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A little while ago, I wrote a piece with the provocative title, "The End of the Network Engineer as We Know It?" It struck a chord because it articulated a shift many of us feel in our bones: the ground is moving beneath our feet. The traditional, well-defined corporate network has dissolved into a sprawling, borderless ecosystem of public clouds, SaaS platforms, and the vast, untamed internet. The old role, focused on the care and feeding of devices within our four walls, is no longer sufficient.

The launch of Puppet Edge this week could not have been more timely. Within a day of its general availability, Cisco disclosed a vulnerability in its IOS and IOS XE software, followed almost immediately by an Event Response detailing two additional critical-severity CVEs affecting its firewalls.

As organizations navigate increasingly complex tech environments, unified observability practices have become essential. That was one of the main takeaways from Grafana Labs Co-founder Anthony Woods’ recent appearance on “Tech Keys by by Mercari India,” a podcast hosted by Vaibhav Khurana, Head of Platform Engineering at Mercari India.

I recently joined the Developer Advocacy team here at Grafana Labs, and have been exploring ways to accelerate my Grafana learning journey. Like many others in the Grafana community, my introduction to the open source project happened when I needed a way to easily visualize data that resided in external databases, mostly using SQL queries.

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