visibility and performance challenges at scale. In this video, discover how Site24x7 provides real-time monitoring, AI-powered anomaly detection, and scalability for Kubernetes environments, helping you to proactively manage resources and resolve issues faster. Key features of Site24x7 Kubernetes Monitoring: Whether you're running a single Kubernetes cluster or managing multiple environments, Site24x7 helps you ensure peak performance and faster decision-making with minimal manual intervention.
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