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IT’S HERE it’s here it’s here it’s here!!!! The second edition of Observability Engineering is available for download, and since Honeycomb is the sponsor, you can now download it from our website (the dead tree version will take another month). This is a strange time to be writing a book.

The alert comes in at 2 AM: your order processing service is unresponsive. The application is not crashed, threads are running, the JVM is healthy, but no messages are being sent. Your operations team traces it to a blocked send() call on an ActiveMQ connection. Hours later, after restarting the application, someone finds this line in the broker log from 11 PM the previous day.

Prometheus is a battle-tested, flexible and, most importantly, free tool that has long been the go-to open-source monitoring solution. Much of its popularity came down to its simplicity. A few years have gone by, though, and the APM space has gotten pretty crowded. Developers are now starting to move away from the complexity of self-hosting, and OpenTelemetry stands out as one of the CNCF’s fastest-expanding projects. In fact, it’s now among the most adopted telemetry frameworks out there.

Is it necessary to monitor a website that redirects to a different URL? Imagine a user visits a URL and is automatically redirected to a new main URL without taking any action. This process is called URL redirection. It typically occurs when a web server sends a 3xx HTTP status code and a location header with the new URL. Sometimes there is only one redirect, but in other cases, the request passes through several URLs before reaching the final page.

Most IT war rooms have plenty of data, but not enough time or clarity to find the real answer. Dashboards are crowded, alerts keep piling up, and the real issue gets lost in all the noise. Ever dealt with this situation? You’re not alone, and there’s a simpler way to deal with it. OpManager Nexus closes this gap by moving beyond visibility to help teams actually diagnose and fix problems faster.

The shift to autonomous and AI-assisted security operations is well underway. But there is a quiet infrastructure decision that will determine whether your AI agents are sharp or sluggish: how your security data is structured before it ever reaches them.

In our last release, we introduced a beta of performance updates designed for heavier, more complex time series workloads. InfluxDB 3.10 expands that beta to include enterprise features that give teams more control as they scale and manage larger workloads in InfluxDB 3. This release adds end-to-end backup and restore, row-level deletes, bulk import from Parquet, user management, and an RBAC preview to the previous performance beta.

Yesterday’s leak of a BGP hijack intended to block Telegram in India is the latest routing mishap best described as intentional, but also accidental — a pattern dating back to Pakistan Telecom’s infamous hijack of YouTube in 2008, in which a domestic block escaped containment and disrupted the service worldwide.