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last9

Stop Flying Blind: Synthetic Monitoring, Host heat-maps, and Process-Level Visibility

Jan 23, 2026 By Nishant Modak In Last9
January 2026 Release Here's a dirty secret about observability: most teams find out about outages from their customers. Not from their dashboards. Not from their alerts. From angry tweets and support tickets. The excuse is always the same: "We have metrics! We have dashboards! We even have that AI thing now!" And yet, somehow, your checkout endpoint has been returning 502s for forty-five minutes and you're learning about it from the VP of Sales who just got off a call with your biggest customer.
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honeycomb

AI in Production Is Growing Faster Than We Can Trust it

Jan 23, 2026 By Fahim Zaman In Honeycomb
Enterprise software has moved past the generative AI testing phase. Businesses with millions of daily users or workloads are no longer just prototyping LLMs in a vacuum. They’re directly wiring agentic efficiency into product interfaces and infrastructure to stay competitive. This wave is often compared to the spread of microservices in the past, but we aren’t just adding new dependencies and complexity.
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auvik

Top Education Technology Trends to Watch Through 2026

Jan 23, 2026 By Rebecca Grassing In Auvik
The education technology landscape is entering a period of consolidation and integration. Schools are moving past the online learning experimentation phase of recent years and focusing on technologies that deliver measurable improvements in teaching and learning outcomes. For IT professionals managing educational networks, understanding these shifts helps prioritize infrastructure investments and security protocols.
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Breaking Down IT Silos with OpManager Plus's Full-stack observability

Breaking Down IT Silos with OpManager Plus's Full-stack observability

Jan 22, 2026 By Sandhya Saravanan In ManageEngine
In today's complex and dynamic IT landscape, a single application relies on dozens of interconnected services, from physical servers to virtual machines, cloud instances, and third-party APIs. When something goes wrong, a traditional monitoring approach that focuses on individual components is no longer enough. This is where full-stack observability becomes critical. It's the ability to gain a holistic, real-time understanding of your entire technology stack, from the user experience all the way down to the underlying network infrastructure.
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dotcom-monitor

API Health Monitoring Explained: How to Detect Silent Failures That Health Checks Miss

Jan 22, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
APIs sit at the center of modern digital systems. They power mobile apps, enable partner integrations, and connect internal services across distributed architectures. When an API fails, the impact is immediate: broken user journeys, stalled transactions, and downstream systems that quietly stop working. That’s why API health monitoring is now a core reliability practice for modern engineering teams. The problem is that “API health” is often defined too narrowly.
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Observability for GenAI Applications (Grafana OpenTelemetry Community Call)

Jan 22, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
In this episode, we’re diving into observability for Generative AI apps. AI helps us write code and monitor applications in production - but how do we observe the AI itself? And how do we make sense of complex, non-deterministic AI systems? We’re joined by two great guests: Ishan Jain, working on GenAI observability and Luccas Quadros, working on Grafana Assistant. Together, they bring both platform-level insights and real-world perspectives.
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solarwinds

How to Scan for IP Address on a Network? - Ultimate Guide & 6 Best IP Scanners

Jan 22, 2026 By Staff Contributor In SolarWinds
Amid predictions that 39.42 billion devices will have internet connectivity by 2030, IP address management has become a fundamental housekeeping and security concern for any networking admin. As the Internet of Things (IoT) continues to endow more and more devices with smart capabilities, networking grows more complex, making IP-centered network security measures a business imperative.
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How to Use the Secure Vault in Uptime.com

Jan 22, 2026 By Uptime Website Monitoring In uptime
In this tutorial, we explore Uptime.com's Secure Vault and how to securely create, edit, and manage your credentials. Learn how to access the Vault, add new Vault Items including Username/Password pairs, Certificates, Single Secret Tokens, and Time-based One-Time Passwords (TOTP), and use them in HTTP(S), API, Transaction, and Page Speed checks. Discover enhanced security features, including 256-bit AES-GCM encryption and zero-trust credential storage. We also cover REST API integration, variable usage, and user permissions.
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