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If your IT team struggles to track devices, software licenses, warranties, and contracts, managing assets can become difficult. IT asset lifecycle management software helps you track every asset from purchase to retirement. It gives your team a clear record of: However, tools differ in their discovery methods, lifecycle workflows, license tracking, deployment options, and pricing. In this guide, we compare 7 IT asset lifecycle management software tools based on their features, limitations, and pricing.

How many devices are on your network right now? The usual answer is “check the spreadsheet”, and nobody is quite sure which copy is current. That's awkward during an outage and worse during an audit, or on the day a vendor advisory asks which switches run a vulnerable firmware build. Network inventory management retires that spreadsheet. In its place, you get a record that changes when the devices do, with hardware, addresses, VLANs and every router and switch config in one place.

Incidents are inevitable. Spending three meetings arguing over whether your incident management process is actually improving is slightly more avoidable. Either way, avoiding adverse conditions begins with one element: consistent measurement. For most teams, a handful of incident management KPIs provide a reliable picture of performance from the moment something goes wrong through to final resolution.

Today, we’re introducing Paige, PagerDuty’s SRE Agent. Built on over 16 years of operational data, Paige works as a member of operations, engineering, and DevOps teams, coordinating signal intelligence, incident management, and automation. Paige learns from every incident, so every incident improves the next response. Each resolution is written back into shared memory, making every response sharper than the last.

Being responsible for the reliability of services people count on every day isn’t easy. Customers expect everything to work, all the time, and when it doesn’t, someone has to answer for it. Whether you need to get yourself out of bed at 3 a.m. or step away from a family dinner, your job is to quickly diagnose the problem and fix it to ensure your operations get back up and running quickly before customers notice. But it doesn’t always go like that.

Many Grafana Cloud customers love what Alloy offers them, but we're also seeing a growing base of users who feel the same way about the OpenTelemetry Collector. We want to make it easy for customers to make the decision that makes the most sense, regardless of their preference.

When an application request slows down, a trace can show a database call. Finding the database query behind it can be tedious, requiring you to switch between traces and database telemetry, as well as match timestamps or query text by hand. In Grafana Cloud, the Database Observability app already provides a window into all of your database telemetry, including query samples, performance history, and explain plan.

Notion AI comes with the Business plan at $20 per member per month and with Enterprise at custom pricing, per Notion's pricing page; the standalone $10 add-on was retired in May 2025, and Free and Plus get a limited AI trial. Custom Agents add metered Notion credits at $10 per 1,000 monthly. Yearly billing saves up to 20%.

This release brings PostgreSQL monitoring in Redgate Monitor closer to what you already get for SQL Server. It adds backup monitoring and support for PostgreSQL on Windows, and AlloyDB joins the managed services we already cover.

If your Node app talks to MongoDB through the official mongodb driver, 7.8.0 is worth upgrading to before your next routine dependency pass. It’s a minor version by the number, but it carries two security fixes, and one of them changes how a feature you may already be using behaves.