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Scout MCP Server: Example Prompts, Use Cases, and What's New

The Scout MCP server connects your AI assistant directly to your Scout Monitoring data. Instead of switching between your editor, Scout, and a chat window, your assistant can pull traces, errors, N+1 insights, and endpoint metrics on its own and use that context to suggest or make fixes right in your codebase. This covers how to connect it, what to ask it, how other teams are using it, and what we shipped recently.

Why AI observability is a critical ITOps priority

AI Observability is a Critical Priority for ITOps Teams See how LogicMonitor helps ITOps teams monitor AI workloads, reduce blind spots, and move toward Autonomous IT. Schedule a meeting AI has shifted from experimental pilots to everyday business operations. Customers are interacting with AI-powered applications. Engineering teams are building with LLMs, GPUs, APIs, and automation at a much faster pace. That adds to the visibility strain on already overburdened ITOps teams.

Reduce Alert Fatigue with Composite Alerting in Hosted Graphite | Tutorial

Tired of noisy alerts waking you up for issues that are not actually impacting your services? In this tutorial, we walk through MetricFire's Composite Alerting capabilities and show how to combine multiple metric conditions into a single high-confidence alert using AND / OR logic. Learn how to: Reduce alert fatigue and false positives Create service level alerts in Graphite Combine CPU, latency, and database metrics into meaningful alerts Use conditional logic to improve signal quality Build smarter observability workflows with Hosted Graphite.

9 Powerful Log Monitoring Best Practices to Follow in 2026

How many of your last five incidents were already sitting in the logs before anyone noticed? Most teams already collect more than enough log data. The problem starts with what happens next, and the same four gaps show up almost everywhere: This guide covers the log monitoring best practices that close those gaps. It walks through how to collect, structure, correlate, retain, and secure logs, so monitoring becomes a steady process and not a scramble during the next incident.

Why Does Network Topology Decide How Fast Your Network Recovers?

In this video, learn why network topology plays a critical role in network resilience, troubleshooting, and recovery. Discover how understanding network dependencies, eliminating single points of failure, and maintaining clear visibility can help IT teams reduce downtime and accelerate incident response. In this video, you'll learn.

Telemetry Talks ep. 5 - OpenTelemetry in the AI agents era

Telemetry Talks explores how OpenTelemetry’s CNCF graduation arrives at a pivotal moment for AI-powered development. Together with Alex Marshalov, we dive into vibe coding, AI agents, and the growing need for observability in GenAI systems — from prompts and token usage to reasoning chains and distributed traces — using the VictoriaMetrics stack and OpenTelemetry as the foundation for understanding the next generation of autonomous software.

ActiveMQ Protocol Comparison: AMQP vs MQTT vs OpenWire vs STOMP

One of ActiveMQ's most powerful and underappreciated capabilities is its protocol polyglotism: a single broker can simultaneously accept Java JMS clients over OpenWire, Python services over AMQP, IoT sensors over MQTT, and Ruby scripts over STOMP, all routing messages between each other without protocol bridges or translation middleware.

What Is Your Operating Model Costing Your Business?

The biggest cost in your business may not appear anywhere on your balance sheet because some of the most expensive problems are rarely measured directly. Lost productivity, recurring technology issues, underused applications, and the effort required to manage them all accumulate over time without ever appearing as a line item in a financial report.