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Automated Alert Triage: Route Alerts to the Root-Cause Team

Nov 4, 2026 By Last9 In Last9

Rule-based routing pages the service that errored. Build a small triage service that reads the alert webhook, finds the origin span in your traces and pages the team that owns it. Last9 is an observability platform built for high-cardinality telemetry. It unifies logs, metrics, and traces with native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support, real-time alerting, and long-term retention.

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Wide Events vs Metrics, Logs and Traces: What Observability 2.0 Costs

Nov 4, 2026 By Sejal Pandey In Last9

Wide events move observability cost instead of removing it. See what each signal is billed in, which question each answers cheapest, and how to size spend against cloud spend. Sejal Pandey works on content and growth at Last9, writing about observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

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Data Residency in Observability: A Security Review for Your Own Cloud

Nov 4, 2026 By Last9 In Last9

A data residency security review for observability in your own cloud account: vendor access, connection direction, PII redaction and egress, with what Last9 documents. Last9 is an observability platform built for high-cardinality telemetry. It unifies logs, metrics, and traces with native OpenTelemetry and Prometheus support, real-time alerting, and long-term retention.

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Troubleshoot traffic flow with Sankey analysis

Nov 4, 2026 By solarwindsinc In SolarWinds

New Traffic Path Analysis view shows Sankey visualizations for the flow traffic across your environment.

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Search Sentry in Plain English

Nov 3, 2026 By Sentry In Sentry

Did you know you can search your Sentry data the way you'd ask a teammate? In this video, I use plain English to query traces, metrics and logs in Sentry's Explore pages, and Sentry turns each question into a real query for me. Using my skateboard parts store as the example, I ask three questions: For each one, Sentry picks the filter, the visualization, the group-by and the sort order. I didn't need to know the span operation, the metric name or the exact log message. Once you have the result, you can add it to a dashboard or turn it into a monitor so you keep an eye on it.

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What's New in VictoriaMetrics Cloud Q3 2026? VictoriaTraces, a Revamped Overview and Monitoring, Alerting for Logs and Traces, and a new Beta coming soon

Nov 3, 2026 By JGS Jose Gomez-Selles In VictoriaMetrics

Q3 2026 has been one of the greatest quarters for VictoriaMetrics Cloud, and that is thanks to the whole team, including open source, of course. The big milestone is that VictoriaTraces is now part of VictoriaMetrics Cloud, which means that the full VictoriaStack lives in one managed place, with a single bill and the same experience users already know.

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Innovation Week: Day 1 Full Video

Nov 3, 2026 By Honeycomb In Honeycomb

Watch all sessions from Day 1 of Honeycomb's Innovation Week in November 2026. Includes keynote from Christine Yen, Dormain's panel with RedMonk, AWS, and Checkly, Q&A with Charity Majors, a Team Agents demo with Jessitron and MartinDotNet, and a customer spotlight featuring Robert Goldsmith from Cruise.co.uk.

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Pushing metric concurrency, cardinality, compute and retention limits with $1000 of infrastructure

Nov 3, 2026 By Chris Cooney In Coralogix

We gave five metrics backends the same budget, the same week of data and the same ten queries, then ran those queries at rising concurrency. At one query at a time, the open source engines looked strong. Under concurrency, two of them stopped answering, and the rest slowed down by an order of magnitude.

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Why AI-Ready IT Operations Need More Than a Traditional CMDB Now?

Nov 3, 2026 By david.arrowsmith In Interlink

Configuration Management Databases (CMDBs) have long played an important role in IT Service Management, providing a structured record of technology assets, their configurations and relationships. For enterprises managing complex IT environments, they remain a valuable foundation for understanding infrastructure and supporting operational processes.

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Finding performance wins in our own traces with a coding agent

Nov 3, 2026 By Scott Cooper In Sentry

For the last few weeks I’ve used a coding agent to find and fix backend performance issues in Sentry, starting from the traces Sentry sends to itself. Most of the fixes only changed a line or two. But together, they removed hundreds of millions of queries a week, and some expensive lookups became hundreds or thousands of times faster (more details on that below).

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