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Enhance Network Performance Management With Next-Gen AIOps: Configuring Integration of DX Spectrum With DX Operational Observability

To unlock the power of observability and advanced analytics of AIOps, teams need to collect exceptional monitoring data, establish connections and correlations between the data, and understand context with the help of robust and current topological maps. Because modern networks often span on-premises, cloud, and hybrid infrastructures, monitoring their performance and troubleshooting issues can be difficult. These complex infrastructures often lead to observability gaps for network teams.

Drilldown apps: An improved queryless experience for faster insights into your observability data

See how we're improving the apps to help you quickly get insights into your logs, metrics, traces, and profiles, and find out why we changed the name from Explore apps to Drilldown. Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

Debugging a .NET Application with Loggly

As modern applications grow more complex, debugging becomes increasingly challenging. Applications consist of multiple parts which can generate enormous amounts of log data, making debugging difficult. SolarWinds Loggly can help store, manage, and sift through this data. To demonstrate, we’ll set up an application built on.NET Core 9.0 and MongoDB; then, we’ll walk through how to export its logs to Loggly.

Why Internet Performance Monitoring is the new health check for IT organizations

Monitoring has been part of our lives for centuries. We watch ourselves, our environment, and our habits to gain insights and make better decisions. Even the much-dreaded annual health check we line up for each year is just another facet of this age-old process. The goal is simple: spot small red flags now, before they balloon into bigger health complications later. It’s the same principle that has guided us for generations—keeping tabs, so we can correct course before trouble takes hold.

Nexthink Recognized in G2's 2025 Best Software Awards

We are honoured to announce that G2 has recognized Nexthink as a leading software company in EMEA in their 2025 Best Software Awards. This achievement builds on our ongoing recognition from G2, where we’ve been named a Category Leader consecutively since 2021. Our success is only possible because of the support we receive from our incredible DEX community.

DORA Compliance - An Opportunity for MSPs

For Managed Service Providers (MSPs) in the EU, who serve financial organizations, DORA regulatory compliance is a hot topic. The DORA (Digital Operational Resilience Act) is a new regulation that came into force on Jan 17th, 2025, aimed at ensuring the operational resilience of financial entities in the EU, focusing on technology risk management and minimizing disruptions in critical services.

Intelligent Alerting with RapidSpike and ilert Integration

When it comes to website performance and uptime, every second counts. Businesses rely on tools like RapidSpike to monitor their digital presence, ensuring websites and applications run smoothly. However, effective alerting and incident management are just as critical as monitoring itself. That’s where ilert comes in.

Grafana Drilldown apps: the improved queryless experience formerly known as the Explore apps

When we introduced the Explore apps suite for metrics, logs, traces, and profiles last year at ObservabilityCON 2024, our goal was simple: offer a queryless, point-and-click experience so you can quickly find insights in your observability data—no queries or complicated syntax required. Our commitment to that goal remains unchanged, but we’re excited to announce that the Explore apps have a new name: Grafana Drilldown.