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Agentic AIOps in Action: LogicMonitor, IBM, and Red Hat Deliver Self-Healing IT

Your most skilled engineers shouldn’t be spending nights and weekends piecing together root causes of outages. Yet many organizations still rely on manual incident response across sprawling hybrid and multi-cloud environments. The result: slower resolution times, frustrated customers and lost revenue that can reach up to $1 million per hour according to IDC. At LogicMonitor, we believe the answer isn’t just better monitoring. It is systems that can heal themselves.

A closer look at Grafana k6 browser: alignment with Playwright, modern features for frontend testing, and what's next

Over the years, we’ve seen our community embrace Grafana k6 browser as a key component of their frontend testing strategies. By helping collect frontend web vitals, capture custom metrics, and simulate user actions like clicking buttons or completing forms, the module offers teams a deeper understanding of performance and availability from their end users’ point of view.

Inside the InfluxDB 3 Plugin Ecosystem

Companies today face growing pressure to manage and analyze massive flows of time series data, from IoT sensors to cloud-native infrastructure. Storing this information is relatively straightforward. The greater obstacle is keeping it useful and consistent while balancing a wide range of tools and modern technology platforms that continue to evolve.

What the 2025 DORA Report Teaches Us About Observability and Platform Quality

The 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development Report delivers a critical insight for technology leaders: AI is fundamentally an amplifier, not a solution. It magnifies the strengths of high-performing organizations with robust observability while exposing the dysfunctions of struggling ones. For organizations that have rushed to adopt AI coding assistants all while expecting immediate productivity gains, this finding demands a strategic pivot.

When BGP becomes UX: The inside story of a SaaS routing decision gone wrong (or right)

Most operations teams trust their green dashboards. If the internal monitoring says everything is healthy, the app must be fine, right? But as the Internet keeps proving, what’s green inside the firewall can look red for customers outside of it. Sometimes, a single change in how web traffic moves can suddenly slow logins, disrupt websites, or hurt business results, even if everything looks fine inside.

September 2025 - Early Warning Signals

In September 2025, StatusGator Early Warning Signals identified dozens of outages across cloud, fintech, and education platforms. Many of these incidents were detected before providers acknowledged them — and in some cases, without any acknowledgment at all. We’ve highlighted several of the most significant outages as featured incidents, followed by a list of additional disruptions reported throughout the month.

Reality Bytes: Our Everyday AI Use (Personal & Professional)

The Reality Bytes team is back together again! Tim, Tom, Megan, Dina and Sean swap stories of how AI has reshaped their personal and professional lives and habits over the past year—from eerie chatbot encounters and creative breakthroughs to frustrations with hallucinations and the hunt for the true “human fingerprint.”

How to know your data with Cribl's Ed Bailey and VisiCore Technology's Paul Stout.

Classifying and tagging data is the key to automating pipelines and improving visibility across the enterprise. We’ll share both the technical and business impact of truly knowing your data, and why Cribl makes it possible. Plus, we’ll talk CriblCon and why we’re excited to see you there.

Monitor Slurm with Datadog

Slurm (Simple Linux Utility for Resource Management) is an open source workload management system used to schedule jobs and manage resources for high-performance computing (HPC) Linux clusters. It ensures that jobs and resources are scheduled fairly and efficiently and is scalable across large clusters, an issue that native Linux process management tools struggle with.