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This Halloween, the Scariest Monsters Are in Your Network

In the spirit of Halloween, let's talk about monsters. Not the kind that hide under your bed, but the ones that live inside your network infrastructure. For those responsible for keeping the lights on, these creatures aren't fictional; they are a daily reality. Your environment can feel like an episode from the Real Ghostbusters, teeming with things that snarl, bite, and cause chaos at the worst possible moments. Forget silver bullets; trying to fight them one by one is a losing battle.

Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud: Get more precision from your Grafana visualizations

In May, we announced the public preview of Prometheus native histograms in Grafana Cloud, unlocking greater precision, ease of use, and compatibility for analyzing latency, duration, and other distributions. Since then, we’ve seen incredible adoption across industries—from financial services companies to e-commerce platforms. Last week, during PromCon EU 2025, the Prometheus developers announced that native histograms are now stable, after three years of intense testing and improvements.

SQL expressions in Grafana: Combine and manipulate data from multiple sources

One of Grafana’s greatest strengths is its ability to provide a consistent monitoring experience for all your data sources. But not everyone wants to go through the process of transforming that data and setting up a data warehouse to make that happen, especially for complex analyses.

From Maintenance to Monitoring: Digital Tools for Better AC Management

The traditional approach to AC upkeep relied heavily on reactive maintenance, where technicians addressed issues only after they occurred. The digital age has ushered in an array of tools that make routine maintenance easy and employ advanced technologies for proactive monitoring. By integrating these tools into AC management practices, homeowners and businesses can improve system efficiency, reduce energy costs, and extend the lifespan of their equipment.

Azure status integration is here!

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our Azure status integration, bringing Microsoft Azure’s real-time service health and incident data directly into your StatusGator dashboard and status page. With this new integration, StatusGator automatically imports Azure outages and service status updates from your Azure subscription — giving you a complete, centralized view of your cloud infrastructure alongside every other service you monitor.

Streamline IT Event Management

Managing Microsoft SCOM events can often feel overwhelming, with countless alerts and notifications making it difficult to identify what truly matters. Working with our partner Kelverion, we are excited to introduce a Routing & Remediation solution for SCOrch that helps your teams focus on the issues that count, while automating the rest.

FinOps for Hybrid IT: Extending Visibility Beyond the Cloud

Controlling IT spend used to mean managing cloud invoices. Today, it’s far more complex. Modern enterprises run workloads across multiple platforms — cloud, virtualized, and on-premises — each with its own cost structures and dependencies. That’s why FinOps for hybrid IT has become essential. Extending FinOps principles beyond cloud services enables organizations to see how every part of the infrastructure contributes to cost, efficiency, and business value.

Playwright Check Suites Are Now GA - But What Does That Mean For You?

There are only a few companies that successfully invest in actively monitoring real user flows in production. I’ve been puzzled by the state of the art for many years, because I’m an anxious developer that always needs to know that production is “all right”. How can it be okay for all of us to wait for error logs, thrown exceptions or customer complains to learn about production issues?

How Generative AI is shaping the future of enterprise applications

The next golden age of artificial intelligence has arrived, but the path forward is far from certain. Technology leaders are presented with a tremendous opportunity to revolutionize their business — that is, if they can find a way to tap into the full potential of their organization's data. In Episode 4 of Elastic's new limited series, Generation AI, Elastic's Sr. Director, Enterprise Applications, Jay Shah, shares how he believes generative AI will shape the future of enterprise applications.