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Why is it so difficult to answer the age-old question CFOs are asking, "What's the real cost of delivering this traffic?" Complex billing structures and cost modeling are only part of it. Lauren Basile joins Phillip Gervasi to discuss turning network telemetry into financial insight in the latest episode of Telemetry Now.

Don’t let expired certificates put your organization at risk! Progress WhatsUp Gold makes it easy to discover, manage, and automate certificate lifecycles across your network. With powerful automation from Progress Infrastructure solutions, you can rotate and manage certificates without a manual routine to maintain compliance and security. Schedule updates, push certificates to thousands of nodes and maintain governance with built-in traceability. Experience simplicity, scalability and seamless integration with Progress-powered solutions.

You can give AI agents everywhere fingers & eyes into your tool or service, by implementing an MCP (Model Context Protocol) server. It’s a great idea! It’s also a new kind of design and engineering. Jessica describes how it’s different from implementing an API or a GUI, and why it’s more exciting than either.

In this video, you’ll learn how to scrape Prometheus endpoints with the OpenTelemetry Collector’s Prometheus receiver and send metrics to Splunk Observability Cloud. We’ll walk through configuring three common data sources (a Python Flask app, node_exporter for host metrics, and the NGINX Prometheus exporter), show how to enrich metrics with resource attributes, and build simple charts in Splunk Observability Cloud. You’ll see how centralized scraping and consistent tagging make it easy to manage and visualize Prometheus metrics in Splunk Observability Cloud.

Uptrace is your single source of truth for monitoring, understanding, and optimizing complex distributed systems. Proven in production for over five years and trusted by more than a thousand installations worldwide, it lets you see your system like never before. What makes the difference is that Uptrace is pure OpenTelemetry, built natively from day one. This isn't a translation layer—it's a direct connection that eliminates friction and ensures zero vendor lock-in. Your homepage serves as your command center, providing complete visibility across your stack at a glance.

The Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3 speeds up metadata queries and tag value lookups for faster, more responsive UIs. The Distinct Value Cache in InfluxDB 3 delivers sub-30 ms lookups for tag values and series metadata, making exploratory queries and UI dropdowns quick and responsive. By reducing latency on these common operations, it allows developers to build real-time monitoring and analytics tools without extra complexity.