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How to Do Azure Cost Allocation by Team or Department

Learn how to allocate Azure costs across departments and get a clear view of who is spending what. In this video, we’ll show you practical ways to track and allocate Azure costs by department using Azure cost management practices. You’ll learn how to organize cloud spend, assign costs to teams or business units, improve cost visibility, and make Azure cost discussions easier between finance, engineering, and IT teams.

How does fragmented telemetry affect an AI system's ability to reason what's really happening?

Fragmented telemetry limits what AI can understand. When logs, metrics, and traces remain siloed, AI sees individual signals instead of the full story. That can lead to incorrect conclusions and unexpected outcomes. This is where AI observability matters. Virtana connects telemetry across the stack, giving AI the context it needs to correlate signals, understand dependencies, and identify what is really happening.

Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 19 - A Cribl Grab bag: Guard, API/SDK, Insights, and FinOps

In our penultimate episode of the series we try to hit all the things that didn’t fit anywhere else - Cribl Guard, the API/SDK, Insights, and the FinOps center. By the time the month is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed more caffeinated beverages than is strictly appropriate...

Who Is Actually Qualified to Oversee AI

Who should actually be trusted to oversee AI? As frontier AI systems become more powerful, the question isn't just whether we need more oversight — it's who is actually qualified to provide it. Adam Arellano, Martin Reynolds, and Bryan D. Payne debate whether governments, third-party evaluators, academics, former frontier-lab employees, or independent organizations can realistically hold companies like OpenAI and Anthropic accountable.

Introducing Selector Foundry: Agentic NetOps

Network operations teams have heard plenty about AI this year. Most of it answers the alert in front of it, then hands the rest of the incident back to an engineer. Someone still has to correlate the evidence, find the cause, prepare the fix, and prove it held. This week, we announced Selector Foundry, the agentic NetOps solution built into the Selector platform. Foundry adds a team of specialized AI agents on top of the full-stack observability and AIOps foundation our customers already run.

From SOCI Compliance to Continuous Infrastructure: How Puppet Helps Protect Critical Infrastructure

Australia’s critical infrastructure landscape has changed significantly. The Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (SOCI Act) has evolved from a framework focused primarily on identifying critical assets and reporting incidents into a broader risk-management and operational-resilience regime. The 2024 reforms reinforced that direction, increasing the focus on the systems, data, and technology dependencies that underpin Australia’s essential services.

Transaction Check Basics in less than 3 minutes

In this video, we explore the basics of Transaction Checks on Uptime.com, an advanced multi-step monitoring tool for website elements. Learn how to create customized scripts to mimic user actions such as visiting a site, filling out forms, and clicking buttons. We walk through a step-by-step guide on setting up a Transaction Check to monitor a login process, including navigating to a URL, validating HTTP status codes, and using browser developer tools to configure field entries. Discover different monitoring intervals and tips for organizing your checks with tags and location settings.

The Human Side of Innovation: Sheetal Kalra on Trust, Simplicity, and SolarWinds in Africa

"Channel is the heartbeat of any vendor conversation...if your product is not good, the channel is not going to be doing the miracle." In this episode of SolarWinds World Tour Conversations, we sit down with Sheetal Kalra, Regional Channel Manager for META, to discuss why a strong channel ecosystem is essential for bringing in strong customers. We explore the technology-driven nature of channel sales, the 2026 modifications to simplify the Partner Program, and how partners are successfully navigating network and observability challenges for their clients.