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Cisco & Auvik: Total Visibility and Control for Your Network with Auvik

Managing modern networks is complicated, and it’s easy for critical Cisco gear to quietly hit End-of-Sale (EOS) or Last Date of Support (LDOS) without anyone noticing. That can open the door to serious risks, technical debt, and compliance issues. Manual tracking and scattered tools just can’t keep up anymore. Watch this video to see how to stay ahead: Save Money and Reduce Headaches: Lower costs and tackle technical debt with smarter lifecycle management for your Cisco hardware.

Pastries with SREs: No compromises on cost-effective observability or donuts.

In this episode of Pastries and SREs, we dig into how vendor lock-in and sky-high observability costs are forcing teams to choose between coverage and budget, AND why you shouldn’t have to settle. With donuts in hand, we explore how to take back control of your observability strategy by making it cost-effective, comprehensive, and flexible.

Performance testing best practices: How to prepare for peak demand with Grafana Cloud k6

For many organizations, periods of high customer activity are anything but relaxing. Events like Black Friday, product launches, or major sales can put intense strain on the software and infrastructure systems that support a company’s web applications. Without proactive performance testing, these moments can quickly turn into poor user experiences and lost revenue.

Harness Commitment Orchestrator: A Modernized FinOps Experience

Harness has modernized Commitment Orchestrator to give FinOps teams a clearer, faster, and more intelligent way to manage cloud commitments. The redesigned experience unifies visibility across RIs, Savings Plans, on-demand, and Spot usage, with expanded metrics and streamlined workflows for smarter decisions. Built on a foundation for AI-powered insights, it helps teams optimize spend with greater confidence and less manual effort.

How to Manage Grafana Access Groups for Team Control

Managing team access in Grafana can be tricky—especially as your organization grows. That’s where Grafana access groups (also known as Limited Access Groups in Hosted Graphite) come in. They allow you to define groups of dashboards and restrict which team members can access them. If you’re using Hosted Graphite with Grafana dashboards, this feature helps you organize teams, maintain data privacy, and simplify access control—all while giving users just the permissions they need.

Customer Corner: Driving Innovation at Scale with Kyle Hill, CTO, ANS Group

At LogicMonitor’s Senior Leadership Team Offsite in July, I sat down for a candid conversation with Kyle Hill, CTO of ANS Group. As a longtime LogicMonitor customer and leader of a 700+ person tech powerhouse, Kyle offered sharp insights into scaling infrastructure, unlocking AI-driven value, and what true partnership looks like in today’s MSP world. Here’s an edited and condensed version of our conversation.

Weaving AI into the fabric of the company | incident.io

At incident.io, we’ve spent the past year shifting how we work to incorporate the AI into both how we build and what we build. The result? AI has become a fundamental pillar of our company. This is the story of how we built reliable AI for reliability itself — reshaping how teams manage and resolve incidents. From early experiments to a company-wide culture of building with AI, this is how we’re redefining incident response for the future.