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Selecting the Best Enterprise Session Border Controller

A Session Border Controller (SBC) is the gatekeeper for modern real-time communications. It's not just a network device. It is a core component of your security, interoperability, and service quality strategy. An SBC secures the boundary between your enterprise network and the outside world, protecting against threats, enabling connectivity between disparate systems, and managing traffic to deliver a high-quality user experience. Think of it as a firewall optimized for voice communications.

Introducing MCP Connections: Netdata AI Now Reads From the Tools You Already Run

Netdata AI can now connect outward to the tools your team already runs, like GitHub, PagerDuty, Atlassian, or any custom MCP server, and read from them during an investigation. We call this MCP Connections. It’s the missing piece in the middle of every root-cause investigation: the alert tells you what changed, but the why is usually somewhere else entirely.

Netdata Network Topology: Live SNMP Discovery & Container Connection Maps

Netdata now builds live network topology maps directly in the agent: no scheduled scans, no stale picture the next morning. In this walkthrough, we cover both sides of the new Topology view: Network device discovery (SNMP): Container & process network connections.

Shipped: Put every AI task on the cheapest model that can actually do it

If your team builds with AI, someone is defaulting to the biggest model available (say, Fable) because it feels like the safe pick, and the safe pick is almost always the most expensive one. One over-powered choice looks harmless on its own, but multiplied across every prompt, agent, and workflow, and you get a big number on the P&L. All that, yet nobody chose which model on purpose. As we like to say, using a default is not a decision.