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Sovereign observability: How UAE data residency powers resilient digital economies

Cloud observability is a must for IT teams operating in modern digital economies. It allows administrators to see inside complex systems, understand how each component behaves under real conditions, and act before users or regulators feel the impact. In simple terms, observability transforms digital infrastructure from a black box into a transparent, accountable, and resilient system.

Accelerate incident resolution with Applications Manager's AI alert summary

Leverage AI to understand critical incidents in your IT infrastructure! With Applications Manager's AI driven alarm summaries, understand incident cascades to dig down to root cause of performance issues. Reduce cognitive labour and unlock actionable intelligence with the latest version.

Complexity to Clarity: Why Enterprises Are Choosing Progress WhatsUp Gold Over SolarWinds

A clearer path for enterprise administrators with simpler deployment, unified visibility and predictable costs. If SolarWinds feels too complex, costly or rigid to scale, it might be time to look for a new network monitoring solution. In this session, Progress WhatsUp Gold experts help enterprise admins achieve unified visibility and faster time to value without module or architecture sprawl, using transparent device-based licensing.

InfluxDB 3 Core vs. Enterprise

In this video, Senior Developer Advocate Cole Bowden walks you through the key similarities and differences that exist in InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise. As an open source offering, Core thrives at data collection on the edge and providing real-time insights into fresh data, while Enterprise includes support, compaction for performant historical analysis over wide windows, better scaling and security for enterprise-scale operations.

OpenTelemetry Deep Dive: Standards, Tracing, and the Future of Observability | Big Tent S3E6

OpenTelemetry co-founder Ted Young joins Grafana’s Big Tent podcast to explain how observability evolved beyond logs, metrics, and traces. Learn why tracing is just logging with context, how OpenTelemetry became a standard, and what’s next for zero-touch instrumentation and AI-driven observability.

What Is Web Transaction Monitoring?

Quick Answer: Web transaction monitoring is a type of synthetic monitoring that uses scripted browser tests to simulate and validate multi-step user workflows, such as logins or checkouts. It proactively checks application functionality and performance from end-to-end, ensuring critical user journeys work correctly before customers are impacted.

NIS2 and CER Serve a Broader Purpose Than Cybersecurity - The 5 Biggest Risks You Need to Address Now

The European directives NIS2 (Network and Information Security Directive 2) and Critical Entities Resilience (CER) Directive have rapidly sharpened the conversation around digital resilience. While many organizations initially viewed these directives as an extension of their cybersecurity obligations, it is becoming increasingly clear that much more is at stake. These directives require a strategic transformation in how organizations manage risks, processes, and responsibilities.

The evolution of OpenTelemetry: A deep dive with co-founder Ted Young

Sometimes the biggest challenges in software aren’t about code — they’re about consensus. What do we call things? What do we standardize? And how do you evolve a system that thousands of companies depend on without breaking everything along the way?