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IT Monitoring News | January '25 Edition

Welcome to our January edition of the NiCE bi-monthly newsletter! We’re thrilled to share the latest updates, insights, and events to keep you ahead in the ever-evolving IT monitoring landscape, primarily revolving around Microsoft System Center. Whether you’re looking to stay current with new features, understand best practices, or network with fellow professionals, our newsletter has you covered.
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Engineering AI systems with Model Context Protocol

On November 26, 2024, Anthropic released the Model Context Protocol (MCP)-an open standard for data exchange between applications and data sources. MCP simplifies how Large Language Models (LLMs) interact with external tools and data, addressing the challenges developers face when integrating AI into their systems. At Raygun, we've been exploring agentic workflows to improve productivity and saw real potential in MCP. This post will explain how MCP works, what we've implemented, and where we think the standard is headed.

New Year, New Strategies: Website Monitoring Trends for 2025

As we start the new year and the world of websites and web applications continues to grow, it’s important to understand how you want to connect to your customers and achieve growth. To stay competitive in the world of websites, it’s important to embrace all the latest website monitoring trends and strategies.

Navigating 2025: Turning Uncertainty into Opportunity

The end of the year for technology companies always brings with it a raft of new predictions for the coming twelve months. Many predictions, breathlessly delivered, suggest a tenuous future can be conveniently avoided with the appropriate application of vendors’ products. Using predictions as a way to shill products is boring, and it misses an opportunity to help enterprises plan for the coming year. After all, predictions don’t have to be correct to be useful.

Centralized Log Management for the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)

The financial services industry has been a threat actor target since before digital transformation was even a term. Further, the financial services organizations find themselves continuously under scrutiny. As members of a highly regulated industry, these companies need to comply with various laws to ensure that they effectively protect sensitive data.

Azure Budget Monitoring Tools to Empower Cost Efficiency

Cloud adoption brings agility and scalability, but without effective cost monitoring, cloud expenses can spiral out of control. Microsoft Azure offers robust budget monitoring tools to help businesses manage and optimize cloud spending. These tools enable real-time tracking, forecasting, and alerting for Azure budgets, ensuring efficient cost management and avoiding unexpected expenses.

OpenTelemetry and Grafana Labs: what's new and what's next in 2025

As the new year rolls in, it’s a great time to reflect and think big. What were some of your notable achievements in 2024, and what are your goals for 2025? We often do this in our personal lives — but why not apply this same line of thinking to observability, as well?