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The five IT Asset Lifecycle Management phases

Master the complete journey of IT assets – from planning and procurement to deployment, maintenance, and retirement – so you can maximize value, reduce risk, and make smarter IT decisions. In this lecture, we break down the five IT Asset Lifecycle Management (ITALM) phases and explain how each step connects to the bigger picture. This session gives you a clear roadmap of the IT asset lifecycle, so you can see how every stage fits into a seamless management process.

Introducing Honeycomb Intelligence Canvas

Canvas is an AI-guided workspace inside Honeycomb that combines an AI assistant with an interactive notebook for visualizing query results and traces. You can ask a natural language question about your data and Canvas will immediately start exploring your traces, through multiple queries and other tools, to find the right next steps. Instead of having to write each query yourself, Canvas automatically proposes relational queries, comparisons, and visualizations that explain why an SLO fired or what changed after a deploy.

The Cost of Ignoring Expired SSL Certificates for Businesses

SSL certificates secure the digital backbone of businesses. They encrypt data, protect customer trust, and ensure compliance with strict regulations. Yet many companies still face the cost of ignoring expired SSL certificates every year. When a certificate expires, the consequences hit hard: websites go offline, users see security warnings, and revenues drop. Let's break down the risks, costs, and ways to prevent expired SSL certificates from damaging your business.

Guardrails and Gains: How Flyway Brings Stability to Cloud Migrations

Avoid the pitfalls of cloud database migration with Redgate Flyway. Learn how automation, schema discipline, rollback strategies, and traceability reduce risk and enable fast, compliant cloud deployments, with these insights from John Q. Martin, Technology Partner Manager at Redgate Software. Cloud migrations promise faster releases and more flexible scaling, but a poorly executed database migration will stop you from exploiting them.

APM vs Observability: Observing beyond APM

In my previous post I made a bold, sweeping statement that APM is not - in the most specific sense - a subset of observability. Still standing by it I stand by that because words matter and - like many "monitoring engineers" (IT folks who make monitoring and observability their specialty) - I, too, bear scars from the flame-wars on Twitter back in the 2020's where we fought internecine battles over the proper definition of (and number of pillars in) “observability”.

AI Reliability Insights: How to Build a Gremlin MCP Server

Gremlin’s Reliability Intelligence helps teams uncover the cause behind failure modes so they can move faster and improve reliability without sacrificing velocity. The new Gremlin MCP Server, part of Reliability Intelligence, gives you new ways to explore your data, giving you access to insights and recommendations to improve reliability and better run your systems using Gremlin. In this webinar, Gremlin CTO Sam Rossoff shows you how to integrate your favorite LLM and use plain language to query data, uncover insights, create dynamic dashboards, and more.

Debugging issues with Sentry's MCP

Turns out, this MCP thing is pretty solid. We've built the MCP server to tap into all the different areas of context within Sentry and make it easy to bring these into your editor client to help debug your application. Want to know the most fixable issues in your environment? Easy. Want to see your query performance for your backend? Just ask it.

Understanding OpenTelemetry Spans in Detail

Debugging errors in distributed systems can be a challenging task, as it involves tracing the flow of operations across numerous microservices. This complexity often leads to difficulties in pinpointing the root cause of performance issues or errors. OpenTelemetry provides instrumentation libraries in most programming languages for tracing.

Why Engineering Services from Gener8 Are a Game-Changer for Startup Success

Startups are powered by bold ideas. The kind you scribble on napkins, pitch to investors with passion, and imagine scaling into the next big thing. But here's the catch: ideas don't scale. Products do. And building products that are reliable, compliant, and scalable takes more than inspiration-it takes engineering muscle. That's where engineering services give startups the technical horsepower to turn ambitious concepts into market-ready products, without burning through time, budget, or team bandwidth.

Musk Challenges Apple-OpenAI Integration, Raising Questions on AI Competition

Elon Musk - via X Corp. and xAI - recently filed an antitrust suit in Texas. He's going after Apple and OpenAI. The claim? That Apple lets ChatGPT run deep inside iPhones and Macs, which may give Apple a nearmonopoly that hurts his own chatbot Grok and various other rivals. Musk is seeking billions in damages and a court order to stop the practice. The case arises while he still constantly talks about his early days at OpenAI, which he left after its commercial shift.