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From Reactive to Predictive: Preserving BESS Uptime at Scale

Mar 5, 2026 By Allyson Boate In InfluxData

Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) operate as revenue-generating grid assets that capture surplus electricity, deploy power during demand spikes, and support frequency control. By shifting energy across time, they stabilize grid conditions, enable renewable integration, and execute market dispatch commitments. When systems respond as designed, stored capacity becomes a flexible, monetizable supply. But BESS performance depends on precision and availability.

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Continuous Security Monitoring: The Practical Guide for Modern Ops Teams

Mar 5, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

If you've ever been on call during a "nothing changed... except everything" incident, you already understand the real problem with traditional security checks: they're snapshots. And snapshots are useless the moment your infrastructure shifts, a new SaaS tool gets approved, a developer spins up a service in a different region, or a vendor quietly exposes an admin portal to the internet. Modern environments don't stay still. So security can't, either.

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AWS Middle East data center strikes: 92 SaaS platforms report disruptions

Mar 4, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator

StatusGator analysis identifies 92 cloud services that publicly acknowledged disruptions tied to the AWS Middle East incident. Over the weekend, Amazon confirmed that drone strikes damaged AWS facilities in the Middle East, disrupting cloud infrastructure across the region. The strikes affected AWS regions in the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, causing outages and degraded performance across core cloud services including compute, storage, and databases.

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Centralizing Docker Logs for Observability and Security

Mar 4, 2026 By Jeff Darrington In Graylog

Most people can remember the old game of telephone, the stream of whispered sentences or phrases across a group of kids. At each transmission, a different piece of information gets lost or misheard, leaving the last person with an incomplete or incomprehensible statement. Managing Docker logs can feel the same way, especially when an error message is lost or an error message lacks context.

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How does AI enhance search?

Mar 4, 2026 By Elastic In Elastic

Explore how artificial intelligence enhances search engines through semantic understanding, vector embeddings, and contextual retrieval. Learn how AI-powered search delivers faster and more accurate results. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

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Key learnings from the 2026 State of DevSecOps study

Mar 4, 2026 By Kennedy Toomey In Datadog

We recently released the 2026 State of DevSecOps study, in which we analyzed tens of thousands of applications and their respective supply chain and build system dependencies. Our research revealed trends in security posture and best practices across the software development life cycle.

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Setting up Ping (ICMP) Check

Mar 4, 2026 By Uptime Website Monitoring In uptime

In this video, we’ll walk you through on how to set up and configure your Ping ICMP check in Uptime.com.

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The Spark Avengers Unite: Dispatches on the FUTURE of IT (w/ Matt, Moe & Denis)

Mar 4, 2026 By Nexthink In Nexthink

Tom assembles the “Spark Avengers” for a deep dive into the most talked-about innovation in IT: Nexthink Spark, the personal AI agent for every employee. Joined by Moe Haidar, Denis Schertenleib and Matt Rose, the team unpacks how Spark evolved from early LLM experiments into an enterprise-ready, autonomous IT agent already delivering 70%+ first contact resolution. From printers and frozen cameras to complex root-cause analysis, Spark is transforming support from reactive to proactive.

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Is your search bar your competitor's best salesperson?

Mar 4, 2026 By Jeremy Pell In Elastic

New Australian research reveals poor website search is costing businesses revenue as AI raises the bar.

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Skills vs. MCP: You're probably reaching for the wrong one

Mar 4, 2026 By David Girvin In Sumo Logic

Everyone is adding Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers to everything right now. And I get it. MCP is clean. It’s standardized. You write a server, expose some tools, and suddenly your LLM can query your log platform, pull a dashboard, and fire an alert. It feels like the right abstraction. But I’ve watched teams at serious companies burn weeks building MCP integrations for workflows that should have been skills, and build skills for things that genuinely needed MCP.

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