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What to Monitor in Active Directory to Keep Logons Fast and Access Under Control

Why do logons crawl at one branch while headquarters is fine, or an admin group gain a member nobody approved, and no alert says a word? Trace any of those back far enough and you usually reach Active Directory. Since email, VPN, file shares and line-of-business software all lean on it for credentials, a directory fault rarely looks like itself and tends to show up as a network outage or a bug in some other application. Most of these faults creep in.

Everything We Talked About at O11yDay London 2026

We just wrapped O11yDay London, and one theme ran through every session: writing code is no longer the hard part. Review queues, attention, operating agents in production, runaway token bills, and proving any of it is worth the money are where teams are getting stuck. The teams making progress are the ones who can see what's happening in production. Here are some highlights. We'll have videos available in the near future.

CriblCon 26 Keynote highlights: Cribl StreamAI, App Framework, Marketplace, and Detect

This CriblCon 26 keynote highlight reel introduces Cribl’s AI platform for telemetry and highlights Cribl StreamAI, the Cribl App Framework, Cribl Marketplace, and Cribl Detect. It is relevant to IT, security, and observability teams exploring intelligent model routing, agentic app development, marketplace deployment, and security investigations using telemetry and context. The keynote also covers the SEC IT benchmark, the cost of investigating incidents with different AI models, and included inference for Cribl-native workloads.

Lessons Learned on the Journey Zero Disruption: How to Build Buy-In Across the Organization

Operationalizing digital employee experience is not about implementing another technology platform or launching another transformation project. It is about embedding new capabilities into the way IT and eventually the wider organization identifies problems, manages change and improves the employee experience. That cannot happen through implementation alone.

Use less AI and show your effort in contributing to the OTel project

Using more AI and adding lots of contributions, but not understanding the project, will not scale long-term. OpenTelemetry, like other OSS and cloud native projects, is looking for contributors who care about the ecosystem and genuinely want to learn and support the project. Resources for Further Learning.

What Is IT Change Management? Process, Types, and Best Practices

Last updated: Oct. 15, 2026 IT environments change constantly. The challenge is making those changes without creating unnecessary risk, outages, or delays. IT change management, called Change Enablement in ITIL 4, helps teams assess, authorize, implement, validate, and learn from changes that could affect an IT service. The goal is not to slow delivery. It is to improve change success while reducing disruption, recovery time, compliance risk, and impact on critical business services.