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Observability Masterclass | AI-Driven Observability for Enhanced System Performance

Tuesday, October 28, 10:00 - 11:00am CDT In today’s relentless digital world, achieving peak system performance isn’t just a goal—it’s mission-critical. Join SolarWinds and GigaOm for an electrifying webcast featuring renowned Observability authority Jon Collins, VP of Engagement and Field CTO at GigaOm.

Integration & Data Ingestion: Strengthening AIOps Observability

Large enterprises face the challenge of managing high-volume, very diverse data streams that span both legacy and modern, digital systems and applications. To gain timely, accurate insight across this kind of complexity, IT teams need observability platforms that can do more than just monitor - they must also unify, contextualize and enrich data so teams can act effectively to protect the availability of the services their customers rely on.

Query Distinct Tag Values in Under 30ms with the InfluxDB 3 Distinct Value Cache

The Distinct Value Cache (DVC) available with InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise lets you cache distinct values of specific columns and query those values in under 30ms. The DVC is an in-memory cache that stores distinct values of one or more columns in a table. It is typically used to cache distinct tag values, but you can also cache distinct field values.

Shadow AI on Trial: The Phantom Threat to Compliance

Every law firm I meet can explain its information security policy in minutes. Far fewer can tell me which AI tools their staff actually used last week, and what data those tools touched. That gap is where Shadow AI sits, such as unsanctioned, unmonitored use of generative AI slips in. It promises speed, but it quietly creates exposure: confidentiality breaches, weak auditability, and a risk to governance when the regulator (or a client’s GC) asks hard questions.

What is the Role of IT Ops? Key Responsibilities Explained

The IT ops role serves as the backbone of modern technology infrastructure, ensuring systems run smoothly, securely, and efficiently. IT operations teams manage everything from server maintenance to incident response, making them essential for business continuity. Understanding what IT operations professionals do helps organizations build stronger technical teams and improve their infrastructure management.

AI monitoring is coming to Oh Dear

Would you know if your checkout form stopped working overnight? Or if a recent deploy broke your login flow? Traditional monitoring can't catch these issues - it only tells you if your site is up, not if it actually works. AI monitoring lets you describe what should work in plain English, and we'll test it like a real user would - clicking buttons, filling forms, checking content. No scripts to maintain, no complex setup.

Don't count integrations, count dashboards and alerts

Vendors often compete by saying how many extensions or quick start packs they have. The implicit promise is: more integrations equals better observability. But that misses the point. What really matters is the quality and coverage of dashboards and alerts that you actually use to maintain system health, prevent outages and improve user experience. At Coralogix we believe that what you do with integrations is far more important than how many you have.

Now in the API: History, Custom Monitors, and Subscribers

Last month, we introduced the StatusGator API v3, a complete overhaul of our API designed to give developers more flexibility, an improved data model, and deeper integration options for monitoring the status of hundreds of services. Today, we’re excited to share three major additions to v3: the Board History API, Custom Monitors API, and Status Page Subscribers API.