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Over and over, we’ve seen that teams who invest in adding rich, relevant context to their telemetry end up debugging faster and collaborating more effectively during incidents. Getting meaningful context added can feel like a big cross-team project, but some of the highest-leverage improvements don’t require app code changes or coordination across services.

When I started using Playwright, there was a single command that blew me away. I immediately became (and still am) a huge Playwright Codegen fanboy. Playwright's codegen command opens up a browser window, and whatever you do in this window will be recorded. Navigating URLs, clicking links, and filling out form elements—the Playwright inspector records all your actions and generates a Playwright test for you. Magic!

You’ve instrumented your LangChain app, and traces are now flowing into Last9. Now the issues are visible: API costs are crossing $200/day, average response times exceed 3 seconds, and performance degrades under 100 concurrent users. A single tool call adds over 2 seconds. Bloated context windows are pushing up token usage, wasting $50/day. Here’s how to use trace data to identify and fix these inefficiencies, systematically and at scale.

Adding Grafana dashboards directly into your app lets users see monitoring data without switching tabs or tools. Using an iframe to embed Grafana does work, but it brings along some tricky authentication and security issues that aren’t always obvious at first. In this blog, we’ll go over the practical ways to embed Grafana dashboards from easy public snapshots to secure, private dashboards that need authentication.

Over the past few years, Platform Engineering has taken off as more and more as enterprise organisations adopt the practice of creating a centralised, self-service interface for developers to access the tools they need in order for them to do the job they were meant to do: build amazing software. At the heart of every Golden Path lies the ability to reliably produce, store, and consume build artifacts, from container images to internal libraries.

Earlier this year, OpenAI’s CEO Sam Altman admitted something that should make every engineering leader pause: they’re “currently losing money” on ChatGPT Pro subscriptions, which run $200 per month. Let that sink in. A company charging two hundred dollars a month for AI access — 10 times what most SaaS products dare to ask — is still bleeding cash on every user. This isn’t a pricing problem. It’s a physics problem.

LDI Connect is taking its managed IT services to the next level by adding Martello’s Vantage DX platform to its toolkit. This move is all about giving clients a smoother, more reliable Microsoft 365 and Teams experience … and it couldn’t come at a better time. By integrating Vantage DX, LDI Connect can now proactively monitor clients’ Microsoft environments.

One of the biggest challenges in frontend development is understanding how users actually experience your application. Slow load times, layout shifts, and a slow response to user interactions can quietly degrade the user experience if they go unnoticed. This is where Grafana Cloud Frontend Observability comes in. Frontend Observability is a hosted service for real user monitoring (RUM) that provides immediate, clear, and actionable insights into the end user experience of web applications.

Most MSPs don’t think much about DNS—until something breaks. A record is deleted, an MX entry is misconfigured, or a zone is out of sync. Suddenly, your client’s email is bouncing, their site is down, and your phone is ringing. The problem? DNS issues are easy to miss. They don’t always trigger alerts, logs, or tickets. But when they surface, you’re the one your client calls first.