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Business metrics in Grafana Cloud: Get an AI assist to help securely analyze your data

For today's modern businesses, the data landscape demands security and flexibility. You need to connect your observability platform to rich, proprietary datasets that often reside in private networks without compromising security or managing complex network infrastructure. You may also face an extra layer of complexity in order to effectively query and visualize that data. Luckily, modern artificial intelligence tools have made these previously complicated processes much simpler.

Introducing CertKit: SSL Certificate Automation for the Rest of Us

We’ve been quietly solving a problem that most teams haven’t hit yet, but they’re about to. SSL certificate lifetimes are dropping to 47 days. If you’re managing certificates manually today, you have a very short window before that becomes a real operational problem. We know, because it happened to us first.

Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0: Proactive Visibility. Trusted Security.

Announcing Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 Modern networks are more complex and more exposed than ever. From hybrid infrastructure and distributed devices to expiring certificates and tightened security requirements, network and IT teams are under constant pressure to keep everything running smoothly while reducing risk. Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 is built for that reality.

The Art of Scaling: How to Determine the Right Number of Apache Kafka Partitions

Apache Kafka partition count isn't just a number—it defines parallelism, ordering, and operational complexity. Learn the formula to balance throughput requirements with maintenance costs, avoid common anti-patterns, and find your 'Goldilocks' number for production-ready performance.

Closing the Mobile Visibility Gap: Extending DEX to Mobile

In 2026, I think it’s safe to say that most mobile devices in enterprise organizations aren’t purchased just for their ability to make calls. And for millions of employees, especially frontline workers, their primary device isn’t even a laptop anymore - it’s a smartphone or tablet. Yet, mobile device insights have largely remained a blind spot for IT.