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AI gone too far: Is it time to hit the brakes?

Jul 29, 2025 By Alsherin In ManageEngine

Without even realizing it, AI has become a part of our lives—more than we could ever imagine. Things have gotten a lot easier lately. A LOT. Which sounds like a good thing, right? Well… maybe not.

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IT teams overconfident in resilience as outages still consume a quarter of their time

Jul 29, 2025 By SolarWinds In SolarWinds

New SolarWinds report suggests IT leaders underestimate the impact of broken processes and limited staff.

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AIOps for SAP: From Ground to Cloud

Jul 29, 2025 By Avantra Team In Avantra

Anyone working in the SAP market in 2025 is aware of two big topics: migration to cloud-based ERP and the end of many long-used tools for managing SAP operations including Focused Run, Landscape Manager and Solution Manager. Both are impossible to ignore. Cloud-based ERP presents a new era of business software possibilities, and with it the opportunities and complexities of migration, transformation, and leveraging the elastic capacity and scalability of cloud-based designs. But right behind it, the question becomes "how are we going to run and manage this?"

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Automatically Catch Failed HTTP Requests in your Playwright Tests!

Jul 29, 2025 By Checkly In Checkly

In this video, Stefan (Playwright Ambassador) dives into his favorite topic, Playwright fixtures, and shows how to set up automatic network monitoring in your Playwright end-to-end tests to catch failed HTTP requests (404s, 500s) to maintain high-quality standards.

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Data Observability: Build confidence in the data life cycle

Jul 29, 2025 By Datadog In Datadog

Datadog Data Observability provides a complete solution with quality checks (e.g., volume, row changes, freshness), custom SQL-based monitors, anomaly detection, column-level lineage across systems like Snowflake and Tableau, full pipeline visibility, and targeted alerts when data issues arise.

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Disposable Code Is Here to Stay, but Durable Code Is What Runs the World

Jul 29, 2025 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb

Every day I seem to run into yet another post with someone solemnly opining that “writing code has never been the hardest part of software engineering. And hey, that’s smashing. As an engineer from the ops/infra/SRE side of the house, I feel like I’ve been saying this my whole career. (Is there anything more satisfying than being proven right in public? Not in my book.) So, which is it?

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Why Your Loki Metrics Are Disappearing (And How to Fix It)

Jul 29, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9

Grafana Loki is up and running, log ingestion looks healthy, and dashboards are rendering without issues. But when you query logs from a few weeks ago, the data's missing. This is a recurring problem for many teams using Loki in production: while the system handles short-term log visibility well, it often lacks the retention guarantees developers expect for historical analysis and incident review.

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New in OTel: Auto-Instrument Your Apps with the OTel Injector

Jul 29, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

As distributed systems scale, maintaining manual instrumentation across services quickly becomes unsustainable. The OTel Injector addresses this by automatically attaching OpenTelemetry instrumentation to applications, no code changes needed. This blog covers how the OTel Injector works, how it integrates with Linux environments, and how to set it up for consistent telemetry across your stack.

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Hands-On with Continuous Observability

Jul 29, 2025 By Johan Kraft (PhD) In Percepio

Ask any embedded developer about their worst debugging experience, and chances are you’ll hear stories of unreproducible bugs, late-night watchdog resets, or CI test failures with no trace. Traditional tools often leave us blind at the exact moment we need insight.

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What is Grafana Cloud? Fully Managed Observability Built on Open Standards | Grafana Labs

Jul 29, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana

Grafana Cloud helps teams detect, investigate, and resolve incidents faster—thanks to AI, open standards, and seamless integrations with OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Salesforce, and more. See how it all works in this live demo of a simulated e-commerce outage.

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