Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Breaking siloes: How to use cross-store correlations with Grafana

Grafana is great at hopping between signals in its native backends (Grafana Loki, Grafana Mimir, Grafana Tempo). But your data doesn’t have to live there to get the same smooth workflow. Afterall, we don’t just pay lip service to our “big tent” philosophy—we want to meet all our users’ diverse needs, regardless of what kind of data you have or where you store it.

Coordinate large-scale engineering initiatives with IDP Campaigns

As organizations grow, engineering leaders often need to drive cross-team initiatives such as reducing cloud spend, upgrading runtimes, or strengthening security controls. Tracking this work can quickly become fragmented across spreadsheets, dashboards, and status meetings. Progress is hard to measure, accountability is unclear, and the impact of each effort can be difficult to demonstrate.

New Feature Friday: Understand & Improve Your DORA Performance with Cortex

This week on New Feature Friday, we’re highlighting two new releases that make it easier than ever to understand and improve your DORA performance: DORA Academy Course A guided learning experience that shows you how to use DORA Metrics and Cortex together to drive better engineering outcomes—without the data chaos. DORA Operational Readiness Scorecard An out-of-the-box template that benchmarks each service against DORA standards, giving teams an instant snapshot of where they stand and where to focus.

The next era of IT management with ManageEngine: What agentic AI will unlock

Agentic AI is generating a lot of buzz, but what does it actually do for IT teams? Join us as we showcase how the industry is evolving in the new era. What once took hours or days will soon take minutes—unlocking a new level of productivity and efficiency for IT operations. The foundation of this evolution? AI-driven contextual analytics. Agenda.

The Rise of Experience-Level Agreements (XLAs) in Practice: A Deep Dive into ITSM Transformation

For decades, the backbone of IT Service Management (ITSM) has been the Service-Level Agreement (SLA). While effective for tracking the nuts and bolts of IT delivery, SLAs have one critical blind spot: they say little about how users actually feel about their IT experiences. This is where Experience-Level Agreements (XLAs) and Digital Employee Experience (DEX) fill in the rest of the picture.

Data Observability: Build confidence in the data life cycle

Datadog Data Observability provides a complete solution with quality checks (e.g., volume, row changes, freshness), custom SQL-based monitors, anomaly detection, column-level lineage across systems like Snowflake and Tableau, full pipeline visibility, and targeted alerts when data issues arise.

The Hidden Cost of Untagged Cloud Resources for SMBs

Cloud computing is a powerful enabler of growth and agility for small and medium businesses (SMBs). However, untagged cloud resources are one of the primary challenges most SMBs face in cloud environments. These untagged resources lead to a lack of visibility and accountability over cloud spending, which leads to wasted budgets and cost overruns.

Icinga Notifications v0.2.0 Release

Some of you might have already heard about this at OSMC, or you may have received a release notification from GitHub already: our Icinga Notifications project made a step forward and we are happy to announce that version 0.2.0 is now available for you to try out. It addresses feedback that we have received for the previous versions with the most important changes highlighted below.