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Making logs work smarter: Evolving your observability strategy

Oct 20, 2025 By Matt Wimpelberg In Grafana
When you start building an observability stack, it’s natural to reach for logs first. They’re familiar, easy to generate, and often already part of a developer’s workflow. And sending logs to a centralized system feels like a quick win, too. Simply add a log shipper, and voila, your application is observable.
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Software Maintenance in 2025: How AI & Automation Are Redefining Support

Software Maintenance in 2025: How AI & Automation Are Redefining Support

Oct 20, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Software maintenance is no longer a reactive patching procedure in 2025. Rather, it is a predictive discipline that involves continuous enhancement and supports automation and AI. It helps in lowering toil and hardening release velocity without decreasing reliability. When you continue to consider maintenance as 'turning the lights on,' you are losing uptime, money and developer attention.
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Powering Mexico's Digital Future: Expanded Internet Observability with Catchpoint

Oct 17, 2025 By Gael Hernandez In Catchpoint
As of 2025, more than 110 million Mexicans are online, putting digital‐access penetration at roughly 83% of the population. Mexico is already one of Latin America’s anchor markets, leading the region in startup momentum, cloud adoption, and cross-border digital trade. A few days ago, CloudHQ announced a $4.6B investment in Mexico to open multiple datacenters. Yet even with this scale, service quality still varies dramatically across cities, states, and ISPs.
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From pillars to rings: How interconnected observability in Grafana Cloud optimizes performance and reduces telemetry waste

Oct 16, 2025 By Vasil Kaftandzhiev In Grafana
In observability, we’ve traditionally been taught to think in terms of pillars, namely logs, metrics, and traces (and more recently, profiles). But pillars are rigid and disconnected. They don’t reflect how modern systems actually work or how we troubleshoot in real time. So let’s change that.
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CriblCon 25 Keynote Livestream

Oct 15, 2025 By Cribl In Cribl
IT and security data professionals stand at a crossroads. The practices and technologies that have served you for the last ten years are at their breaking point, facing an onslaught of data growth and complexity that will only accelerate as AI goes mainstream. You have a choice. Stay earthbound or take your telemetry to the stratosphere and beyond.
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Baking in site reliability with observability and AI: How SpotOn uses Grafana Assistant to keep restaurants running

Oct 15, 2025 By Trevor Jones In Grafana
When you operate a restaurant, the last thing you want to do is shut your doors and turn away guests and staff because of some technology failure. And if you’re the one providing that tech, it’s your job to make sure that doesn’t happen. “For us, observability is about a lot more than just dashboards and alerts.
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APM vs Observability: Both-and, not either-or

Oct 14, 2025 By Leon Adato In Catchpoint
I'll start this, the third and final entry in my series on APM and Observability, which was originally inspired by my contribution to an APMdigest article, by once again pointing out that APM tools can be built with observability in mind. Many are, in fact. And the ones that aren’t don’t turn into a different type of tool. In my experience, it's more that there's a difference of mindset.
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Introducing Cribl Notebooks: Investigate, Visualize, and Share - All in One Tab

Oct 14, 2025 By Cribl In Cribl
Run every part of an investigation in one workspace with Cribl Search’s new Notebooks feature. Bring queries, visualizations, and annotations together to make sharing and collaboration easier. Speed up investigations and turn complex workflows into narratives anyone can follow.
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Observability in Fraud Detection: How Transaction Monitoring Tools Can Help Spot Money Laundering

Observability in Fraud Detection: How Transaction Monitoring Tools Can Help Spot Money Laundering

Oct 14, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In today's increasingly digital financial landscape, transaction monitoring has become a critical component of global fraud detection strategies. As financial crimes evolve in complexity, institutions must strengthen their ability to detect anomalies and uncover suspicious activity before it causes damage. Observability, a concept long used in IT and data operations is now emerging as a powerful approach for improving visibility into complex financial transactions.
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