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observiq

July 2026 at Bindplane: A new pipeline editor, friendlier pricing, and a Blueprints library

Jul 15, 2026 By Adnan Rahic In ObservIQ
The new Advanced Pipeline Editor went live for all paid plans, we launched a public Blueprints library of ready-made pipeline patterns, we reworked plan pricing and raised the Free tier to 100 GB/day, and the source and processor catalog grew with an AWS Neuron source, an AWS CloudWatch metrics source, and a full set of XML processors. None of these are flashy on their own.
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motadata

9 Best Log Aggregation Tools for 2026

Jul 15, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
Every on-call engineer has lost an evening to some version of this. Something breaks; the fix is usually somewhere in the logs, and the logs are scattered everywhere: a dozen servers, a few containers, a couple of cloud services, none of them in one place. So, you SSH into one box, grep, get nothing, move to the next, and an hour later there are fifteen terminal tabs open and still no clear sequence of events. Log aggregation tools kill that scramble.
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meshiq

ActiveMQ Log Analysis & Diagnostics: The Expert Guide

Jul 14, 2026 By meshIQ In meshIQ
Senior engineers who are fast at diagnosing ActiveMQ incidents share one trait: they know exactly what they are looking for in the broker log before they open it. They know the PFC signature, the OOM warning pattern, the journal recovery sequence, and the connection drop format. For them, the log is not text to search through, it is a structured operational record that maps each entry to a specific broker state.
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observiq

The Advanced Pipeline Editor Is Here: One View, Every Pipeline

Jul 14, 2026 By Ryan Goins In ObservIQ
The Advanced Pipeline Editor is now live for all paid Bindplane plans. It's a rebuilt configuration editing experience that puts your whole config in a single interactive graph: every source, processor, router, and destination, across logs, metrics, and traces, in one view you can search, pan, zoom, and edit directly. If you've ever bounced between pipeline tabs trying to figure out where a processor sits in a config with a dozen sources and three destinations, this release is for you.
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mezmo

An SRE agent for production

Jul 14, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
AI has changed how software gets built. It hasn't changed how software gets run. Most of the AI money in software has gone into the IDE: code generation, copilots, developer assistants, faster pull requests. That work matters. But writing software is one slice of the lifecycle. The harder problem, and the more expensive one, is running that software in production. Production is where systems fail in ways nobody predicted. Incidents don't stay inside one service.
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mezmo

We built an SRE bot on AURA. Here's what we learned.

Jul 14, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
PagerDuty fires. You open the incident. Title, timestamp, nothing else. Whatever context exists is in someone's head, in a Slack thread from two weeks ago, or in a runbook nobody has touched since the last reorg. We got tired of that. So we put an AURA agent behind a Slack bot and pointed it at our own production environment.
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mezmo

Life after SaaS: Enabling the System of Context

Jul 14, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
By: Tucker Callaway, CEO at Mezmo The market keeps saying “SaaS is dead.” That’s probably true, but it’s also incomplete. What’s actually dying is the idea that value lives inside a vendor-controlled black box. The next era is about utilities: unlimited coding capacity and unlimited analytical capability. And if those two utilities are real, then the vendor model has to change.
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Cribl

A new way to SIEM

Jul 14, 2026 By Clint Sharp In Cribl
For years, security teams have been sold the same bargain: send in more data, buy more tools, tune more rules, and you'll be better protected. In practice, a lot of teams have ended up with the opposite. They're carrying more cost and more complexity, and they still don't have much confidence that their detections are actually working the way they should. That's the backdrop for why Cribl is acquiring CardinalOps.
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How Does a Configuration Item Fit Into Your CMDB?

Jul 14, 2026 By Motadata In Motadata
In this video, you'll learn what a Configuration Item (CI) is, how it forms the foundation of a CMDB, and why connecting CIs helps IT teams understand dependencies, improve visibility, and resolve incidents faster. Discover how CIs transform scattered asset data into a complete, connected view of your IT environment. Whether you're an IT Manager, IT Administrator, Service Desk Analyst, ITSM Professional, Infrastructure Engineer, or IT Operations Leader, this video explains why Configuration Items are essential for effective IT Service Management.
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