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Migrating from Nagios XI to WhatsUp Gold: A Practical Step-by-Step Guide

Monitoring platforms rarely become complex overnight. In many Nagios XI environments, complexity builds gradually through years of useful customizations, custom plugins, one-off fixes, and undocumented operational knowledge. Each addition may have solved a real problem at the time, but over the years the result can become difficult to maintain, explain, and hand over to new administrators.

Stop Guessing Where the Network Broke

Modern IT teams invest heavily in monitoring infrastructure, applications, servers, and network devices. Yet when users report that a critical cloud service is slow or a branch office loses connectivity, one question often remains difficult to answer: where is the problem actually occurring? Is the issue inside your network? Is it your ISP? Has a routing change introduced excessive latency? Did an upstream provider experience an outage?

From Log Line to Merged Fix: AI SRE Agent AURA with GitHub MCP

Knowing why it broke is not the same as having it repaired. Point the agent at the repos behind the service and the change comes back as a pull request. A Govee integration crash-loops under Home Assistant because the container cannot write to a directory it does not own. That much was already established: the previous homelab video stopped at the root cause on purpose, so the next pass could improve the agent's configuration first.

Grafana Tempo: Trace diff & span pruning (August 2026 Community Call)

We will look at some new features: trace diff and span pruning Can't comment in the chat? You may need to create a channel. Join us live for an introduction to flame graphs. We’ll cover what they are, how to read them, and how to use them to find performance bottlenecks in your applications. Bring your questions! Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, traces, and profiles. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more.

Automated agent triage with Agent Tracing and Claude Routines

Every morning, before anyone on the team has looked at a dashboard, a Claude Routine has already read around 800 of the previous night’s conversations from Seer, Sentry’s AI agent for triaging and fixing errors. It flags the ones that look broken, and files tickets for anything new. By the time we sit down with coffee, the triage is mostly done.

OpenTelemetry at the edge: Observability for IoT fleets with Bindplane and Dynatrace

By the time an IoT device shows up in an incident review, it has usually already done its damage. Not the dashboard-gap kind. These devices are load bearing. They sit in the control path of substations, haul trucks, pump stations and cold rooms, so when they go blind the blast radius gets measured in tripped relays, spoiled stock, and unplanned outages rather than in missing datapoints.

How volumetric sampling makes the most of your trace budget in Grafana Cloud

Tracing is one of the richest observability signals, but it's also noisy and susceptible to data bloat. In a busy system, the vast majority of traces describe the same healthy, fast, successful request over and over, so most organizations downsample their traces to cut costs. But that approach has consequences, since the sampling strategy you choose determines whether you get a faithful picture of your whole system, or just a smaller, blurrier copy of your busiest endpoints.