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Smarter Custom Metrics for Redgate Monitor: Additional Alert Text Query

This is a guest post from Nick Coombe. Redgate Monitor's built-in metrics cover the most common database pressure points out of the box. However, every estate has a few KPIs and metrics that are specific to the business, and users can create custom metrics to track those signals and receive an alert when they cross a threshold.

Cisco and Megaport: Redefining the Edge of Modern Networking

Explore four Cisco and Megaport Virtual Edge solutions that bring secure, high-performance networking closer to users and clouds. Enterprises have quickly outgrown the constraints of legacy WAN architectures. As cloud and SaaS dominate and users grow more distributed, rigid infrastructure models—complete with backhaul-heavy designs and unpredictable internet performance—no longer work.

Escalation policies for low-priority incidents

Teams put a lot of thought into how critical incidents are handled. Low-priority incidents usually don’t get the same attention. And without a proper escalation policy, they just land in a shared channel, waiting for someone to acknowledge. Setting up a clear policy for them is worth doing. Not because they need the same urgency as a critical incident, but because having a defined path for every incident makes the whole system more reliable.

Managing AI Models and Datasets with Harness Artifact Registry | AI/ML Artifact Management

Building AI applications often means juggling multiple models, scattered datasets, and version chaos across local systems. But what if you could bring it all together — securely and efficiently — in one place? In this walkthrough, Shibam Dhar, DevRel Engineer at Harness, demonstrates how Harness Artifact Registry makes it easy to manage and govern your AI/ML assets — from models and datasets to prompts and agents — with built-in support like Hugging Face and generic registry types.

Resolve Webinar: Automating Joiner, Mover, and Leaver Workflows with Agentic Orchestration

Still managing Joiner, Mover, Leaver workflows with tickets and manual handoffs? It’s time to automate them. In this fast-paced session, we show how enterprises use agentic AI and orchestration to eliminate repetitive JML tickets, enforce policy automatically, and deliver secure access from day one. Powered by Resolve’s Agentic Resolution Fabric, AI agents coordinate knowledge, automation, and technician assist to provision, modify, and revoke access without manual triage. Faster onboarding. Zero-delay changes. Audit-ready offboarding.

Resolve's Agents of IT podcast - Ep. 13 - Ari's Secret Fortune (500)

In this episode of Agents of IT, we reflect on scale, strategy, and what it really takes to transform IT inside the world’s largest enterprises. Ari shares lessons from his work with Fortune 500 organizations, breaking down what separates automation pilots from true operational change. From navigating enterprise complexity to driving executive alignment, this conversation explores how large organizations move from reactive ticket management to intelligent, agent-driven operations.

The story behind Konstruct: Lessons learned scaling GitOps

In 2024, Civo acquired Konstruct (formerly Kubefirst) to reinforce our commitment to simplifying cloud computing complexities. When this acquisition was made, it began a whole new chapter for the team behind Konstruct. Over the years, we assembled our team by working with a community of thousands of engineers in what can be a very complex cloud native environment. We were fortunate to join forces with Civo as they aligned with our cloud native and portable vision.

Native Nix Support in Artifactory: The Binary Cache for the Enterprise

The “works on my machine” era is officially over. Nix is changing the way we think about software by treating packages as functional, immutable values, ensuring that a build works exactly the same way every time, on every machine. But while Nix excels on a local laptop, scaling that level of reproducibility across a global enterprise has historically been a challenge.

Getting started with Windsurf and CircleCI

AI coding assistants are transforming how developers write software. Tools like Windsurf can generate entire modules, refactor complex code, and fix bugs in seconds. But speed comes with a tradeoff: AI-generated code can introduce subtle bugs, security vulnerabilities, or breaking changes that slip past even experienced developers. That’s where continuous integration comes in. CI acts as a safety net, automatically testing every change before it reaches production.