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Exoprise
We help you find and fix issues with your cloud apps fast. Exoprise is the leading solution provider for monitoring SaaS services like Microsoft 365, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce.com and more.
Sematext
Monitoring, log management, transaction tracing, and real user monitoring. Finally together!
NiCE IT Mgmt
From databases to servers, communication systems, operating systems and custom applications, NiCE provides the right application monitoring solutions and services.
Monitive
Monitive is an uptime monitoring service, where users sign up and input their website address, which we check every minute, from a random location around the world, and instantly notify them when their site is down.
EventSentry
EventSentry is an award-winning Hybrid SIEM which features real-time log, system health and network monitoring to proactively monitor networks and preemptively respond to threats.
ManageEngine
ManageEngine crafts comprehensive IT management software with a focus on making your job easier. Our 90+ products and free tools cover everything your IT needs, at prices you can afford.
Raygun
Raygun is a Software Intelligence Platform that gives companies visibility into software problems. Errors, crashes and slow loading pages and scripts affecting end users are automatically detected, enabling teams to build excellent user experiences.
Introducing Calico Load Balancer and Seamless VM-to-Kubernetes Migration
SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23, 2026 — Tigera, the creator and maintainer of Project Calico, today announced a major expansion of its Unified Network Security Platform for Kubernetes, aimed at helping enterprises consolidate infrastructure and accelerate the migration of legacy workloads to cloud-native platforms.
How OpenRouter and Grafana Cloud bring observability to LLM-powered applications
Chris Watts is Head of Enterprise Engineering at OpenRouter, building infrastructure for AI applications. Previously at Amazon and a startup founder. As large language models become core infrastructure for more and more applications, teams are discovering a familiar challenge in a new context: you can't improve what you can't see.
Autonomous IT: What It Is and How to Get Started
Autonomous IT is the operating model where systems detect, decide, and act so your engineers spend less time fighting fires and more time defining what ‘good’ looks like. On a typical day, a mid-size enterprise generates tens of thousands of alerts across on-prem infrastructure, multiple clouds, and AI workloads, including every endpoint. Most of them don’t need a human. A few of them do, and telling the difference, fast enough to matter, is where IT teams are losing ground.
Why AI Driven Automation Can't Wait
Operators today are navigating unprecedented complexity—rising costs, accelerating customer expectations, and increasingly dynamic networks. In this recent video interview, my colleague Kevin Wade and I explore why AI‑driven automation has shifted from a “nice‑to‑have” technology to a core business requirement for telecom operators and beyond.
Annotate traces to improve LLM quality with Datadog LLM Observability
LLM applications rarely crash. They degrade quietly. Once these applications are shipped to production, subtle quality failures become harder to catch with traditional signals. Tone shifts, hallucinated details, off-topic responses, and incomplete reasoning can emerge while latency and token usage look stable.
Explore Kubernetes with native OpenTelemetry data
Kubernetes environments generate a constant stream of signals across clusters, nodes, pods, and workloads. For teams that have standardized on OpenTelemetry (OTel), maintaining ownership of that data is critical. But in practice, many observability platforms require translation into vendor-specific data formats, leading to fragmented product experiences, blank dashboards, and uncertainty about data integrity.
Monitor Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications with Datadog
Many organizations rely on Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications to run core business workflows across finance, HR, and supply chain operations. Because these SaaS-based applications run on Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI), engineering teams have limited visibility into their performance. Without direct access to the underlying stack, they often lack the signals needed to detect regressions or investigate degraded user experience.
How to Communicate the Value of DEX Across Your Organization
For many EUC and Digital Workplace leaders, the challenge with digital employee experience (DEX) isn’t the technology, it’s building alignment. You can see the data. You know where friction exists. You can quantify disruption, productivity loss, and inefficiencies. But you struggle to achieve your targets, because you need buy in from other teams, and right now, they don’t want to hear anything about DEX. Security has different priorities. Application owners are focused on releases.
Internet Speed Monitoring - How to Proactively Test Your Internet Connections
Recent enhancements to eG Enterprise have added functionality to allow you to proactively test your internet speed with synthetic monitoring (“robot” tests that simulate real user activity). Using the new functionality you can proactively monitor internet speeds 24×7 from any location. The performance and quality of an Internet connection plays a major role in any IT environment. Use cases for this new functionality include.
Icinga Installation Guide - Part 1 - Getting started with a base Icinga Installation
Get up and running with Icinga 2 and Icinga Web in this step-by-step installation guide. In this video, we walk you through a complete base installation of Icinga, covering everything from setting up the database to accessing the web interface for the first time. This will help you get to the point of a working installation, especially if you're new to Icinga. We take you through the full process, including installing required components, configuring databases, enabling services, and completing the web setup wizard.