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Why SSL Certificate Verification Failed: All Causes, Fixes & Prevention

SSL Certificate Verification Failed errors are one of the most common and frustrating issues for developers, DevOps engineers, and system administrators. Whether you're building a Python application, running a Docker container, or managing a web server, this guide will help you.

Top tips: Beating notification fatigue before it beats you

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world today and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’re looking at the rise of notification fatigue and how to manage alerts so they boost productivity instead of draining it. You’re in the middle of a task, fully focused, when ping!—a new email lands. You glance at it, thinking it’ll only take a second, but by the time you get back to your work, you’ve lost your momentum.

LogRocket - The Ultimate Toolkit for Front-End Insight and Performance

When you need to get beyond surface-level metrics and see what users are actually going through when using your web application, LogRocket provides a potent set of tools. It was built with designers, developers, marketers, ecommerce managers, and web site owners in mind and in a nutshell it combines session replay, error tracking, product-level analytics, and AI-driven insight all in one place.

AI for Grafana onboarding: Get your teams started quicker with Grafana Assistant

Grafana puts a powerful set of observability capabilities right at your fingertips, but onboarding entire teams to the sophisticated platform is often a nontrivial exercise—one that can slow adoption and prevent organizations from getting immediate value. We want to make the process as frictionless as possible, which is why we’re excited to tell you that Grafana Assistant is now available in public preview to all Grafana Cloud users.

AI in observability at Grafana Labs: Making observability easy and accessible for everyone

Did you know that observability has been around for more than six decades? It all goes back to a Hungarian-American inventor named Rudolf Kálmán who thought about how external outputs could measure the internal state of a machine. Kálmán wrote about monitoring single-input single-output systems, but our demands are very different today. We need to observe monoliths, microservices, clusters, pods, regions, and many more.

Network Switch Monitoring: How to Monitor Switch Performance with SNMP

If you’ve spent any time managing networks, you know the switch is the backbone that keeps everything connected, but it’s easy to take them for granted until something breaks. Monitoring network switches isn’t just “nice to have”; it’s critical if you want to avoid those sudden outages that bring everything to a halt.

Sentry MCP server monitoring

We just launched MCP server monitoring in beta. You can instrument most server-side JavaScript SDK based MCP servers with one line of instrumentation code within your MCP SDK implementation using: wrapMcpServerWithSentry(McpServer) See details like protocol usage, client usage, traffic, tool usage, and performance across your MCP implementation so you you can get visibility into all the sharp edges that your MCP server has — who’s using it, how it’s working (or not), and get alerted when things break.