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Monitor SolarWinds in Grafana: Demo + Setup

Nov 19, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana
Matt from Grafana’s Enterprise Data Sources team demos the SolarWinds plugin: URL/credentials setup, TLS options, health check, and built-in dashboards. See how to query SolarWinds data with SWQL in Grafana and where to learn more (docs + SolarWinds SWQL resources). As of Nov 19, 2025, this is available in public preview in Grafana Cloud (including the free tier) and Grafana Enterprise.
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Making Your Business Resilient Against Cloudflare Like Outages

Nov 19, 2025 By Uma Mukkara In Harness
Cloudflare-like outages can cost your business a significant amount of money. This week’s Cloudflare global outage is a wake-up call for business resilience. You can stay resilient against such outages by regularly performing resilience testing and updating your application or infrastructure configurations.
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The metrics product we built worked - But we killed it and started over anyway

Nov 19, 2025 By David Rosenthal In Sentry
Two years ago, Sentry built a metrics product that worked great on paper. But when we dogfooded it, we realized it was not what our customers really needed. Two weeks before launch, we killed the whole thing. Here’s what we learned, why classical time-series metrics break down for debugging modern applications, and how we rebuilt the system from scratch.
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Introducing The Enhanced CloudZero Academy: Learn, Grow, And Level Up Your FinOps Skills

Nov 19, 2025 By Kunal Rao In CloudZero
If there’s one thing we’ve learned at CloudZero, it’s that success in FinOps isn’t just about having the right tools. It’s about knowing how to use them, and understanding the “why” behind every number, dimension, and dashboard.
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AWS Cost Categories Explained (How To Allocate AWS Spend Accurately)

Nov 19, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
If you’ve ever tried to make sense of your AWS bill, you know how fast things get messy. Different accounts, hundreds of services, random tags, and suddenly, no one can say for sure who’s spending what or why the total looks so high. It’s not that teams don’t care about costs — it’s that AWS billing data isn’t always easy to interpret. Finance wants accountability. Engineering wants visibility. And somewhere between the two, ownership disappears.
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Pastries with SREs: FinOps is to ROI as a coffee is to cannoli

Nov 19, 2025 By Elastic In Elastic
In this episode of Pastries and SREs, our hosts tackle one of the hardest questions observability leaders face: "How do you prove the ROI of observability?" This isn’t just about uptime or dashboards. It’s also about aligning observability with business outcomes, cloud cost savings, and FinOps metrics that matter to leadership.
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How to Onboard AWS & Azure Hosts in SolarWinds Observability

Nov 19, 2025 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds
Connecting your cloud infrastructure has never been easier. In this quick walkthrough, you’ll see how SolarWinds Observability natively integrates with AWS and Azure to onboard virtual machines and supported managed services—fast. Select your hyperscaler Click “Add Data” → Choose “Hosts” Follow simple steps to connect your cloud environment via API Whether you're running AWS EC2, Azure VMs, or other managed services, SolarWinds helps you get visibility in minutes.
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KubeCon North America 2025: OpenTelemetry Recap from Atlanta

Nov 19, 2025 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025 wrapped up in Atlanta last week, and it sure did feel like a big one for OpenTelemetry. Between Observability Day, the project updates, and the activity around the OpenTelemetry Observatory booth, you could feel how quickly the ecosystem is maturing.
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Get more from your AI chief of staff with these prompts for engineering leaders

Nov 19, 2025 By Cortex In Cortex
Engineering leaders face a constant barrage of questions that pull them away from strategic work. A team lead asks about scorecard compliance. A PM wants a status update on a migration. Someone needs incident trend data for a quarterly review. Each question is reasonable. Each requires context switching, digging through dashboards, or pinging someone on your team for a report. What if you could just ask?
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