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Enhancing authentication security: Inside Microsoft's open source contribution to Grafana

When Microsoft engineers went looking for a modern visualization platform to help track critical signals and make quicker decisions, Grafana emerged as the clear favorite. But there was just one hitch: the available authentication methods didn’t quite meet their needs.

Here's how to add business data to logs from retail endpoints | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Some sources simply do not generate data-rich logs. Retail endpoints that are older or run on proprietary services, for example, very often produce logs without the kinds of data that are needed to perform useful business analytics. So, what can you do?

Coralogix | Magic Quadrant 2025

Today marks an exciting moment for all of us at Coralogix. We’re proud to share that Gartner has named us a Visionary in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. This recognition, we believe, reflects what we’ve been building toward for years: an observability platform that delivers scale, cost-efficiency, AI-powered insights, and tangible customer success.

Grafana Labs is a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

For the second year in a row, Grafana Labs has been named a Leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms — and this year, we’re proud to be recognized as the furthest in Completeness of Vision. In this video, Grafana Labs CTO Tom Wilkie shares what this recognition means, why our scores for execution and vision both improved, and how it reflects years of building a truly open, composable observability stack.

The Inconvenient Truth About AI Ethics in Observability

Let's be honest: most conversations about AI ethics sound like they're happening in a boardroom, not an ops room. But here's the thing, when you're using AI to make sense of your telemetry data, ethics isn't some abstract concept. It's the difference between insights you can trust and algorithmic noise that leads you down the wrong path. The uncomfortable reality? Your AI is only as ethical as the messiest, most biased piece of telemetry data you feed it. And if you think your data is clean, well...

What Are Traces? A Developer's Guide to Distributed Tracing

One of the most common challenges in modern software engineering today is understanding how requests flow through applications. As system architectures shift to favor widely distributed, cloud-native designs, keeping track of how an application processes user actions is more difficult than ever. A single user action may trigger events processed in dozens of backend services. Traces are helping software developers today with this challenge.

Datadog named Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms

We are thrilled to announce that, for the fifth consecutive year, Datadog has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Observability Platforms. We believe that this recognition reflects our continued focus on helping customers observe, secure, and act on everything that matters across their technology stack.

What is Log Loss and Cross-Entropy

You're building a classification model, and your framework throws around terms like "log loss" and "cross-entropy loss." Are they the same thing? When should you use binary cross-entropy versus categorical cross-entropy? What about focal loss? This blog breaks down these loss functions with practical examples and real-world implementations.

Cloud Log Management: A Developer's Guide to Scalable Observability

As systems move to microservices, serverless, and multi-cloud setups, debugging gets harder. You’re no longer dealing with a single log file; you’re looking at logs from dozens of services, running across different environments. Traditional debugging methods like SSH-ing into servers or adding print statements don’t scale in these environments. Cloud log management tools help by collecting logs from all your services into one place.