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Forget user experience, the age of user extraction is here

Does it ever feel like the days of simple, user- and pocket-friendly digital services are now a bygone era? Is everything just a reminder of how things used to be better? Dramatic language and rose-tinted glasses aside, you would be naive not to notice that service providers are becoming increasingly predatory, especially when it comes to monetization. Ads are everywhere, privacy policies are questionable at best, and costs keep rising.

New: More control with Recovery Notices

We’ve added a new notification option to give you more control over how and when you get alerted: Recovery Notices. Until now, notifications were primarily focused on incidents – letting you know when something goes wrong. But we heard from many of you that not all alerts are equally useful. While some teams want full visibility across the entire lifecycle of an incident, others are mainly concerned with when a service goes down, not when it comes back up.

Moving Beyond SolarWinds: Building a Modern Observability Strategy

For years, platforms like SolarWinds have been a standard in IT environments. They helped teams answer a fundamental question: are systems up or down? That approach worked well when environments were more contained and predictable. The challenge is that most environments no longer operate that way. Hybrid infrastructure, cloud services, and tightly interconnected applications have changed what “visibility” needs to mean.

The Regional Data Centre Revolution Powered by AI Demand

London still hosts the biggest concentration of UK data centre capacity, but the centre of gravity is starting to move. AI workloads are changing the infrastructure maths, pushing power, space and planning considerations up the decision list. That is exactly where regional locations start to look like the sensible option. Government data shows how concentrated the market remains: as of autumn 2024, London is estimated at 1,048MW of colocation IT load. Compare that with 44MW in the East of England, 17MW in the North East and 30MW in Scotland. The gap is huge, yet it is not a permanent advantage.
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From Microsoft SCOM to Dashboards

System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) remains one of the most capable on-premises monitoring platforms for Microsoft environments. However, as IT operations evolve toward real-time observability and self-service insights, traditional SCOM reporting and consoles can feel restrictive. This whitepaper explores practical ways to extend and modernize your SCOM visualizations using today's leading dashboarding technologies - including SquaredUp, Grafana, Power BI, and Azure Workbooks.

Release v2.10: Secrets Management, Nagios Plugin Collector, Azure Monitor, and more

What’s New in Netdata v2.10 In this release, Netdata brings powerful new capabilities to help you monitor, troubleshoot, and understand your infrastructure faster without complexity. In this video, we walk through the key updates: Secrets Management – Securely manage sensitive configuration data Nagios Plugins Collector – Extend monitoring using existing Nagios plugins Azure Monitor – Bring Azure metrics into Netdata for unified visibility.

Seeing the Bigger Picture: What technical leaders can learn from evolving monitoring needs

A preview of leadership insights shaped by real-world experience Estate-wide clarity for leaders who still need technical depth As data estates grow, the role of technical leaders changes. Visibility becomes harder. Communication becomes more important. Decisions have broader consequences. Many leaders start their careers focused on the technical details.

What Does Load Testing Measure? (Top 5 Performance Metrics) | Resilience Testing | Harness

Before you deploy, you need to know if your application can handle real-world traffic. In this video, we break down the 5 essential load testing metrics: Response Time (latency), Throughput (requests per second), Error Rates (system stability), Resource Utilization (CPU/Memory bottlenecks), and User Concurrency. Whether you're into Software Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, understanding these System Design fundamentals is the only way to prevent server crashes and ensure Software Scalability.

What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q1 2026? Logs, MCP Server, Better Alerting, and... a Secret Project

Q1 2026 has been one of our most eventful quarters yet for VictoriaMetrics Cloud. We shipped something we have been building towards for a long time, crossed a few infrastructure milestones, and started clearing the path for what is coming next to the most performant observability stack.