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Why IT Leaders Are Consolidating Observability Tools in 2026

Consolidation unifies your observability stack, readies it for AI, and paves the path to autonomous IT. Many IT leaders consider consolidation because of cost pressure or rising vendor spend. But the real challenge goes deeper. IT environments have become more complex, distributed, and noisy, making it difficult for fragmented tools to keep up.

Introducing The First Graylog Helm Chart Beta V1.0.0

Running Graylog on Kubernetes has been possible for a while, but let’s be honest: it usually involved a fair amount of DIY. Custom manifests, duct-taped values files, and more than one late-night kubectl describe pod. That changes today. We’re releasing the first-ever Graylog Helm chart for Kubernetes — now available in beta.

Ingress NGINX Project Is Retiring: A Step-by-Step Guide to Replacing the Ingress NGINX Controller

The Ingress NGINX Controller is approaching retirement, and teams need a clear path forward to manage Kubernetes ingress traffic securely and reliably. To make this transition easier, we’ve created a single, curated hub with all the relevant blogs and webinars. This hub serves as your one-stop resource for understanding the migration to Kubernetes Gateway API with Calico Ingress Gateway.

Delegated DNS validation: proving domain ownership without exposing credentials

It seems like every service wants proof you control your domain. Certificate authorities need it to issue certificates. Email platforms need it to authorize sending. Analytics needs it to gather data. Just add this magic TXT record to your DNS, wait for propagation, click verify. It works fine when it’s a one-time setup, but certificate lifetimes are dropping to 47 days, and you won’t be able to keep up on that schedule.

Resolve's Zero Ticket Video Series - Software Installation Request #itautomation #aiautomation

Software installs and access requests do not need tickets. In this Zero Ticket Video Series demo, see how RITA, Resolve’s AI-powered IT agent, automates a Jira access request end to end. RITA understands the request, validates role and policy, provisions temporary access, routes approvals automatically, and delivers full access once approved. No ticket queues. No manual handoffs. Just real resolution through agentic automation.

Telemetry Talks - Ep.1 - Observability and OpenTelemetry

In the first episode of Telemetry Talks, Diana talks with Jose, VictoriaMetrics Cloud Lead, about the practical origins of observability and how OpenTelemetry is shaping modern monitoring. They cover why observability became critical as systems moved from monoliths to microservices, how OpenTelemetry unifies traces, metrics, and logs while avoiding vendor lock-in, and how it integrates natively with VictoriaMetrics.

Building & Enforcing an AI Policy

Just like "cloud" in years past, the term "AI" has permeated just about every tech space and product. And although AI has plenty of business benefits, there are also plenty of risks in using AI, especially when it comes to sensitive business information. End users may not understand (or care) about the negative impacts of AI, which is where IT comes in. In this stream, you'll learn about how you can build an AI policy that works and how to enforce it so that users actually follow it!

ServiceNow Without the Ticket Hell

ServiceNow is the system of record for change and approvals in most regulated enterprises. But when evidence lives elsewhere — scattered across CI tools, scanners, tickets, and screenshots — approvals slow down and audits become painful. Developers waste hours chasing proof. CABs approve changes without confidence. Auditors reconstruct history months later. In this video, Matt Bailey shows what changes when evidence is produced continuously, directly from the delivery pipeline, and linked into ServiceNow workflows.

Evidence, Not Screenshots

In regulated environments, slow change is often blamed on process. In reality, it’s caused by missing, fragmented, or untrusted proof. Screenshots. Tickets. Manual approvals. Evidence assembled after the fact. In this video, we show what changes when compliance policies are embedded directly into release workflows — and when immutable, machine-readable evidence is captured automatically across CI/CD.

Monitor Arista VeloCloud SD-WAN performance with Datadog

As organizations grow their cloud environments and branch office networks, maintaining reliable connectivity and application performance becomes more complex. VeloCloud SD-WAN provides dynamic, policy-based routing to help ensure that your connectivity is dependable and cost-efficient, and that your applications perform consistently.