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How to run checks on internal services with Grafana Cloud Synthetic Monitoring

Many critical services run inside private networks, where traditional monitoring tools and practices can’t offer full visibility. This makes it difficult to validate service availability and performance before problems impact your users. Synthetic Monitoring — a Grafana Cloud solution that helps you proactively monitor the performance of your applications and services — addresses this gap with a feature known as private probes.

When ConfigMaps Hit Limits: Migrating to CRDs

Over the past few years, Kubex has evolved from a cloud optimization product into a Kubernetes-centric solution, shifting its focus from cost and waste visibility to fully automated resource optimization. As that evolution happened, one of the earliest design decisions we had made began to show its limits: how the product was configured.

Unit Testing in CI/CD: How to Accelerate Builds Without Sacrificing Quality | Harness Blog

Smart test selection, parallel test runs, and intelligent caching can all speed up builds without sacrificing code quality. Fast, focused, and separate unit tests are very important for quick development. They give you feedback right away and make it easier to refactor with confidence. Unit tests are a quick and cheap way to find logic errors, but they can't check how different parts work together. For full coverage, use them with integration tests and end-to-end tests.

Top Continuous Integration Metrics Every Platform Engineering Leader Should Track | Harness Blog

Track build duration, queue time, success rate, and cost per build to directly improve developer productivity, control costs, and enhance delivery reliability. Standardize pipeline metadata and automate metric collection to turn raw CI data into actionable insights across teams, services, and cost centers. Pair metrics with intelligent caching, optimized testing, and build acceleration to reduce build times and operational costs while maintaining security standards.

What is DEX Ops?

For decades, IT operations have been built around incidents, SLAs, and ticket closure rates. Success has been defined by how quickly tickets are resolved and whether service levels are met. But the modern digital workplace has changed. Employee productivity, digital adoption, collaboration quality, and business performance depend on far more than ticket metrics. A device that “works” but performs poorly still erodes productivity.

How to Create and Manage Incidents in Uptime.com

Learn how to create and manage incidents on your Uptime.com Status Page to keep your subscribers informed about service disruptions and maintenance events in real-time. In this tutorial, we'll cover understanding incident statuses (Investigating, Identified, Monitoring, Resolved, and more), three ways to create a new incident, configuring incident details and timelines, adding updates with Markdown formatting, managing and editing incidents, notifying Status Page subscribers, and using the REST API for incident management.

What Agentic AI Is Really Made Of (Most People Miss This)

Agentic AI isn’t just an LLM. Without the right context, it gives generic answers. This is the component that makes its decisions actually useful. Additional Resources: About Elastic Elastic, the Search AI Company, enables everyone to find the answers they need in real time, using all their data, at scale. Elastic’s solutions for search, observability, and security are built on the Elastic Search AI Platform — the development platform used by thousands of companies, including more than 50% of the Fortune 500.

What "Open Source" actually means in 2026

What does "Open Source" really mean in the age of AI? In the conclusion of her session at Civo Navigate India, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock shares a fundamental truth for the global tech community. True openness is not about being local; it's about global collaboration and ensuring that technology is accessible for any purpose, without friction. As we build the next decade of innovation, the goal is to build better, together, across the planet.

Why my Azure bill keeps spiking (and how to fix it)

Noticed a sudden spike in your Azure bill? Unexpected Azure cost increases are often caused by hidden usage, overprovisioned resources, scaling changes, or limited cost visibility. In this video, we explain why Azure costs spike, how to identify Azure cost anomalies early, and what steps you can take to prevent budget surprises. Take control of your Azure spend with smarter, proactive cost management.