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From Observability to Visibility: Why Tech Teams Should Treat Photos Like Production Assets

Modern operations is obsessed with one word: visibility. We instrument services, centralize logs, trace requests, and tune alerts because what we cannot see, we cannot reliably improve. The same pattern shows up outside the stack, in a place most teams ignore until it hurts: how people show up online. If you work in DevOps, SRE, ITSM, platform engineering, or cloud, you already know the downstream cost of "good enough." A slightly messy dashboard becomes a slow incident response. A vague runbook becomes tribal knowledge. A weak alert strategy becomes pager fatigue.

The Key Benefits of Checklist Driven Processes

Most businesses already have processes, even if they are not written down. They exist in people's heads, in half-finished documents, in Slack messages, or in the way "things have always been done." The problem is that invisible processes are fragile. They break when someone is busy, stressed, new to the role, or unavailable. Over time, this leads to inconsistency, mistakes, and frustration on both sides of the business.

Transaction Check Best Practices

Welcome back to Uptime.com! In this video, we explore best practices for configuring Transaction Checks to simulate user actions on your website. Learn how to build reliable scripts with a series of commands and validators using our no-code Transaction Check Recorder or your developer tools. We cover essential tips like keeping checks streamlined, using 'wait for' commands to ensure element readiness, and validating URL transitions. Follow along as we set up a simple 7-step check to validate the Uptime.com domain health tool.

VPN Connection Monitoring: Performance & Availability

For a growing number of organizations, the VPN is no longer a peripheral security control. It is the network. Remote employees authenticate through it. Contractors reach internal tools through it. Administrators access cloud consoles through it. Entire application stacks depend on encrypted tunnels to function at all. When VPN connectivity degrades, productivity collapses quietly and unevenly—often without a clear signal pointing to the root cause.

How to Choose the Best Website Monitoring Tool for Your Company

Selecting the right website monitoring solution is a critical business decision that directly impacts your operational resilience, customer satisfaction, and bottom line. Downtime, slow load times, or broken user journeys can lead to lost revenue, damaged brand trust, and poor search engine rankings. That’s why website monitoring is no longer optional, it’s a strategic necessity.

EP #3: Cloud, Kubernetes, and the Evolution of DevOps - The Open Source Observability Podcast

Kris Buytaert is the Co-founder of Inuits, O11y, and ‘DevOps Days,’ an internationally-attended series of DevOps events. He is a passionate advocate of Free and Open Source Software, and is accredited by the community as being a founding instigator of the DevOps movement. In this episode we trace the history of the DevOps movement from its intersection with open source and Agile, through the evolution of Cloud technologies and tools such Docker and Kubernetes, to present day best practices for CI/CD, monitoring, and observability.

How Grafana Mimir Cut Costs 25%: Kafka and WarpStream at Massive Scale | Big Tent S3E3

Big Tent hosts Mat Ryer and Tom Wilkie talk with Marco Pracucci (Grafana Labs), Cyril Tovena (Grafana Labs), and Ryan Worl (WarpStream/Confluent) about building Sigyn (the internal code name for Mimir’s next-gen architecture), public, open source, and designed for lower TCO and stronger reliability. They cover gapless consumption, predictable partitioning, new “block builder” components, and the practical realities of migrating “mid-flight.”

Is Claude Code Spying for OpenAI? #speedscale #anthropic #openai #claude #codingagent

While analyzing network traffic, we found huge amounts of telemetry including chat snippets, being sent to statsig.anthropic.com. The irony? Statsig was recently acquired by OpenAI. In this video, we use proxymock to intercept the traffic and show you exactly what’s being sent from your terminal to Anthropic (and technically, OpenAI’s infrastructure).