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For many years, I've spoken with power users in IT departments who love the insights they get from Nexthink. They can run complex queries, create dashboards, drill down into the network view, or implement new automations across thousands of digital workplaces. I've also noticed that these same teams have increasingly asked us to share the power of Nexthink with other IT functions, HR teams, or even employees.

IT infrastructures in the modern business landscape never stand still. The backbone that keeps the organization and its business operations running is expected to relentlessly scale with the newer technologies and challenges that are thrown in while keeping business functions online without disruptions. IT infrastructure transcends from networks and servers to applications and cloud environments, where every component is as crucial as the other. And the margin of error is very small.

Catchpoint has officially crossed a major milestone: over 3,000 intelligent agents now power our Global Agent Network. This isn’t just a big number. It underscores our commitment to helping our users monitor what matters, from where it matters most: the end user. With agents deployed across 105 countries, 346 cities, and every layer of the Internet stack, Catchpoint now offers the broadest and deepest visibility into user experience available today.

In Honeycomb’s Customer Architects team, we work with the full spectrum of team, scope, and budget sizes. “The data isn’t valuable enough” is something we’re always dismayed to hear, but we hear it often enough. The thing is, as much as we want it to not be true, no product or tool can magically maximize the value of your telemetry data—at least not without gobs of human input, oversight, and review.

We launched Adaptive Logs last year to help you optimize your log volumes and costs in Grafana Cloud, and we’ve been hard at work ever since making improvements based on your feedback. Over the past couple of months, we’ve delivered several new features to help reduce toil, apply recommendations with precision, and—what we’re most excited about—confidently optimize your log ingestion while still providing peace of mind to your end users!

A reliable Internet connection is the lifeblood of nearly every organization. From seamless video conferences to uninterrupted data transfers and smooth online operations, the modern business world depends on a steady flow of data. However, as IT professionals know all too well, even the most robust networks can encounter connectivity issues that disrupt productivity and cause frustration.

We’re excited to announce that Lumigo Copilot is now integrated with Microsoft Teams, extending the power of our AI observability assistant beyond Slack and into your Teams-based workflows. Until now, Lumigo Copilot worked exclusively within Lumigo’s UI and Slack, where teams instantly ask questions about issues, receive AI-generated observability insights, and take action without leaving their collaboration space.

Tracking the International Space Station (ISS) as it orbits Earth is not just a captivating endeavor for space enthusiasts, it's also an excellent demonstration of how real-time data collection and visualization can be achieved using readily available open-source tools. To monitor the ISS location and trajectory, we'll demonstrate how to set up a simple cron job to fetch it's coordinates every five minutes, parse the data into a suitable format, and visualize it on a dashboard.