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GitKraken MCP: Give Copilot & Cursor the Git Context They're Missing

AI assistants like Cursor and GitHub Copilot are fun to play with. They autocomplete code, refactor functions, and occasionally argue with you about whether you really needed that semicolon. But the moment you ask them to do something grounded in your repo, say, “start work on JIRA-123”… you hit a wall. They don’t know your branching conventions. They don’t know how your team links issues.

Top 3 MSP dashboards compared: SquaredUp, BrightGauge and MSPbots

Managed Service Providers (MSPs) live and die by their data. Externally, clients expect clear reporting, fast responses, and visible proof of value. Internally, smooth operations and low overheads are essential to business success. But with so many tools, key data is scattered across multiple systems – PSA, RMM, cloud services, ticketing, monitoring, finance – and that causes blind spots. Dashboards fix this problem by consolidating data into a single view.

Telemetry Now Teaser: "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?"

Why is it so difficult to answer the age-old question CFOs are asking, "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?" Complex billing structures and cost modeling are only part of it. Lauren Basile joins Phillip Gervasi to discuss turning network telemetry into financial insight in the latest episode of Telemetry Now.

Certificate Rotation with Progress-powered Solutions

Don’t let expired certificates put your organization at risk! Progress WhatsUp Gold makes it easy to discover, manage, and automate certificate lifecycles across your network. With powerful automation from Progress Infrastructure solutions, you can rotate and manage certificates without a manual routine to maintain compliance and security. Schedule updates, push certificates to thousands of nodes and maintain governance with built-in traceability. Experience simplicity, scalability and seamless integration with Progress-powered solutions.

Mute timing vs. silences in Grafana Alerting: How to pick the best fit for your use case

Have you ever been in a situation where know your team is going to run their weekly maintenance window and you silence your notifications to prevent a flood of false positives from pinging your inbox? If you are associated with a team that uses any type of alert system, you know how easily alert fatigue can happen. The incessant and unpredictable (or even, at times, predictable) pings, emails, and notification alerts can drive even the most serene worker totally batty.

Understanding Variable Costs In The Cloud

Cloud costs don’t wait for your finance team to catch up. They spike on product launches, dip when usage slows, and sometimes blow past forecasts overnight. Every container spun up, every gigabyte stored, and every terabyte transferred adds to the tab. The main culprit is often variable costs. In this guide, we’ll break down how variable costs affect budgeting and the strategies you can use to turn cost variability into a competitive advantage.

How to Push Prometheus Metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud with the OpenTelemetry Collector

In this video, you’ll learn how to scrape Prometheus endpoints with the OpenTelemetry Collector’s Prometheus receiver and send metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll walk through configuring three common data sources (a Python Flask app, node_exporter for host metrics, and the NGINX Prometheus exporter), show how to enrich metrics with resource attributes, and build simple charts in Splunk Observability Cloud. You’ll see how centralized scraping and consistent tagging make it easy to manage and visualize Prometheus metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud.