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In January, we announced that Grafana Labs had assumed maintenance of the business intelligence (BI) plugins created by Volkov Labs, and committed to a six-month maintenance period. Today, we’re sharing an update: we're extending our maintenance commitment through the end of 2026. As announced earlier this year, that commitment includes maintaining compatibility with recent Grafana releases while handling bug fixes, security updates, and community contributions on a best-effort basis.

On June 17, 2025, AT&T permanently shut down its email-to-text and text-to-email gateway. Emails sent to @txt.att.net and @mms.att.net stopped reaching phones, and any automated workflow that relied on that address went dark overnight (AT&T support) . For IT Ops, MSPs, facilities and energy ops and incident response teams, this was not a minor inconvenience.

Chelsea and I recently wrote a guide on how we monitor Claude Code usage internally with Bindplane. TLDR; We remotely manage a Bindplane Distribution of the OpenTelemetry Collector (BDOT) that runs on every engineer's laptop. This setup is great, but it has one downside. Sending to Google Cloud Monitoring, Swarmia, and any other destination directly from an engineer’s laptop is limited to local processing. You can’t get the benefit of centralized routing and processing on a gateway.

An employee's notice period is the highest-risk window for data theft. How to detect and stop SharePoint and Microsoft 365 data exfiltration by departing staff in 2026.

The security data pipeline platform has become the most strategically important layer in the modern SOC, and in the last twelve months, the largest security vendors have paid to own it. CrowdStrike acquired Onum for $290 million, SentinelOne acquired Observo AI for $225 million, and Palo Alto Networks acquired Chronosphere for $3.35 billion. The layer that sits between your data sources and your security tools now decides what every downstream tool receives, at what cost, and in what shape.