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The best tool to track, analyze, and manage errors at scale? Rollbar tops our list.

Even though the shift to the cloud has slowed recently as many businesses are moving certain workloads back on-premise, Microsoft Exchange remains one cloud-based service that most organizations continue to embrace – despite its frequent outages. This doesn’t come as a surprise, as Microsoft has successfully devolved on-prem Exchange Server – the only viable alternative – into an unfriendly dragon that even experienced sysadmins won’t touch with a 10 ft pole.

Observability pricing often seems reasonable at the outset, but many organizations discover their real complexity only as environments scale and usage patterns change. As environments grow more complex and hybrid by default, many organizations struggle with rising costs, fragmented tools, and pricing models that complicate cost predictability and long-term planning.

Security data collection has become a first-class architectural concern for modern SOCs. Once collection is treated as a dedicated layer, separate from analytics and detection, the next question becomes practical: how should telemetry be collected in a way that aligns with this architecture? In the previous article, we examined why this shift occurred. Here, we focus on how different collection models (agent-based, agentless, and hybrid) fit into modern security data collection architectures.

Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about? I’ll tell you my answer. In retrospect, I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. On those grounds, it failed. Not because software engineers weren’t good at their jobs, or didn’t care enough. It failed because the technology wasn’t good enough.

The AI sidekick called Dossinth I'm building is starting to take shape. So far, it became a moderately useful CRM, with a nice dashboard, and event log, daily briefing (which I am also receiving by email), account management and knowledge base. It's less AI and more CRM. For now. Here's a quick tour...

TLDR: Runtime Context is live, execution-level access to a running production system. It lets engineers and AI agents ask precise questions of running code and get answers immediately, without redeploying or interrupting users. This is the new baseline for reliability.

Earlier this year we launched Grafana Cloud Fleet Management to address the pain that comes with managing scores of telemetry collectors across departments and environments. We've been excited to see how organizations are using it to manage collectors at scale, but we've also heard from users who aren't sure how Fleet Management fits with their existing infrastructure-as-code tooling. The good news is Fleet Management is designed specifically to complement—not replace—tools like Terraform.

Cost-Intelligent Observability shifts your organization into a proactive and collaborative cloud cost management powerhouse.