Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

How ELSER Transforms One Keyword into Better Search Results

In this session, we’ll show you how Elastic's ELSER takes a single token like _“Terminator”_ and expands it into semantically related terms such as _software, alien, computer technology,_ and _Connor_ (for John Connor). This makes search results more relevant, even when the exact keyword isn’t used.

Network Visualization: 4 Ways to Visualize Computer Networks

Network visualization is the process of visually representing networks of connected entities, like devices, data flows, or relationships, using nodes and links. This technique helps in understanding complex data, identifying patterns, and improving network management by providing a clear visual overview of the network’s structure and behavior.

Migrate to Bitbucket Pipelines from Jenkins

In this video, we briefly discuss developer experience before diving into the details of setting up and running a simple CI/CD system using Jenkins and AWS EC2. Using tightly integrated, cloud-native products like Bitbucket Pipelines provides a better developer experience than using self-hosted on-prem tools like Jenkins. With self-hosted on-prem, developers spend less time building software and solving problems for their customers and more time maintaining their on-prem software.

If you want to monitor reality, you have to monitor your users' perspective.

Not from your data center. Not from your internal network. Not from your controlled environments. Real users are on hotel Wi-Fi, public LTE, spotty networks, global cloud providers. To understand their experience, your monitoring needs to reflect their reality: location, device, network, context.

Device Guardian in Action | Zebra

Do you want to learn how to use Device Guardian to easily find your device? In this video, we demonstrate how Zebra Guardian can help you find misplaced devices with ease. Discover how Device Guardian Access Management provides real-time status updates for available and in-use devices, offering an intuitive overview for quick identification of missing items. Learn how to initiate recovery mode by picking up another device from the Guardian cabinet and leveraging the Geiger-style counter.

Monitor the Performance of Your Node.js Fastify App with AppSignal

Fastify stands out among Node.js web frameworks for its obsessive focus on performance and boasts impressive benchmarks, with throughput often 2-3x higher than Express and other popular alternatives. But here's the paradox: without proper visibility, even applications with a good foundation will degrade over time as you add features and complexity.

LLM-powered insights into your tracing data: introducing MCP support in Grafana Cloud Traces

Distributed tracing data is a unique and powerful observability signal, allowing you to understand how your services interact and the relationships between them. Sometimes it can be difficult, however, to turn raw tracing data into actionable insights. This is exactly why we introduced Grafana Traces Drilldown, an application that lets you quickly investigate and visualize your tracing data through a simplified, queryless experience.

How HireVue Turned Cloud Cost Chaos Into A Competitive Edge

When you’re a global leader in AI-assisted hiring, speed matters. Not just in matching candidates to jobs, but in making the engineering and financial decisions that keep your platform running efficiently. For HireVue, fragmented infrastructure, manual processes, and sprawling spreadsheets turned cloud cost management into a time-consuming spelunking expedition.

Stop Trying To Cut Cloud Costs, Start Trying To Price AI Correctly

Most SaaS companies aren’t spending too much on AI. They’re just completely screwing up how they price it. You feel the budget pressure. The OpenAI and Anthropic bills keep climbing. Finance is starting to twitch. So the instinct is to cut. Trim back experiments. Cap usage. Beg your team to “optimize.” You can’t cost-cut your way out of a pricing failure though. And most of the time, that’s all this is — a pricing failure.