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How to use SQL to learn more about your Grafana usage

Wilfried Roset is an engineering manager who leads an SRE team, and he is also a Grafana Champion. Wilfried currently works at OVHcloud, where he focuses on prioritizing sustainability, resilience, and industrialization to guarantee customers satisfaction. Grafana needs a database to store all its objects, such as users, dashboards, or even data sources. Each time a user creates a dashboard, it results in a new row created in the database.

Digital Literacy Skills Everyone Who Writes Essays Needs in 2025

In 2025, the art of essay writing has shifted far beyond pen and paper. Whether you're a student racing against a deadline or a professional crafting a research proposal, your success hinges on more than grammar and structure. Today's essay writers must master digital literacy to navigate evolving tools, sources, and expectations. It's not just about what you say; it's also about how fluently you work in digital spaces to say it.

What Every Teen Should Know About Their Own Mental Health

The teenage years are a time of significant growth, self-discovery, and change. This period can bring both exciting opportunities and emotional challenges that shape your overall well-being and future. Understanding and nurturing your mental health during this stage is essential to building resilience, managing stress, and fostering a healthy sense of self. This guide offers practical advice and supportive strategies to help you recognize your emotional needs and take proactive steps toward mental and emotional wellness.

Supporting a Safe Return: Drug Testing Protocols in the Technology Sector

The technology sector is known for rapid innovation, agile workflows, and competitive performance standards. With such high expectations and constant change, maintaining a safe and productive environment is critical, particularly when addressing employee substance use and the process of returning to the workplace after a violation. While many assume drug testing is more relevant in industries with physical labor or machinery, its relevance in tech is rising as companies recognize the impact of substance use on productivity, mental clarity, and team dynamics.

Top tips: The secret to a better workday? It's in the little things

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what’s trending in the tech world and list ways to explore these trends. This week, we’ll see how fixing small inconveniences at work can make things easier and help us get more done. “It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about the most lasting change.” – Queen Elizabeth II It's the little changes in life that bring lasting effects. Small, incremental improvements often add to meaningful comfort over time.

Migrating to Citrix Cloud Without Breaking the Business

Not every migration is about rushing to the cloud. More often, it’s about timing, precision, and ensuring that end-users remain unaware of any underlying change. The goal isn’t just to modernize. It’s to do so without disrupting what’s already working. One of our customers, a global feed company with over 1,000 daily Citrix users, reached out to us for guidance.

AI-driven alert triage and root cause analysis (RCA) that proactively responds to production alerts

Watch AI transform alert management in real-time. This technical demonstration compares manual alert investigation with AI alert investigation. It shows how AI agents automatically investigate production alerts, correlate telemetry across distributed systems, and identify root cause, faster and with more insights than manual processes. Watch and learn how to shift your team from reactive firefighting to proactive system reliability management with agentic AI.

Using GreptimeDB as Prometheus Data Lake in Coroot

Coroot is excited to feature an editorial from the open source observability database GreptimeDB as an Open Source Spotlight. We hope to improve the work of our global community of SREs and DevOps professionals by sharing exciting projects like GreptimeDB, which make innovation accessible for everyone through the freedom of open source.

Navigating the Growth of Digital Infrastructure in Brazil with Carlos Eduardo Sedeh

What does it take to build a telecom network that actually listens? In this episode of Uplink, Carlos Eduardo Sedeh, CEO of SAMM (formerly Megatelecom), joins host Michael Reid to explore how a flat-fee dial-up service launched in 1999 laid the groundwork for a customer-first telecom strategy that continues to reshape Brazil’s enterprise connectivity landscape.