Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Every day, IT teams are flooded with alerts—thousands of messages about performance issues, service outages, or suspicious activity. With so many notifications, it’s easy to get overwhelmed, miss critical problems, or waste time chasing false alarms. Correlating related alerts into groups can help reduce the noise and make sense of everything, but setting up those correlations takes time, experience, and a lot of both system and historic knowledge.

In DX Unified Infrastructure Management (DX UIM), there are multiple elements that need to work in harmony to achieve a high level of observability. Understanding the architecture of DX UIM can help you make configuration decisions that minimize resource consumption, without sacrificing the volume and granularity of observability data collected. In addition, using static hubs is a simple and particularly powerful option for specific situations.

Enterprises are hemorrhaging their cloud budget: respondents in 49% of organizations estimate their cloud spending is wasted due to unchecked provisioning and lack of predictive cost governance. This cost inefficiency stems not just from financial blind spots, but also from operational gaps: poor visibility into network reliability and user experience. Real-time, end-to-end visibility is the foundation of cloud optimization.

Your dashboard shows a latency spike. To investigate it, you copy the query, open logs in a new tab, paste and modify the query, lose your dashboard filters, and repeat for traces. By the time you find the issue, you have 15 tabs open. Starting today, you can click any panel and investigate right there. All your filters and variables carry over. No more tab juggling.

When your database stops accepting connections or your mail server becomes unreachable during business hours, the impact is immediate and costly. Fortunately, the right monitoring strategy can help you detect these TCP connection failures early on, and prevent them from impacting the user experience.

If you’ve been following my public journey with LLMs this year, it probably won’t surprise you to learn that this blog post is an announcement about the general availability of Honeycomb’s hosted MCP server. I want to share a few updates about what’s new in the GA release, discuss some interesting learnings from building it, and share examples of how we’re using MCP internally. First: if you're still in the dark about MCP and AI agents, go read the earlier blogs I linked.

AI agents for SREs were supposed to slash mean time to resolution and eliminate alert fatigue. Instead, most teams got expensive, unreliable tools that burn through tokens without delivering insights. But what if the problem isn't the AI models themselves? Recent benchmarking reveals the real bottleneck: context engineering. When we tested our context engineering approach against conventional methods, the results were dramatic: Scroll down for our benchmark results to see the full comparison.

For years, organizations have relied on Application Performance Monitoring (APM) as the backbone of their observability strategy. The idea was simple: collect as many logs, metrics, and traces as possible, then sift through the data to uncover insights. But as applications have shifted to the cloud and become increasingly API-driven, that model has broken down.